Staff Software Engineer, Growth – Self Serve

Vanta

. Design, build, and evolve reliable customer-facing software and shared platform capabilities .

Posted 11/3/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $260,000 - $306,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong technical leadership in building customer-facing SaaS products, leveraging customer insights and quantitative metrics to drive product outcomes. Capable of guiding engineering teams through ownership and coaching while managing complex initiatives across multiple teams.

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Technical LeadershipCustomer-Facing SaaS Product DevelopmentTypeScriptReactNode.js

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Hard Skills

Technical Roadmap DevelopmentProduct AnalyticsCustomer Insight UtilizationCoaching EngineersMetrics Measurement

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationProblem-SolvingAdaptability

Tools & Technologies

AI Utilization

Industry Keywords

Growth ProductOnboardingActivationSelf-Service JourneysSecurityCompliance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptNode.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and evolve reliable customer-facing software and shared platform capabilities
Understand customer research and product analytics to identify friction across evaluation, trials, onboarding, first value, purchasing, and expansion
Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives from technical roadmap and architecture through delivery and adoption
Sequence work across teams and use conversion, activation, time-to-value, retention, and expansion metrics to measure impact
Give engineers ownership of important work and coach them through scope, technical choices, and collaboration
Own technical direction for major Growth product and platform domains
Make tradeoffs between customer value, delivery speed, reliability, and long-term flexibility
Partner with Product, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and engineering teams
Clarify decisions and dependencies, resolve disagreements, and communicate technical approaches

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership turning ambiguous goals into shipped, adopted results across multiple teams
Strong product judgment and experience building customer-facing SaaS products, ideally across growth, onboarding, activation, or self-service journeys
Ability to use customer insight and quantitative signals to assess product outcomes and guide iteration
Ability to develop other engineers through ownership, coaching, and feedback
Comfort working through ambiguity, learning unfamiliar domains, and making progress with a bias toward action
Interest in learning about security and compliance; prior experience is not required
Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify skills and strengthen outcomes
Experience with TypeScript, React, and Node.js
Legal authorization to work in the location where the role is based

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 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