Engineering Manager, Frontend Platform

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 are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Frontend Platform team. This team’s mission is to build tooling for all engineers to easily ship and maintain quality and perforant frontend experiences that are resilient to changing business needs. By focusing on fast web builds, reliable testing, app performance monitoring, and solid versioning and modularity in our codebase, this team helps lay the foundation for all engineers to contribute better code, faster.

In this role, you’ll be focusing on foundational improvements to and technology investments in our frontend tech stack to make all engineers more productive, and our web client more performant. You will also play a key role in shaping the culture of frontend engineering and talent at Vanta.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for setting strategy, leading your team to deliver results consistently and sustainably, growing and developing talented engineers, and cultivating a healthy, results-driven culture on your team to deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale.

Vanta’s business, technology surface, and team are growing—this provides a career-defining opportunity for you to grow as an engineering leader. It’s essential that we accelerate Vanta’s engineering discipline through an innovative developer environment while investing in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale to more customers and product lines. You’ll leverage your past experience and play a crucial role in laying the groundwork for a successful engineering organization, contributing to developing foundational processes that enable our entire team, and organization, to scale. Our business has an incredible product-market fit and effectively monetized since the day we signed our first customer.

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

What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta:

• Manage and mentor a team of engineers focused on developing world-class developer productivity tools and infrastructure.

• Define and implement strategies for improvements in frontend infrastructure, developer tooling, and release processes to enable rapid innovation while upholding high-security standards.

• Drive the adoption and integration of tools, services, and APIs built by the team across the codebase.

• Stay abreast of emerging web and frontend technologies and assess their applicability in streamlining development processes and client performance.

• Work closely with stakeholders to deeply understand developer and client needs, identifying and implementing solutions that support secure and efficient development.

• Design and refine processes that enhance team operations and continuously improve developer productivity as the organization scales.

• Champion best practices for web clients and frontend stacks.

How to be successful in this role:

• 3+ years of experience managing technical teams of six or more engineers.

• Proven track record in building and improving frontend infrastructure and tooling for developers.

• Deep knowledge of modern development practices, developer tooling, and current web best practices and industry standards.

• Strong leadership abilities with experience in hiring, mentoring, and growing senior engineers.

• Excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders and articulate the value of frontend infra and developer tools.

• Experience planning, scoping, and executing on cross-org migrations with an emphasis on limiting migration cost to consumers.

Things that may allow you to standout:

• Experience leading a frontend or web-specific platform team

• Experience leading senior and staff level engineers

What you can expect as a Vantan:

• Industry-competitive compensation

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends

• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility

• 401(k) matching

• Flexible work hours and location

• Open PTO policy

• 11 paid holidays in the US

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, and Sydney

• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

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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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.