Senior Platform Engineer

Veeva Systems, Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading life sciences technology firm is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design and build user-friendly internal tools and applications. This role demands end-to-end ownership from React frontend design to Python/TypeScript backend services within a modern AWS architecture. Candidates should have 5+ years of full-stack experience, with strong proficiency in JavaScript, React, and cloud management. Veeva supports flexible work arrangements, offering competitive compensation and a commitment to employee success.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance

PTO and company-paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a full-stack or backend-heavy engineering role.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with the ability to engage non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript and React with an understanding of state management.

Responsibilities

• Drive user-centered design and engage with internal consultants.
• Architect, develop, and maintain full-stack applications.
• Design, deploy, and operate services using AWS Lambda and AWS ECS.

Skills

User-Centric Mindset

Frontend Expertise

Backend Expertise

Cloud Proficiency

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD Expertise

Autonomy

Tools

React

Python

TypeScript

AWS

Terraform

GitLab CI

Docker

Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

We are looking for a user-obsessed Senior Full Stack Engineer with a proven track record of designing and building intuitive internal tools and applications on modern data platforms. You will translate complex data challenges into powerful, user-friendly interfaces, acting as a true solution-builder who deeply understands and anticipates user needs.

This role demands end-to-end ownership—from React frontend design to robust Python/TypeScript backend services, all within a modern, serverless AWS architecture managed with Terraform and GitLab CI. You will contribute significantly to the selection and design of our core infrastructure for building future internal applications, setting the standard for scalable and reliable solutions that directly empower our team of 60+ analytics consultants. Veeva’s Analytics Business Consulting Team is dedicated to assisting our customers by creating and implementing data and analytics solutions that address key challenges faced by modern life sciences organizations.

What You’ll Do

• Drive User-Centered Design: Engage directly with our internal consultants to gather requirements, understand their workflows, and build intuitive, user-centric tools that enhance productivity and solve complex problems
• Build End-to-End Solutions: Architect, develop, and maintain full-stack applications, writing clean frontend code with React and building robust backend services and APIs with Python or TypeScript
• Embrace Serverless & Containers: Design, deploy, and operate services using AWS Lambda for event-driven logic and AWS ECS with Fargate for containerized applications
• Own Your Infrastructure with Terraform: Provision, configure, and manage your applications’ AWS infrastructure exclusively with Terraform, ensuring environments are automated, reproducible, and scalable
• Automate with GitLab CI: Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI to test and deploy serverless and container-based applications safely and efficiently
• Ensure Operational Health: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance and infrastructure, ensuring high availability and security across the stack

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of hands‑on experience in a full-stack or backend-heavy engineering role
• User-Centric Mindset: Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with a proven ability to work with non-technical stakeholders. Demonstrate strong user empathy and a passion for building tools that people love to use
• Frontend Expertise: Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript and React, with a solid understanding of state management (e.g., Redux, Zustand) and reusable UI components
• Backend Expertise: Deep knowledge of Python (e.g., FastAPI, Flask) or TypeScript (Node.js) for building scalable, production-grade APIs and backend services
• Cloud Proficiency: Extensive hands‑on experience deploying and managing production applications on AWS using services like AWS Lambda, ECS with Fargate, and API Gateway
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong, hands‑on experience managing production cloud infrastructure with Terraform
• CI/CD Expertise: Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, specifically with GitLab CI
• Autonomy: Self‑starter mentality with the ability to take ownership of projects, make pragmatic technical decisions, and see them through to completion

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal tools or applications for business users, analysts, or consultants
• Deep experience with containerization using Docker
• Knowledge of AWS event‑driven services like SQS, SNS, and EventBridge
• Experience building applications that interact with data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) or data lakes

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• PTO and company‑paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program

Compensation

• Base pay: $100,000 - $200,000 CAD
• The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].