Virta Health is on a mission to transform type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes in 100 million people.

About the role

The Adoption team’s  mission is to ensure that care delivery is safe, efficient, and impactful. We are responsible for creating an empowering, automated and engaging path to metabolic disease reversal so it feels sustainable and delightful for all patients as they work to meet their goals. This year we are building robust, automated tools that help our members get the support and treatment they need. 

In this role, you will be building features and maintaining our cross-platform applications that are used daily by our patients and clinicians. The ideal candidate will be an expert in  mobile product development and be eager to learn new skills and embrace challenges as opportunities to evolve for the team.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product management, design, AI team, analysts, QA and non-technical stakeholders to come up with high-impact features that drive us toward our goal of bringing the Virta treatment to 100+ million people.

• Be a technical leader while developing medium to large scale initiatives in the Virta mobile application utilizing React Native, TypeScript, and platform specific tooling.

• Modernize and investigate and improve mobile product performance and mentor and grow team members.

• 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.

• Work on mobile release rotation to support products and services the team manages and troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues in production and non-production environments.

90 Day Plan

Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:

• Release at least one medium feature on the mobile app with complete test coverage

• Observe current development practices and propose, execute and evangelize one or more improvements to make our developer experience even better.

• Develop and evaluate feature release success criteria metrics and iterate for impact.

• Collaborate with other engineering team members through knowledge sharing, pair programming, and giving feedback in code reviews.

Must-Haves

• 3+ years programming in a high-quality mobile production environment.

• Passion for learning and adapting to new technologies to solve problems.

• Solid experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript libraries and tooling like React Native.

• Solid experience with working with backend teams integrating REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs.

• Experience with data and event-based architectures (SQL/NoSQL datastores, messaging queues, etc.).

• 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.

• Attention to detail, carefully crafts both tests and code.

• Has a "I am a Problem Solver" and "Pitch in where needed"  mindset and knows how to communicate with business and technical stakeholders and how to deliver.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working to resolve application performance issues on mobile.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, and performance optimization.

• Understanding and experience with Go or Python.

Values-driven culture

Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally

• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same

• You prioritize positive impact over busy work

• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to th