Engineering Manager, Product Platform

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. 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 metabolic disease in one billion people. ABOUT THE ROLE As the Engineering Manager for Virta’s Product Platform team, you will lead a highly experienced, autonomous squad composed primarily of senior+ engineers. The team is dedicated to a singular mission: accelerating how we deliver personalized, scalable care. You will champion Virta’s core services and platform capabilities, including our communications service, Workflow engine, and our AI Platform. Your team removes the friction that blocks our product squads from innovating. In this role, you aren’t just managing execution; you are a strategic partner who anticipates engineering bottlenecks across the company before they even surface. You will balance immediate, high-leverage acceleration bets with long-term structural innovations, all while leading a high-ownership squad at the forefront of AI-native software development and modern SDLC iteration. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Platform Adoption & Cross-team Orchestration: Partner with EMs across Virta to proactively solve their delivery friction, establish structured feedback loops with product teams, and align on win-win adoption strategies that drive capability utilization without sacrificing product timelines. - Software Development Life Cycle Innovation & Operational Excellence: Drive continuous process optimization with a specific focus on AI-native development. Partner with the team to safely experiment with agentic coding tools, reducing development toil and improving cycle times while preserving team expertise,technical skills, judgment, and domain knowledge. - Technical Strategy & Platform Vision: Own the technical strategic vision for Virta’s core platform capabilities. Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure the architecture scales to meet future business goals, balancing quick-win acceleration bets with long-term investments. - Team Execution & Decision Facilitation: Lead and support a senior-leaning, autonomous squad, fostering a high-ownership environment built on trust. Act as a strategic facilitator and decisive tie-breaker when senior team members face complex technical decisions. - Career Development & Growth: Focus deeply on senior talent development. Create growth paths that challenge experienced engineers to scale their impact from "problem solvers" to "system thinkers," coaching them on navigating organizational influence and progressing toward Staff/Principal levels. REQUIREMENTS: - 3+ years leading senior, autonomous engineering teams, with a proven track record of building frameworks, shared platforms, or cross-team services. - Strong influencing skills. Encourages adoption of centralized frameworks or shared services across disparate teams without direct authority. - Experience aligning platform timelines with product roadmaps, strategically timing deliveries to maximize engineering leverage and minimize cross-team friction. - Technical fluency in platform, product infrastructure, or distributed systems contexts. - Interprets team delivery and health metrics to uncover opportunities for improvement, distinguishing when a metric requires active intervention versus when to simply monitor. - Translates high-level company OKRs/KPIs into strategy, helping the team understand how their work directly drives business growth. -