Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

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 is key to Vanta's success.

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.

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What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems 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:

• 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

• Mastery 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

• 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 fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents

• Heal