Senior Software Engineer, Virta Health
Activation
$167.2-216k
+ Equity
Diabetes reversal & weight loss treatments
Be an early applicant
Diabetes reversal & weight loss treatments
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$167.2-216k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reverse metabolic disease in one billion people
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- Within 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 current 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
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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