Virta Health is on a mission to transform type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care. 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 diabetes in 100 million people.

Why is this role cool

As an Engineering Manager for the Client Product team, you will be at the forefront of integrating systems and creating event-driven architectures to enable our client-facing products. You will have the opportunity to lead a talented team of engineers, driving experimentation and innovation to improve our client journey and member operations experience. This role offers a unique blend of hands-on coding and strategic leadership, making a tangible impact on our mission to reverse type 2 diabetes. With GenAI quickly taking over our lives, this role would be leading in building and integrating agentic-based subsystems into the products the team builds.
Responsibilities

Team Management & Dynamics: Mentor, guide, and support team members towards a positive and collaborative environment.

Career Development & Growth: Create individualized development plans, identify training opportunities, and provide performance feedback.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Bridge the gap between engineering and other departments, working closely with product, design, AI, and analytics functions.

Process Management & Improvement: Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes through feedback, retrospectives, and best practices.

Technical Strategy & Decision-making: Align key technical decisions with business objectives and the broader technical strategy, while remaining hands-on with designing architecture and coding.

Must-Haves

2+ years of management experience in a software engineering environment

8+ years of engineering experience with building and architecting software systems, with experience working in a data focused role.

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or experience in a relevant field

Experience in programming languages such as Golang and Python

Experience in integrations with external third-party systems

Excellent written and oral communication skills and an ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and succinctly

Prior experience building collaborative and high performing teams in a remote environment

Solid programming skills, a track record, and passion for improving the code structure and architecture to enhance testability and maintainability

Great project management skills to lead, care about product ownership, an outstanding customer-centric mindset, and solving problems for our customers.

A self-starter driven with a spirit to experiment and learn and fail fast.

Bonus Points For…

Working at a startup during the growth phase.

Experience working with GenAI and building AI applications.

Experience working with Google Cloud.

Familiarity working in a regulated industry, particularly healthcare.

90 Day Plan

Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:

Familiarize yourself with the team and its stakeholders. Understand roles, responsibilities, strengths and improvement areas, aspirations. Get a pulse on team dynamics, understand expectations, and collaborations, with an eye towards what to safeguard and where enhanced coordination is needed.

Establish and enhance team processes. Review the current process, intended outcomes, and methodology of your team and the teams in the group. Bring your expertise to identify inefficiency, risk, and ways to enhance delivery or team health.

Align the learnings from above with the product roadmap and technical roadmap to start building a strategy for your team that melds the short-term and long-term goals of the team with that of the larger organization or the business. Have a plan to iterate on this strategy over time.

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