Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Virta Health as a Senior Backend Software Engineer and build reliable systems, improve data accuracy, and automate critical processes. You will enhance scalable Golang microservices, streamline operational workflows, and design self-service tools. Your work will ensure accurate, accessible data for internal teams and external partners. You will collaborate with data and AI teams to explore AI applications and contribute to client-facing APIs. Virta offers a values-driven culture and a competitive compensation package. The role is remote-first.

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

• 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
• As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco