Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Virta Health, a company revolutionizing type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care, as a Senior Backend Software Engineer. You will build and enhance scalable Golang microservices, automate workflows, design self-service tools, and ensure data accuracy. This role requires strong backend development experience with microservices, data architectures, and Golang. You will collaborate with data and AI teams and contribute to client-facing APIs. The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of data-centric systems and excellent communication skills. Virta offers a values-driven culture and competitive compensation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of shipping backend code in a high quality production environment, with exposure to data centric systems
• Experience building, deploying, and maintaining microservices in production
• Experience with data and event-based architectures (API development, SQL/NoSQL datastores, messaging queues, etc.)
• Experience with Golang
• Experience with a cloud platform such as Google Cloud, AWS and/or Azure
• Strong communication skills and a proven history of interfacing with business-level stakeholders, both technical and non-technical alike
• Being a champion of long-term thinking and striving to make a business impact without sacrificing engineering quality

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance scalable Golang microservices to power eligibility, coverage, billing, and client-facing systems
• Automate and streamline operational workflows, helping to reduce manual data handling and improve the accuracy and availability of member and client data
• Design and deliver self-service tools that allow finance, operations, and client teams to manage processes and configurations independently, reducing reliance on engineering
• Ensure member, client, and operational data is accurate, consistent, and traceable, supporting both internal decision-making and external reporting
• Work with data and AI teams to explore opportunities to apply AI to data validation, process automation, and anomaly detection
• Contribute to client-facing APIs that enable seamless data exchange between Virta and our customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using AI tools to accelerate development workflows or enhance data processes
• Experience in frontend development with Javascript, HTML, CSS and React.js

Benefits

• Remote work
• Competitive compensation ($167,249 - $216,000)
• Values-driven culture