Vanta

Sr. Backend Software Engineer, Integrations Platform

Vanta$130K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend development experience
  • Proficient in designing, building, and scaling backend systems and APIs
  • Experience in technical leadership roles for complex projects
  • Past startup experience or similar fast-paced environment
  • Familiarity with greenfield projects
  • Interest in or experience with security practices
  • Open to integrating AI into work processes effectively

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex, impactful projects with various stakeholders
  • Define technical direction for critical areas to accommodate growth
  • Design and develop new functionalities and infrastructure using modern frameworks
  • Collaborate with a skilled team to enhance customer security offerings
  • Help shape Vanta's engineering culture as the team expands

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Remote workspace and internet stipend
  • Matching 401(k) contributions with immediate vesting
  • Flexible PTO policy plus 80 hours of sick time
  • Company paid holidays and team building activities
Full Job Description
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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.

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

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.

What you'll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta:
  • 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


How to be successful in this role:
  • 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 you can expect as a Vanta'n:
  • 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!
  • Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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About Vanta

Vanta is a software company that provides automated security and compliance solutions for businesses. The company's platform offers a range of services, including risk assessments, compliance monitoring, and security audits. Vanta's platform is designed to help businesses manage their security and compliance needs more efficiently and effectively. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Vanta
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2017
Revenue
$1 million

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