Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

Vanta

8d•Remote

About The Position

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. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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