Python Backend Engineer - OpenData

Veeva Systems, Inc.; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Full Stack Product Developer to join their mission-driven team. This role offers the chance to build impactful products in a greenfield environment, focusing on a data stewardship platform that enhances collaboration among data stewards. You will work alongside a talented team in an agile setting, directly influencing the development of features from concept to deployment. This innovative firm promotes a flexible work culture, allowing you to thrive in your preferred environment, whether at home or in the office. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a difference in the life sciences industry, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-stack web development experience required.
• Strong understanding of Python and experience with major frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop key features for the data curation platform.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and solve complex technical challenges.

Skills

Python

Full-stack web development

Problem-solving

Data modeling

Software design patterns

Tools

FastAPI

Django

Flask

Postgres

MongoDB

React.js

Angular

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

Are you passionate about building impactful products in a greenfield environment? Our mission is to build a data stewardship platform that will streamline the OpenData data curation workflows where Product Managers and over 1,000 data stewards worldwide collaborate to achieve their goals of data coverage and quality.

As a Full Stack Product Developer, you’ll collaborate with a highly skilled team of engineers to build features from concept to deployment. You will work in an agile environment, directly impacting users in a rapidly growing, market-leading life sciences company.

This is a Work Anywhere position – you can choose to work remotely or in one of our offices.

What You'll Do

• Develop key features for the data curation platform
• Contribute to architectural decisions
• Solve complex technical challenges working with large datasets
• Analyze feature requirements, provide technical feedback and estimations
• Drive improvements in the development lifecycle

Requirements

• 4+ years of full-stack web development experience
• Natural problem solver, excelling at uncovering problems, formulating hypotheses, and driving the entire process from concept to execution
• Very strong understanding of Python and its core libraries, with experience in at least one major Python framework (FastAPI, Django, or Flask)
• Very good understanding of data modeling and storage using SQL and/or NoSQL databases (Postgres, MongoDB)
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns (MVC, microservices, Hexagonal/Onion architectures)

Nice to Have

• Practical experience building, deploying, and scaling containerized web applications in cloud environments
• Experience working with modern web frameworks (React.js, Angular, or similar)
• Background in designing and developing data-intensive web applications

#RemoteUK

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

As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.

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].