Senior Fullstack Engineer, Vendor Monitoring Experience

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. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, including the security of your supply chain. The Vendor Risk Management (VRM) product was designed to provide software buyers with tools to evaluate the security of their vendors by inventorying vendors, prioritising risks, automating security reviews and remediating findings. VRM or Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) presents a massive opportunity for Vanta - representing a market of $5-$10B in ARR and a CAGR of 10.8% driven by secular tailwinds in the industry that requires more focused and deeper scrutiny of the company’s supply chain. As a Senior Software Engineer with a full-stack focus, you’ll be responsible for driving complex projects across our technical stack and mentor our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to accelerate the evolution of our Vendor Risk Management product and help software buyers continuously and comprehensively monitor risks across their vendor supply chain. 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. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us! Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta: - Lead complex, ambiguous projects end-to-end, partnering with multiple stakeholders and engineers to accelerate our roadmap and deliver meaningful impact - Operate with a high degree of ownership: identify problems, shape solutions, and drive execution without requiring detailed direction - Collaborate effectively with teammates across the UK, US, Canada, and Israel, using async-first practices to stay aligned and unblock progress - Contribute to cross-cutting engineering initiatives and help build shared product primitives used across teams - Make thoughtful tradeoffs that balance business priorities, user experience, and long-term technical sustainability - Raise the bar for code quality, system design, and operational excellence - Contribute to and help shape Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow, particularly as part of a distributed team How to be successful in this role: - 7+ years of full-stack experience, with strong backend expertise - Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional projects that span multiple weeks or months, from scoping through delivery - High agency and self-direction: comfortable operating as the only engineer on the team in your location while staying highly connected to the broader team - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience working effectively in distributed, async-first environments - A track record of building user-facing SaaS products, ideally serving both startups and enterprise customers - Experience building 0→1 products as well as scaling and evolving systems in fast-paced environments with a bias for action - 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. - Experience with Typescript and GraphQL is a plus. - Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI