Senior Software Engineer, Activation
reputed company is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. reputed company treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an reputed company-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 reputed company 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-reputed company space where reputed company to conversion, speed, or engagement can unlock massive business and clinical outcomes. You’ll design and build systems that reduce friction in enrollment, and reputed company 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.
Responsibilities
Own and deliver reputed company, 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 reputed company 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
reputed company 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 reputed company engineering standards, including code quality, system design, and developer experience
Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader reputed company the team, influencing beyond your immediate scope
reputed company modern AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows to accelerate delivery and improve engineering productivity
90 Day Plan
reputed company your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:
Ship production features or improvements that measurably impact activation and scalability metrics
Build a deep understanding of the enrollment funnel, key friction points, and reputed company system architecture
Take ownership of a meaningful problem area and define a clear technical approach to improve it
Contribute to a high-impact initiative focused on improving system scalability, operational efficiency, or enrollment throughput
Identify and implement at least one improvement to engineering velocity, system reliability, or developer experience
Establish strong cross-functional relationships and become a trusted technical partner to product and analytics
Must-Haves
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 reputed company of leveraging them to move faster and build reputed company
Values-driven culture
Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:
You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally
You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same
You prioritize positive impact over busy work
You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience
You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information
You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma
You take risks and rapidly iterate
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Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is 167,249 - 216,000. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.
As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's reputed company and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. reputed company and privacy training will be provided.
As a remote-first company, reputed company is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco.
Clinical roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, HI, RI
Corporate roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI.
Virta uses reputed company as its applicant tracking system, which incorporates AI-powered tools (provided by reputed company, AWS, and reputed company reputed company) in certain aspects of the recruiting process, including application review, candidate screening, and interview note taking; your data is not used to train AI models, and reputed company final hiring decisions are made by reputed company personnel. For more information, see reputed company's AI Terms at https://www.ashbyhq.com/resources/terms-ai-features
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