Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. As a Backend Engineer, you’ll build reliable systems and improve data accuracy across workflows, enabling faster decision-making and reducing manual processes.
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
Skills
- 5-7 years of shipping backend code in a high quality production environment, 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, 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
- 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 paramount
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