Engineering Manager (Product Platform)

Join Virta, a leading digital health company focused on reversing type 2 diabetes. As the Engineering Manager for the Product Platform team, you will lead a highly experienced squad dedicated to accelerating personalized, scalable care. You will champion Virta's core services and platform capabilities, drive continuous process optimization, own the technical strategic vision, and foster a high-ownership environment. This remote-first position offers flexible work hours, comprehensive health insurance, paid parental leave, and more.

• Lead and manage a senior engineering team dedicated to accelerating the delivery of personalized, scalable care through the development of core services and platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering managers across the organization to proactively address delivery friction, establish feedback loops, and align on adoption strategies that drive capability utilization.
• Drive continuous process optimization and innovation in the software development life cycle, with a specific focus on AI-native development and reducing development toil.
• Experience aligning platform timelines with product roadmaps, strategically timing deliveries to maximize engineering leverage and minimize cross-team friction
• Interprets team delivery and health metrics to uncover opportunities for improvement, distinguishing when a metric requires active intervention versus when to simply monitor
• Technical fluency in platform, product infrastructure, or distributed systems contexts
• 3+ years leading senior, autonomous engineering teams, with a proven track record of building frameworks, shared platforms, or cross-team services
• 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
• Strong influencing skills. Encourages adoption of centralized frameworks or shared services across disparate teams without direct authority
• 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)