Engineering Manager, Product Platform

Job description

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. 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 metabolic disease in one billion people. ABOUT THE ROLE 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. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Platform Adoption & Cross-team Orchestration: Partner with EMs across Virta to proactively solve their delivery friction, establish structured feedback loops with product teams, and align on win-win adoption strategies that drive capability utilization without sacrificing product timelines. - Software Development Life Cycle Innovation & Operational Excellence: Drive continuous process optimization with a specific focus on AI-native development. Partner with the team to safely experiment with agentic coding tools, reducing development toil and improving cycle times while preserving team expertise,technical skills, judgment, and domain knowledge. - Technical Strategy & Platform Vision: Own the technical strategic vision for Virta’s core platform capabilities. Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure the architecture scales to meet future business goals, balancing quick-win acceleration bets with long-term investments. - Team Execution & Decision Facilitation: Lead and support a senior-leaning, autonomous squad, fostering a high-ownership environment built on trust. Act as a strategic facilitator and decisive tie-breaker when senior team members face complex technical decisions. - Career Development & Growth: Focus deeply on senior talent development. Create growth paths that challenge experienced engineers to scale their impact from "problem solvers" to "system thinkers," coaching them on navigating organizational influence and progressing toward Staff/Principal levels. REQUIREMENTS: - 3+ years leading senior, autonomous engineering teams, with a proven track record of building frameworks, shared platforms, or cross-team services. - Strong influencing skills. Encourages adoption of centralized frameworks or shared services across disparate teams without direct authority. - Experience aligning platform timelines with product roadmaps, strategically timing deliveries to maximize engineering leverage and minimize cross-team friction. - Technical fluency in platform, product infrastructure, or distributed systems contexts. - Interprets team delivery and health metrics to uncover opportunities for improvement, distinguishing when a metric requires active intervention versus when to simply monitor. - Translates high-level company OKRs/KPIs into strategy, helping the team understand how their work directly drives business growth. - Builds collaborative, high-performing teams in a fully remote or highly asynchronous environment. BONUS POINTS FOR… - 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). 90 DAY PLAN 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. 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 Is this role not quite what you're looking for? Join our Talent Community https://www.gem.com/form?formID=78f3c906-3ac6-4bbe-9fa6-2024e5d4aa93 and follow us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/virta-health to stay connected! 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 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. 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 #LI-remote