Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

Vanta; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading security technology company in Toronto is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its Design Systems team. This role involves building and maintaining shared UI components, advising on best practices, and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have 5-8 years of experience in frontend engineering and design systems. This position offers competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive health benefits including 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for dependents, flexible work hours, and generous PTO.

Benefits

Industry-competitive salary and equity

100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits

Pension contribution

16 weeks fully paid parental leave

Health & wellness stipend

Remote workspace stipend

Flexible work hours and location

21 days of PTO and 80 hours of sick leave

8 to 11 company paid holidays

Virtual team building activities and events

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of industry experience with expertise in frontend engineering and design systems.
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives and deliver high-quality results.
• Extensive experience building shared UI components and developer tooling.
• Mastery in system design and software architecture, emphasizing accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and update existing shared UI components.
• Lead and advise on UI/UX best practices and standards.
• Educate engineers on UX and industry standards.
• Drive technical direction within the team.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Design systems

Accessibility

TypeScript

React

Component architecture

State management

Frontend performance optimization

Mentoring

Excellent communication skills

Job 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. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

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. 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.

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.

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

What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems 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:

• 5-8 years of industry experience with deep expertise in frontend engineering, design systems, and accessibility
• Proven ability to drive complex technical initiatives independently, delivering high-quality results in fast-paced environments
• Extensive experience building shared UI components and developer tooling that results in exceptional user-facing experiences
• Mastery in system design and software architecture, with an emphasis on user experience and accessibility standards, and a strong sense of design craft
• Strong expertise in TypeScript, React, component architecture, state management, and frontend performance optimization
• Demonstrated leadership through mentoring teammates, driving technical decisions, and influencing engineering standards
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to educate and collaborate effectively across engineering teams

What you can expect as a Vanta’n in Canada:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• Pension contribution
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace stipend
• Flexible work hours and location
• 21 days of PTO and 80 hours of sick leave
• 8 to 11 company paid holidays (dependent on your territory of residence)
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide 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. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.