Engineering Manager - Client Group

Virta Health

1d•$230,000 - $250,000•Remote

About The Position

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. Current treatment approaches aren't working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. As a Senior Manager, Engineering you'll set the technical direction for the team, making tradeoffs between technical investments and product work, and communicating strategy transparently to your team and to leadership. You'll act as a critical technical leader across backend, frontend, data, and third-party systems taking holistic ownership of complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, and driving cross-functional alignment and engineering excellence to improve the billing, accounting and member-to-product eligibility experience along with components of the enrollment experience. Ownership is a key quality for this team. You will help shape product direction by developing a deep understanding of our internal and external customers. The ideal candidate will be driven to track projects to successful completion and beyond, taking initiative to work with other teams and functions to ensure your team's work reaches users and drives outcomes. You'll lead a group of talented engineers, helping the team deliver business impact while staying open to change through constant experimentation. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science and operations on programs that empower the team to iterate quickly while measuring outcomes and establishing impact to our customers. If you enjoy collaborating with technical and nontechnical partners on a product with real-world impact, this is the role for you.

Requirements

5+ years of experience managing and providing technical leadership to engineering teams, with a proven track record of hiring, coaching, or developing other engineering managers or team leads.
Deep technical expertise across backend, frontend, data, and integrations to third-party systems, with strong familiarity in building distributed services using Python and/or Go.
Experience taking holistic ownership of complex transactional systems, specifically in domains like billing, financial accounting, membership eligibility, or customer enrollment.
Track record of building, mentoring, and scaling highly diverse, inclusive, and high-performing engineering teams.
Can motivate and instill a strong sense of ownership in your team.
Are able to thrive in a heavily cross-functional environment and drive projects to completion regardless of the organizational structure.
Work well with product partners and help set the product vision for an ambiguous project.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a HIPAA-compliant or similarly regulated environment (fintech, health tech, etc.).

Responsibilities

Set the technical direction across backend, frontend, data, and third-party systems, balancing critical technical investments with new product delivery.
Recruit, mentor, and retain a talented team of engineers while actively coaching, growing, and scaling engineering managers or team leads on your team.
Take holistic ownership of complex, high-impact systems spanning billing, accounting, member eligibility, and enrollment, defining durable roadmaps to drive strategic outcomes.
Partner closely with engineering, product, data science, and operations to align on key programs, measure impact, and empower the team to iterate rapidly through experimentation.
Maintain a careful balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping software quickly to drive immediate user value.
Instill a spirit of continuous improvement across the team's codebase, systems architecture, and engineering processes.