Senior Backend Software Engineer, Integrations Platform

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About the role

  • Senior Backend Engineer building Vanta’s trust automation integrations platform. Designing scalable APIs, authentication, and data-ingestion primitives for over 400 integrations.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical strategy and direction for critical platform surface areas
  • Design and evolve APIs, primitives, and self-service golden paths for internal teams, partners, and customers
  • Own authentication, data-ingestion, and schema-evolution primitives for secure, reliable integrations
  • Build secure, documented, scalable backend services and developer tooling, including CI/CD
  • Drive performance, operational excellence, and SDLC best practices
  • Make and defend buy-vs-build and one-way-door decisions
  • Mentor and uplevel teammates and establish standardized design patterns
  • Build with TypeScript, React, and Node.js and use AI tools to accelerate development and workflows
  • Develop the Integration Platform powering Vanta’s trust automation ecosystem and over 400 integrations

Requirements

  • 8+ years of backend development building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant systems
  • Deep expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication protocols (OAuth, API keys, JWT), and security best practices
  • Experience evolving core APIs, SDKs, and platform abstractions
  • Experience building resilient data ingestion from external systems
  • Experience with integrations across cloud providers, HRIS platforms, identity providers, and code repositories
  • Knowledge of rate limiting, retries, idempotency, webhooks, and handling schema drift
  • Experience designing for scale, reliability, and failure modes
  • Experience leading teams and complex projects and influencing decisions across the organization
  • Experience building sample integrations, POCs, AI Skills, documentation, and workshops
  • Open to using AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
  • Bonus: startup or bias-for-action environments, greenfield work, multi-region or Gov deployments, and prior experience in security or compliance products

Benefits

  • Industry-competitive salary and equity
  • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
  • Pension contribution
  • 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
  • Flexible work hours and location
  • 21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave
  • 11 company-paid holidays
  • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudGraphQLJavaScriptNode.jsReactSDLCTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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