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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. 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 rapidly shipping new capabilities is key to Vanta’s success. 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.
Job Responsibility:
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
Requirements:
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
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 we offer:
Industry-competitive salary and equity
100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
Pension contribution
16 weeks fully paid Parental Leave for all new parents
Health & wellness stipend
Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
Flexible work hours and location
21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave
11 company-paid holidays
Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events