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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.
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.
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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).
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.
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.
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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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.
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 $174,537-225,413. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers .
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.
Virta uses Ashby as its applicant tracking system, which incorporates AI-powered tools (provided by OpenAI, AWS, and Google Gemini) 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 all final hiring decisions are made by Virta Health personnel. For more information, see Ashby's AI Terms at https://www.ashbyhq.com/resources/terms-ai-features
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