Staff Software Engineer, Design Systems

October 14

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Compliance • Security • SaaS

Vanta is a trust management platform that streamlines compliance workflows and enhances security programs for businesses. By leveraging automation, Vanta helps companies achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR. It offers solutions for companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, ensuring security and compliance at scale. With integrations with over 375 tools, Vanta leverages AI to simplify tasks such as questionnaire automation and vendor risk management. Vanta empowers service providers and auditors to deliver efficient and satisfactory experiences, helping businesses build trust with their clients and partners.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

📋 Compliance

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

💰 $40M Series B on 2022-10

📋 Description

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 stipend • Flexible work hours and location • 21 days of PTO and 80 hours of sick leave • 8 to 11 company paid holidays (dependent on your territory of residence) • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!