Senior Software Engineer - Python

Veeva Systems; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life insurance

Flexible PTO & holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving

Job summary

Veeva Systems is building a new AI-driven platform for life sciences safety, regulatory, and clinical development. You will help grow a codebase and engineering organization from the ground up, wearing multiple hats and applying AI to improve productivity and innovation.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work with live customers within a year and influence the engineering culture, mentoring others while delivering scalable SaaS capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of proven software development experience.
• Experience building high-scale enterprise SaaS cloud apps.
• Proven track record architecting high-volume products.
• Proficient with Python, Git, FastAPI and Pydantic.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.

Responsibilities

• Own all stages of feature implementation from design to deployment and maintenance.
• Collaborate with Product and Development on technical design.
• Analyze complex problems quickly to accelerate robust solutions.
• Promote engineering best practices and AI-assisted approaches.
• Provide comprehensive code reviews for engineers of all levels.
• Mentor engineering talent to build team capability.

Skills

Software development

Enterprise SaaS

Scalability

Open source

English communication

Mentorship

Fast-paced

Work ethic

Integrity

Tools

Python

Git

FastAPI

Pydantic

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 $3B 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

As Senior Software Engineer for a new product within Veeva, you will be a founding member of a team building our next major AI-driven platform — one that will transform how Life Sciences companies manage safety, regulatory, and clinical development.

You will influence and help grow a codebase and engineering organization from the ground up, wearing multiple hats across the engineering organization. The team will be AI-first in two meaningful ways: using AI to drive engineering productivity and strong engineering discipline, and building a product that applies AI in genuinely innovative ways to problems that matter.

Within your first year, you will have live customers on the platform and a thriving, growing team behind it - directly accelerating how customers bring life-saving products to market.

What You'll Do

• Full Feature Ownership: Own all stages of feature implementation, from design and development through deployment, production support, and maintenance. Daily code contribution using AI assistance for productivity
• Drive Solutions:Collaborate with Product Management and Development on technical design and problem-solving to deliver great code
• Rapid Problem Solving:Quickly analyze complex problems, identifying knowns and unknowns, to accelerate the path to robust solutions
• Develop Best Practices:Define, promote, and mentor on engineering best practices and coding standards, including the latest approaches to AI assisted engineering
• Expert Code Review:Provide comprehensive code reviews for engineers of all experience levels
• Strategic Mentorship:Develop the skills of engineering talent through structured mentorship

Requirements

• Seasoned Software Engineer:5+ years of proven software development expertise (Production level Python development required)
• Enterprise SaaS Leader:Extensive experience developing high-scale enterprise SaaS cloud applications
• Scalability Expert:Proven track record of architecting and building high-volume products at scale
• Open Source Proficiency:Hands-on development experience with current open-source tools and technologies, including Python, Git, FastAPI, Pydantic
• Fast-Paced Adaptability:Highly driven and flexible, enjoys a fast-paced start-up environment, and believes in having fun along the way
• Mentorship:Proven ability to mentor and elevate team performance, fostering growth and excellence
• High work ethic:Veeva is a hard-working company
• High integrity and honesty:Veeva is a PBC and a “do the right thing” company. We expect that from all employees
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills:Engineering is not all about the code, it’s also about communication
• Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the United States. Veeva will not provide sponsorship at this time

Interviewing with Veeva

We value your time and believe in a transparent hiring process. Here is the process you can expect.

• Within 3 days, you will receive a link to a personality assessment administered by a third party, unless you have already completed it with Veeva previously.
• Once you complete the assessment, our team will review your full application package and follow up via email with our decision.
• If moving to the interview stage, the process is as follows:
  1. A conversation with the hiring manager
  2. A technical/coding skills exercise
  3. A final panel interview with team members and senior leaders
• Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision.

Perks & Benefits

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

Compensation

• Base pay: $110,000 - $270,000
• 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.

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].