Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Authoring Experience
About the role
Vanta is a company focused on helping businesses earn and prove trust in their security practices. We are looking for a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer to join our Authoring Experience team. This role involves owning the architecture and rollout strategy for critical platform services, setting the technical bar for customer-facing APIs, and mentoring the engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and rollout strategy for critical platform services, from initial design through large-scale rollout and migration.
- Set the technical bar for how we design, publish, and maintain customer-facing APIs while owning things like security, reliability, and developer experience.
- Stitch together services across Vanta's platform to serve customer-facing use cases, designing clear service boundaries and partnering closely with our data-platform teams on access patterns.
- Raise the written design bar: drive RFCs and decision records that make architectural decisions durable and shared across the team.
- Act as a force multiplier: mentor engineers up to your own level, expand the team's review capacity, and partner with your EM on team health and culture.
- Build with TypeScript and Node.js on the backend, contribute to customer-facing experiences in React, and use AI tools to accelerate development and workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend development building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
- You've designed and shipped external or public product APIs: contracts, versioning, authentication, and the developer experience around them.
- You think in service boundaries and system design rather than any single layer of the stack, with enough data-layer fluency to partner well with dedicated platform teams.
- You're comfortable working in a modern frontend codebase (we use React); you don't need to be an expert, but building product end to end is part of the day-to-day here.
- Track record driving complex, ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives to completion, directly and through others.
- Experience rolling out or deprecating major systems safely at scale.
- Strong written design communication and demonstrated mentorship; you multiply the engineers around you.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Bonus: startup or bias-for-action environments, MongoDB at scale, prior work in security or compliance products.
Benefits
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
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!
Schedule
Remote work is available for this position.
Pay
Industry-competitive salary and equity
Company Culture
We are committed to hiring diverse talent and providing an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. At Vanta, we are dedicated to restoring trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security.