Key skills
Backend developmentEvent-driven architectureDistributed systemsAPI integrationPlatform services developmentData modelingTransactional consistencyBilling systemsPayment processingSubscription managementFinancial data securityTechnical project leadershipDecisive actionCuriositySound judgmentAISales
About this role
Vanta is on a mission to help businesses earn and prove trust by continuously monitoring and verifying security. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Monetization Platform team, you will lead complex projects, provide technical direction, and mentor engineers while building systems that support Vanta's growth and enhance its financial operations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
- Provide technical direction for key monetization initiatives
- Collaborate with GTM and Finance teams to ensure alignment between engineering systems and business needs
- Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
- Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization
Requirements:
- Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
- Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems
- Strong background integrating with external APIs and services
- Experience building platform services used by multiple teams
- Strong data modeling skills for systems requiring transactional consistency
- Knowledge of billing systems, payment processing, or subscription management
- Understanding of financial data security and integrity requirements
- Have led meaningful technical projects from concept to completion
- Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done
- Ability to collaborate effectively with partners in Finance and Sales
- Interest in contributing to Vanta's engineering culture as we grow
- 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