Top Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage for employees and dependents.
Remote-first or hybrid work options.
Competitive paid parental leave for all parents.
About the role
Who you are
- Over 9 years of industry experience with deep expertise in one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend, design systems, accessibility, app performance, runtime)
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, driving strategic projects and improving organizational processes in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Mastery in system design and software architecture, with an emphasis on user experience and accessibility standards, and a strong sense of design craft
- Extensive experience building tooling and abstractions for developers that result in user-facing experiences
- Expertise in debugging and supporting platform tooling for the frontend
- Strong leadership and mentorship experience, consistently up-leveling teams and leading by example
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and advocate for technical decisions at all levels of the organization
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Vanta, you will play a critical role in driving the long-term technical strategy, leading complex initiatives, and making high-impact decisions that affect your product area and the broader engineering organization
- You will set the tone for engineering excellence and culture
- This role involves a mix of hands-on development, leadership, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration
- You will work closely with engineering leadership and product teams to ensure the alignment of systems with Vanta’s technical strategy, and you will actively influence key decisions across the organization
- Be a leader for and advise on UI/UX best practices and standards at Vanta bringing a high bar for design craft ensuring our components are both functional and refined
- Build, maintain, and update existing shared UI components to ensure they are consistent across our system and product, bug free, well tested, and well documented
- Educate all engineers in UX and industry standards and best practices, our Design System guidance, and how to implement in code
- Support product team use cases through building new shared patterns when it makes sense to extend the system, or updating guidance
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects that lay the groundwork for building highly performant and reliable systems
- Lead key technical decisions that will form the system’s stance and recommendations for product teams
- Rally cross-functional teams to drive initiatives to completion, even without direct management of team members
- Address product, technical, and operational challenges with clear, impactful solutions
- Serve as a cultural leader, modeling collaborative behaviors and mentoring engineers to elevate organizational performance
Benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
About Vanta
Software Development
501-1000
Vanta is the leading trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Thousands of companies including Atlassian, Omni Hotels, Quora, and ZoomInfo rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.
Top Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage for employees and dependents.
Remote-first or hybrid work options.
Competitive paid parental leave for all parents.
About the role
Who you are
- Over 9 years of industry experience with deep expertise in one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend, design systems, accessibility, app performance, runtime)
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, driving strategic projects and improving organizational processes in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Mastery in system design and software architecture, with an emphasis on user experience and accessibility standards, and a strong sense of design craft
- Extensive experience building tooling and abstractions for developers that result in user-facing experiences
- Expertise in debugging and supporting platform tooling for the frontend
- Strong leadership and mentorship experience, consistently up-leveling teams and leading by example
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and advocate for technical decisions at all levels of the organization
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Vanta, you will play a critical role in driving the long-term technical strategy, leading complex initiatives, and making high-impact decisions that affect your product area and the broader engineering organization
- You will set the tone for engineering excellence and culture
- This role involves a mix of hands-on development, leadership, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration
- You will work closely with engineering leadership and product teams to ensure the alignment of systems with Vanta’s technical strategy, and you will actively influence key decisions across the organization
- Be a leader for and advise on UI/UX best practices and standards at Vanta bringing a high bar for design craft ensuring our components are both functional and refined
- Build, maintain, and update existing shared UI components to ensure they are consistent across our system and product, bug free, well tested, and well documented
- Educate all engineers in UX and industry standards and best practices, our Design System guidance, and how to implement in code
- Support product team use cases through building new shared patterns when it makes sense to extend the system, or updating guidance
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects that lay the groundwork for building highly performant and reliable systems
- Lead key technical decisions that will form the system’s stance and recommendations for product teams
- Rally cross-functional teams to drive initiatives to completion, even without direct management of team members
- Address product, technical, and operational challenges with clear, impactful solutions
- Serve as a cultural leader, modeling collaborative behaviors and mentoring engineers to elevate organizational performance
Benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
About Vanta
Software Development
501-1000
Vanta is the leading trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Thousands of companies including Atlassian, Omni Hotels, Quora, and ZoomInfo rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.