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 and obesity in one billion people.

The Adoption team’s mission is to ensure that our members feel empowered, safe, and ready to begin their metabolic weight loss journey as soon as they are approved to use our service. We are focused on taking a digital first approach to onboarding that weaves in the human touch of the coaches we provide.

In this role, success looks like having strong backend expertise, paired with an appreciation for frontend development and a collaborative approach to supporting colleagues across the stack.

As a member of the Adoption team, you will have a hand in shaping how our members interact with AI products in a responsible and member first way. We’re excited to find someone who brings an AI-augmented mindset, using modern tools and techniques to enhance development workflows and spot opportunities to embed AI into products and processes where it adds value.

What You’ll Do

• Spend 80+% of your time working in the backend. Build and enhance scalable Python and Golang services to power our member facing mobile app, with a focus on supporting our members in their first two weeks.

• Contribute to building Viv, a multi-surface AI guide whose goal is to engage and support members in their journey.

• Partner with product management, design, analysts and non-technical stakeholders to come up with high-impact features that make metabolic weight loss feel accessible and exciting to our members.

• Contribute to the growth of the engineering team by sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, and helping introduce standardizations and processes that improve technical quality.

Your First 90 Days

Joining a new company and stepping into an impactful role takes time. Here’s what you can expect as you get started and begin making your mark:

• Immerse Yourself: Meet the team, stakeholders, and understand our company mission, values, and context

• Setup our standard developer environment and get familiar with the tools and processes we use.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Analytics to put an experiment in our members’ hands, and bring the findings back to the team.

• Give feedback! Share insights and learnings to refine the team’s workflow, tooling, and operating procedures.

Who You Are

• A strong product sense, and the ability to build iteratively. We experiment a lot! You should have experience in carving down requirements to test an idea in two weeks or less.

• 5+ years of backend or full-stack engineering experience with strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript) and familiarity with frameworks such as React. We welcome candidates who bring depth in some areas and curiosity and capacity to learn in others.

• 5+ years of REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs.

• At least 1 year experience of using AI tools to both build consumer facing products and accelerate development workflows.

• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining microservices in production.

• Strong communication skills and a proven history of interfacing with business-level stakeholders, both technical and non-technical alike.

Bonuses

• Experience working in Healthcare.

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 security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.

As a remote-first company, our team 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.

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Compensation Range: $167.2K - $216K