Engineering Manager, Adoption

Summary

Join Virta Health's Adoption team as an Engineering Manager and contribute to their mission of reversing diabetes and obesity. You will lead and mentor a software engineering team, focusing on delivering value to end-users and internal stakeholders. Responsibilities include fostering a positive team environment, creating individual development plans, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will drive process improvement, inform technical strategy, and ensure alignment with business objectives. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, a proven ability to define and track engineering metrics, and experience building high-performing remote teams. Virta offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• Experience delivering value to end users and internal stakeholders
• Proven ability to define and track engineering metrics to quantify team health
• Able to understand business metrics (KPI, OKR) and put them in context to the team
• Experience building collaborative, high performing teams in a remote environment
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Mentor, guide, and support the team members towards healthy dynamics by fostering a positive and collaborative environment
• Create individualized development plans, identify & facilitate training, workshops, and other growth opportunities
• Recognize & reward outstanding performers
• Provide performance feedback
• Bridge the gap between engineering and other departments ensuring clear communication
• Work closely with product, design, AI, and analytics functions along with various stakeholder groups
• Advocate for what the team needs for success
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes through feedback, retrospectives, iteration, best practices, and prior experience
• Help refine our methodology towards the sweet spot between the team's needs and the company’s goals
• The focus is on management, but understanding the technical landscape is essential to ensuring key technical decisions are in alignment with business objectives and broader technical strategy
• Inform individual team members technical growth

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering impactful Gen AI features
• Building and delivering multi-platform applications in React Native or similar
• Experience with Go or Python, Monolith-to-microservices patterns, event driven architectures
• Familiarity working in a regulated industry, particularly healthcare

Benefits

Remote work, flexible hours