Vanta: Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

Headquarters: San Francisco, US
URL: https://www.vanta.com/

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

   

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