Senior Software Engineer, Activation

Virta Health

19h • 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 Software Engineer on the Activation team, you’ll own some of the most critical and complex problems in Virta’s growth funnel—how we guide members from initial signup to their first meaningful health outcomes. This is a high-impact, high-leverage space where small improvements to conversion, speed, or engagement can unlock massive business and clinical outcomes. You’ll design and build systems that reduce friction in enrollment, and empower the next evolution in our scale. This role is uniquely interesting because it sits at the intersection of product, operations, and applied AI—combining experimentation, real-time decisioning, and LLM-powered development workflows to rapidly ship and iterate on experiences that directly impact our members’ lives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production systems, with strong backend fundamentals in Go and/or Python
• Proven ability to take ambiguous problems, define solutions, and drive execution with measurable impact
• Experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, including APIs, asynchronous/event-driven architectures, and distributed workflows
• Strong product and business intuition—you understand how technical decisions impact user experience and company outcomes
• Proficiency with modern AI-assisted development workflows and a mindset of leveraging them to move faster and build better

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver complex, ambiguous projects across the enrollment and early member journey, from problem definition through execution and iteration
• Design and evolve scalable backend systems that power enrollment workflows, reduce time-to-enroll, and enable operational automation
• Partner closely with product, design, data, and operations to identify high-impact opportunities and translate them into technical solutions
• Build and maintain integrations with internal and external systems (e.g., clinical platforms, lab vendors, partner APIs), ensuring reliability, observability, and data consistency across boundaries
• Lead technical decision-making for your team, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Identify and address cross-team dependencies, technical risks, and scaling challenges before they become bottlenecks
• Contribute to and elevate engineering standards, including code quality, system design, and developer experience
• Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader within the team, influencing beyond your immediate scope
• Leverage modern AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows to accelerate delivery and improve engineering productivity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees