Description
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.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the team based in London, you will play a key role in growing our engineering presence in Europe. You'll partner with product management, product design, and your growing engineering team to drive the discovery and development of privacy, AI, and risk management features that expand Vanta’s value for its customers. Your work will accelerate product development and create a consistent customer experience for all of our customer segments.
What you’ll do as a Staff Engineer at Vanta:
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for core products to evolve and scale into highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems
- Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Set technical direction that shapes how multiple teams build in the privacy and AI governance spaces
- Help stand up and shape engineering practices as we grow our footprint in the UK/Ireland, including interviewing, hiring, and onboarding new teammates
- Act as a cultural beacon, setting a high bar for engineering culture and excellence, and multiply the impact of the teams around you through mentorship and technical leadership
How to be successful in this role:
- At least 10 years of industry experience as a software engineer
- Served as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
- Have set technical direction or built systems whose impact extended beyond your immediate team
- Built successful SaaS products for both startup and enterprise users
- Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
- Upleveled teams of engineers by mentoring and leading by example
- Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action
What you can expect as a Vanta’n:
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
- 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and mobile phone stipend
- Commuter benefits and lunch allowance for team members who attend the office
- Pension matching
- 25 days of Annual Leave per year and unlimited sick time
- 8 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team-building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!