Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Vanta, a company dedicated to securing the internet and protecting consumer data, as a Staff Software Engineer. You will play a key role in setting the technical direction for the frontend stack, ensuring scalability, and driving complex projects. This position involves leading design reviews, advocating for product quality, collaborating with various teams, and mentoring junior engineers. Vanta offers a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment with opportunities to contribute to a rapidly scaling company. The role requires extensive full-stack development experience, a background in platform teams, and proven leadership in large-scale projects. Vanta provides competitive compensation and benefits, including comprehensive health coverage, parental leave, stipends, 401(k) matching, flexible work arrangements, and paid time off.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of experience with full stack development, delivering customer facing components that are used by multiple product teams
• Prior experience on a platform team
• Served as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
• Built successful SaaS product foundations for both startup and enterprise users
• Upleveled teams of engineers by mentoring and leading by example
• Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action

Responsibilities

• Hands-on lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
• Lead design reviews and communicate constraints to ensure we are making the right trade-offs
• Advocate for product quality and collaborate with product engineering teams on cross cutting features
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Collaborate with Security to ensure Vanta’s platform implements best practices for customer data
• Collaborate with Engineering Leadership to build and execute the engineering strategy to expand the quality, scalability, and reliability of Vanta’s codebase
• Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members

Benefits

• Industry-competitive compensation
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours and location
• Open PTO policy
• 11 paid holidays in the US
• Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, and Sydney