Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

Headquarters: San Francisco, US URL: https://www.vanta.com/ 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. 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. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you'll do as a Senior Software Engineer 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: Minimum 5-8 years of industry experience with deep expertise in frontend engineering, design systems,