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Salary: USD 114,500 - 148,000 / annual
Virta Health is reversing metabolic disease through technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery. The company has raised over $350M from top-tier investors and partners with major health plans, employers, and government organizations.
As a Backend Engineer, you will build reliable systems that improve data accuracy across member, client, and operational workflows. You'll design and deliver scalable Golang microservices powering eligibility, coverage, billing, and client-facing systems. Your responsibilities include automating operational workflows to reduce manual data handling, designing self-service tools for finance and operations teams, ensuring data accuracy and traceability for internal decision-making and external reporting, and collaborating with data and AI teams on opportunities to apply AI to validation, automation, and anomaly detection. You'll also contribute to client-facing APIs enabling seamless data exchange with customers.
The role emphasizes an AI-augmented mindset, using modern tools to enhance development workflows and identify opportunities to embed AI where it adds value. You'll work in a remote-first environment with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco, supporting healthcare workflows where data integrity is paramount.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5–7 years of shipping backend code in high-quality production environments with exposure to data-centric systems
- Experience building microservices in production
- Experience with data and event-based architectures (API development, SQL/NoSQL datastores, messaging queues)
- Proficiency with Golang
- Experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure)
- Strong communication skills and proven history of interfacing with business-level stakeholders, both technical and non-technical
- Champion of long-term thinking and business impact without sacrificing engineering quality
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- Practical use of AI tools to accelerate development workflows or enhance data processes
- Light frontend skills for full-stack moments
- Exposure to healthcare, fintech, or other regulated domains where data integrity is critical
