Senior Software Engineer, Activation

Virta Health

Senior Software Engineer for Virta Health driving critical projects in enrollment and member journeys. Designing scalable backend systems to support operational automation and improvements.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $167,249 - $216,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and deliver complex, ambiguous projects across the enrollment and early member journey, from problem definition through execution and iteration
Design and evolve scalable backend systems that power enrollment workflows, reduce time-to-enroll, and enable operational automation
Partner closely with product, design, data, and operations to identify high-impact opportunities and translate them into technical solutions
Build and maintain integrations with internal and external systems (e.g., clinical platforms, lab vendors, partner APIs), ensuring reliability, observability, and data consistency across boundaries
Lead technical decision-making for your team, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
Identify and address cross-team dependencies, technical risks, and scaling challenges before they become bottlenecks
Contribute to and elevate engineering standards, including code quality, system design, and developer experience
Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader within the team, influencing beyond your immediate scope
Leverage modern AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows to accelerate delivery and improve engineering productivity

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building and shipping production systems, with strong backend fundamentals in Go and/or Python
Proven ability to take ambiguous problems, define solutions, and drive execution with measurable impact
Experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, including APIs, asynchronous/event-driven architectures, and distributed workflows
Strong product and business intuition—you understand how technical decisions impact user experience and company outcomes
Proficiency with modern AI-assisted development workflows and a mindset of leveraging them to move faster and build better

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoPythonbackend systemsAPIsasynchronous architecturesevent-driven architecturesdistributed workflowscode qualitysystem designdeveloper experience

Soft Skills

problem definitionexecutionmentoringtechnical leadershipcross-team collaborationrisk identificationscaling challengesproduct intuitionbusiness intuitioninfluencing