Engineering Manager, Virta Health
Product Platform
$174.5-225.4k
+ Equity
More information about location
Diabetes reversal & weight loss treatments
Job no longer available
Diabetes reversal & weight loss treatments
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$174.5-225.4k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reverse metabolic disease in one billion people
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years leading senior, autonomous engineering teams, with a proven track record of building frameworks, shared platforms, or cross-team services
- Strong influencing skills. Encourages adoption of centralized frameworks or shared services across disparate teams without direct authority
- Experience aligning platform timelines with product roadmaps, strategically timing deliveries to maximize engineering leverage and minimize cross-team friction
- Technical fluency in platform, product infrastructure, or distributed systems contexts
- Interprets team delivery and health metrics to uncover opportunities for improvement, distinguishing when a metric requires active intervention versus when to simply monitor
- Translates high-level company OKRs/KPIs into strategy, helping the team understand how their work directly drives business growth
- Builds collaborative, high-performing teams in a fully remote or highly asynchronous environment
Desirable
- 5+ years leading a Platform, Infrastructure, or Developer Experience team, where internal engineering squads were your primary customers
- Experience pioneering or integrating AI-assisted/Agentic coding workflows into a team's software development lifecycle to accelerate delivery
- Deep architectural familiarity with Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) and distributed systems
- Hands-on engineering background in building highly scalable communication, workflow orchestration, or rules engines
- Familiarity working in a regulated industry, particularly healthcare (HIPAA compliance, digital health tech)
What the job involves
- As the Engineering Manager for Virta’s Product Platform team, you will lead a highly experienced, autonomous squad composed primarily of senior+ engineers
- The team is dedicated to a singular mission: accelerating how we deliver personalized, scalable care
- You will champion Virta’s core services and platform capabilities, including our communications service, Workflow engine, and our AI Platform
- Your team removes the friction that blocks our product squads from innovating. In this role, you aren’t just managing execution; you are a strategic partner who anticipates engineering bottlenecks across the company before they even surface
- You will balance immediate, high-leverage acceleration bets with long-term structural innovations, all while leading a high-ownership squad at the forefront of AI-native software development and modern SDLC iteration
- Platform Adoption & Cross-team Orchestration: Partner with EMs across Virta to proactively solve their delivery friction, establish structured feedback loops with product teams, and align on win-win adoption strategies that drive capability utilization without sacrificing product timelines
- Software Development Life Cycle Innovation & Operational Excellence: Drive continuous process optimization with a specific focus on AI-native development. Partner with the team to safely experiment with agentic coding tools, reducing development toil and improving cycle times while preserving team expertise,technical skills, judgment, and domain knowledge
- Technical Strategy & Platform Vision: Own the technical strategic vision for Virta’s core platform capabilities. Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure the architecture scales to meet future business goals, balancing quick-win acceleration bets with long-term investments
- Team Execution & Decision Facilitation: Lead and support a senior-leaning, autonomous squad, fostering a high-ownership environment built on trust. Act as a strategic facilitator and decisive tie-breaker when senior team members face complex technical decisions
- Career Development & Growth: Focus deeply on senior talent development. Create growth paths that challenge experienced engineers to scale their impact from "problem solvers" to "system thinkers," coaching them on navigating organizational influence and progressing toward Staff/Principal levels
- An example of what your first 90 days at Virta could include is:
- By Day 45 (Team Integration & Listening Tour): Author a Team Operating Assessment detailing individuals strengths, growth areas, and delivery health. Partner with each employee to finalize 6-month career goals tied to team and personal impact
- By Day 60 (Platform Friction & Adoption Inventory): Create a comprehensive Platform Friction Inventory. This artifact must clearly catalog current developer adoption blockers, missing feedback loops, and specific areas where product squads need support
- By Day 90 (Formalized Team Strategy Document): Author a comprehensive Team Strategy Document that maps out the future of the Product Platform squad. This plan must explicitly define:
- Quick Wins: High-leverage, immediate optimizations to unblock product teams
- Long-Term Investments: Clear architectural scaling targets for our Communications, Workflow, and Decision engines
- Adoption Metrics & Risks: Defined metrics to track framework utilization alongside a clear risk-mitigation framework
Our take
Much of the care for type 2 diabetes has been based on control and prevention, rather than a direct reversal of the issue. Virta Health is changing that, providing patients with personalized treatment plans, virtual monitoring and patient care.
Instead of depending upon medication, which often needs to be increased over time, the company is tackling the problem at its root and taking a fundamentally different approach that is better for the patient, and more economical for insurers. Among enrolled patients in its clinical trial at one year, 60% achieved diabetes reversal.
While other platforms serve similar markets, the large number of prediabetic and diabetic Americans presents a significant opportunity for growth. The company is well-funded and continues to expand the reach of its telehealth-powered diabetes reversal treatment - positioning itself for widespread adoption as it addressies this critical healthcare challenge.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$133m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $373m
Company benefits
- Remote-first work environment with ability to work from home
- Flexible work hours & time off policy
- Virta pays 99% of all employee health insurance premiums, and 75% for all dependents
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Enroll in the Virta treatment for free and give a discount to friends and family
- Internet, home office, learning & development stipends
- Employee Resource Groups like Parents of Virta, Ladies of Virta, and Virtans for DEI
- 401K and ROTH contribution opportunities
Company HQ
Civic Center, Denver, CO
Leadership
Sami Inkinen
(CEO & Co-Founder)Worked on Microsoft’s strategy team for MS Office, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Co-founder of online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group.
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