Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

Design Systems is on a mission to build tooling that empowers internal teams to easily build consistent and high-quality user experiences that delight our customers.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Design Systems at Vanta, you will drive complex initiatives for your team, lead technical direction, and act as a force multiplier by leveraging your skills to uplevel solutions and work through others. You'll build high-quality components, establish UI/UX standards, and mentor engineers across the organization. Ensuring our components meet product needs and keep look and feel consistent, intuitive, and premium for our end customers across a quickly growing engineering org is key to Vanta's success.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! 

What you'll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta:

• 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

• Be a leader for and advise on UI/UX best practices and standards at Vanta, bringing a high bar for design craft to ensure our components are both functional and refined

• 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

• Drive technical direction within your team and make key technical decisions that will form the system's stance and recommendations for product teams

• Identify, scope, and lead technical projects that lay the groundwork for building highly performant and reliable systems

• Mentor and uplevel more junior teammates through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing

How to be successful in this role:

• Minimum 5-8 years of industry experience with deep expertise in frontend engineering, design systems, and accessibility

• Proven ability to drive complex technical initiatives independently, delivering high-quality results in fast-paced environments

• Extensive experience building shared UI components and developer tooling that results in exceptional user-facing experiences

• Proficiency in system design and software architecture, with an emphasis on user experience and accessibility standards, and a strong sense of design craft

• Strong expertise in TypeScript, React, component architecture, state management, and frontend performance optimization

• Demonstrated leadership through mentoring teammates, driving technical decisions, and influencing engineering standards

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to educate and collaborate effectively across engineering teams

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship

• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

What you can expect as a Vanta’n:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans

• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness stipend

• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend

• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office

• Family planning benefits

• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting

• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time

• 11 company-paid holidays

• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. 

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.

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