Virta Health · 2 days ago
Senior Backend Engineer - Activation
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Responsibilities
Partner with product management, applied AI, data analytics, QA and non-technical stakeholders to develop high-impact features and a long-term technical roadmap that drives us toward our goal of bringing the Virta treatment to 100+ million people.
Be a technical leader while developing and driving large scale initiatives as well as mentoring and growing team members in their initiatives.
Modernize and improve backend systems performance that support our product at increasing scale.
Collaboratively code and ship features and feature improvements for our mobile apps and related services at high velocity and high quality with adequate test coverage in 2-week sprints.
Rotate on-call to support products and services the team manages and troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues across the platform.
Qualification
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Required
5+ years programming in high-quality backend development for a production environment.
Passion for learning and adapting to new technologies to solve problems.
Expertise in distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, and performance optimization.
Expertise working with multiple request architecture patterns such as REST, gRPC, and/or GraphQL.
Expertise with data and event-based architectures (SQL/NoSQL datastores, messaging queues, etc.).
Proficiency in communicating with business and technical stakeholders.
Eye for design, and empathy for users. Be able to critique and think through how designs will impact our end users, not just the code.
Comfortable working with legacy code and willing to work towards improving it.
Has an "I am a Problem Solver" and "Pitch in where needed" mindset.
Understanding and experience with Go and/or Python.
Preferred
Knowledge of authentication patterns and best practices.
Experience with frontend development, TypeScript and modern JavaScript libraries.
Knowledgeable of a variety of data access patterns.
Experience with one or more experimentation platforms.
Familiarity with domain-driven design and decomposing monoliths.
Benefits
HIPAA security and privacy training provided
Company
Virta Health
Virta delivers a clinically-proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases.
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (1)
2022 (1)
2021 (5)
2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$373MKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementSequoia Capital Global EquitiesCaffeinated Capital
2021-04-19Series E· $133M
2020-12-02Series D· $65M
2020-01-10Series C· $93M
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