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Staff Software Engineer, Design Systems

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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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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