Vanta: Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

<p> <strong>Headquarters:</strong> San Francisco, US <br /><strong>URL:</strong> https://www.vanta.com/ </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p><em>Visit our </em><em>Vanta Engineering Blog</em><em> to learn more about what our team is working on! </em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you'll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p>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</p> </li> <li> <p>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</p> </li> <li> <p>Educate all engineers in UX and industry standards and best practices, our Design System guidance, and how to implement in code</p> </li> <li> <p>Support product team use cases through building new shared patterns when it makes sense to extend the system, or updating guidance</p> </li> <li> <p>Drive technical direction within your team and make key technical decisions that will form the system's stance and recommendations for product teams</p> </li> <li> <p>Identify, scope, and lead technical projects that lay the groundwork for building highly performant and reliable systems</p> </li> <li> <p>Mentor and uplevel more junior teammates through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>How to be successful in this role:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p>Minimum 5-8 years of industry experience with deep expertise in frontend engineering, design systems, and accessibility</p> </li> <li> <p>Proven ability to drive complex technical initiatives independently, delivering high-quality results in fast-paced environments</p> </li> <li> <p>Extensive experience building shared UI components and developer tooling that results in exceptional user-facing experiences</p> </li> <li> <p>Proficiency in system design and software architecture, with an emphasis on user experience and accessibility standards, and a strong sense of design craft</p> </li> <li> <p>Strong expertise in TypeScript, React, component architecture, state management, and frontend performance optimization</p> </li> <li> <p>Demonstrated leadership through mentoring teammates, driving technical decisions, and influencing engineering standards</p> </li> <li> <p>Excellent communication skills with the ability to educate and collaborate effectively across engineering teams</p> </li> <li> <p>Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship</p> </li> <li> <p>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</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you can expect as a Vanta’n:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p>Industry-competitive salary and equity</p> </li> <li> <p>Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans</p> </li> <li> <p>16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents</p> </li> <li> <p>Health & wellness stipend</p> </li> <li> <p>Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend</p> </li> <li> <p>Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office</p> </li> <li> <p>Family planning benefits</p> </li> <li> <p>Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting</p> </li> <li> <p>Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time</p> </li> <li> <p>11 company-paid holidays</p> </li> <li> <p>Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!</p> </li> <li> <p>Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney</p> <p> </p> </li> </ul> <p>To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.</p> <p> </p> <p>#LI-remote</p> <p> </p> …