Senior Backend Software Engineer

Who you are

• Have at least 5 years of industry experience with backend development
• You have experience designing, building, and scaling backend systems, APIs, and Platform primitives
• Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects
• Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
• Have previous experience working on greenfield projects
• Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
• 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 the job involves

• Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale
• Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team
• Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth
• Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer
• We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company
• The Integrations Platform team mission is to power the world’s largest trust automation ecosystem, enabling any person or agent to build, connect, and automate trust seamlessly
• We own Vanta’s integration ecosystem, which currently includes over 400 integrations across Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Identity providers, MDM, and HRIS. We are focused on developing the Integration Platform
• This includes creating shared primitives for authentication, lifecycle, observability, and publishing to ensure all integrations are built on the same foundation
• Our North Star is to eliminate the barrier to building integrations entirely. We aim to enable anyone to create an integration in minutes using declarative, low-code, and no-code patterns, supercharged by AI
• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business
• Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth
• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
• Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it
• Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
• Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
• Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
• 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan