Engineering Manager, Product Platform

About Virta Health

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people by offering innovative technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care. We partner with leading health plans, employers, and government organizations to help individuals restore their health. With substantial funding from top-tier investors, Virta is at the forefront of transforming healthcare delivery.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager for Virta’s Product Platform team, you will lead a highly experienced, autonomous squad of senior+ engineers. Your team's mission is to accelerate the delivery of personalized, scalable care by championing Virta’s core services and platform capabilities, including our communications service, Workflow engine, and AI Platform. You will act as a strategic partner, anticipating engineering bottlenecks, balancing immediate high-leverage acceleration with long-term structural innovations, and leading a high-ownership squad at the forefront of AI-native software development.

Responsibilities:

• Platform Adoption & Cross-team Orchestration: Partner with Engineering Managers across Virta to proactively resolve delivery friction, establish feedback loops with product teams, and align on adoption strategies that drive capability utilization without compromising product timelines.
• Software Development Life Cycle Innovation & Operational Excellence: Drive continuous process optimization with a focus on AI-native development. Experiment with agentic coding tools to reduce development toil and improve cycle times while preserving team expertise and judgment.
• Technical Strategy & Platform Vision: Own the technical strategic vision for Virta’s core platform capabilities. Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to ensure the architecture scales for future business goals, balancing short-term wins 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 for complex technical decisions.
• Career Development & Growth: Focus on senior talent development, creating growth paths that challenge experienced engineers to scale their impact from "problem solvers" to "system thinkers," coaching them on organizational influence and progression 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 to encourage 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.
• Ability to interpret team delivery and health metrics to uncover improvement opportunities, distinguishing between necessary interventions and monitoring.
• Skill in translating high-level company OKRs/KPIs into strategy, helping the team understand their direct contribution to business growth.
• Experience building 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 primary customers.
• Experience pioneering or integrating AI-assisted/Agentic coding workflows into a team's software development lifecycle.
• 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 Example:

• By Day 45 (Team Integration & Listening Tour): Author a Team Operating Assessment detailing individual strengths, growth areas, and delivery health. Partner with each employee to finalize 6-month career goals.
• By Day 60 (Platform Friction & Adoption Inventory): Create a comprehensive Platform Friction Inventory cataloging developer adoption blockers, missing feedback loops, and areas where product squads need support.
• By Day 90 (Formalized Team Strategy Document): Author a comprehensive Team Strategy Document outlining the future of the Product Platform squad, including Quick Wins, Long-Term Investments, and Adoption Metrics & Risks.

Values-Driven Culture

Virta’s culture is driven by core values, including putting people first, strong ownership, prioritizing positive impact, having no ego, appreciating transparency, being evidence-based, and taking risks.

Additional Information

• Compensation: The compensation range for this role is $174,537 - $225,413, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
• Benefits: Information about Virta’s benefits can be found on their Careers page.
• Remote Work: This is a remote-first company. Specific state hiring restrictions apply for corporate roles (currently not hiring in AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI).
• HIPAA: Employees may come into contact with sensitive patient information and must adhere to HIPAA regulations and Virta’s security and privacy procedures.
• Applicant Tracking System: Virta uses Ashby, which incorporates AI-powered tools for recruiting processes. Candidate data is not used to train AI models, and final hiring decisions are made by Virta Health personnel. Refer to Ashby’s AI Terms for details.
• Referral: Connect with Virta via their Talent Community or LinkedIn for updates. #LI-remote