Senior Software Engineer - Backend
About The Position
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 passionate engineer with a strong sense of ownership to lead the development of backend services for a new product on our New Markets team. You should enjoy working on 0-1 products and feel at home in a fast-paced, agile environment with complex problems to solve. In this role, you will collaborate closely with front-end engineers, designers, product managers, and senior leadership to develop and maintain our backend services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer
- Proficiency in Python-based backend development
- Proficiency in SQL, preferably with SQLAlchemy
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to articulate ideas and thoughts clearly
- Strong product sense, with the ability to view problems from the user's perspective
- A strong sense of ownership; takes initiative to address issues when they arise
- Strong mentorship skills
- This role requires you to be in the PST or MST time zone
- Must have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States. Veeva will not provide sponsorship at this time
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Kubernetes/EKS
- Familiarity with OpenSearch
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL
- Experience with web front-end or mobile app development
Responsibilities
- Develop a scalable, high-performance, easy-to-use backend that enables the New Markets team to launch stellar products
- Provide technical leadership and help raise the bar for the entire team
- Choose the right technologies, set coding standards, conduct code reviews, and offer technical mentorship
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and leadership to plan and execute the product roadmap
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
- Retirement programs
- 1% charitable giving program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Publishing Industries
Education Level
No Education Listed
