Senior Software Engineer II at Virta Health
$176,500–$228,000
Jul 30, 2026
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Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and evolving a data engagement platform that converts partner and internal data into eligibility decisions and marketing audiences for a digital health company. The engineer will own data contracts, observability, reconciliation, and event-driven integrations across Coverage Eligibility and Member Marketing systems, while modernizing legacy file-based data exchanges. It suits an experienced backend/data engineer comfortable leading technical direction across cross-functional teams in a regulated healthcare environment.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $176,500–$228,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 770 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 330–1,150
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (6)
The role is genuinely ambiguous between data/pipeline architecture (15-1243) and general backend software development (15-1252). The posting emphasizes data contracts, lineage, reconciliation, and pipeline correctness as the primary deliverables, which tips toward 15-1243, but the role also ships production backend services in Golang, supporting 15-1252 as a close runner-up.
The title carries no seniority level, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 10+ years requirement and scope (cross-team technical leadership, architectural ownership) support a Senior classification rather than Staff — the posting describes leading a squad and mentoring senior engineers but does not describe org-wide platform authority.
GCP is listed in the team's 'Our Work Stack' section rather than under Must-Haves, but the stack is specific and detailed enough that GCP, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and CloudSQL are treated as preferred rather than hard gates. Golang is called out as the 'primary language for backend services' in the stack section; however, the Must-Haves section requires 'strong backend engineering skills' with no specific language named — Golang is marked required given it is the sole primary backend language and the role ships backend services in it.
Braze, Segment, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud appear only under Nice-to-Haves as examples of marketing-automation platforms; they are listed as preferred with alternatives reflecting the 'or comparable systems' framing in the posting.
The compensation range ($176,500–$228,000/year) is stated as location-based; the posting is remote-first with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco. Denver CBSA is used as the primary metro reference.
HIPAA compliance is mentioned as an ongoing job duty, not a certification gate; it is not captured as a skill per the schema rules.
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