Python Engineer (Remote)

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

At Veeva Link, we're building the intelligence layer for life sciences, creating connected data applications that accelerate drug development and significantly improve patient outcomes. Our core belief: combining the highest quality data with state-of-the-art software delivers immense value.

We believe execution matters most. Progress comes from speed, accuracy, and quality in what we build every day. Our engineering approach emphasizes clear product definitions leading to meticulous technical designs. We leverage a modern tech stack to deliver inherently reliable applications and a great user experience.

Our work spans two critical areas:

Data-Driven Insights

We develop sophisticated applications that map and understand global scientific and medical expertise, providing high-impact insights and AI-generated intelligence. Engineers here tackle complex data modeling, entity resolution, and advanced machine learning.

Intelligent Business Workflows

We engineer workflow applications powered by our data, using AI to find patterns and route information precisely. This involves designing scalable pipelines and intelligent automation.

Why Join Veeva Link?

Build products that create significant positive impact in global healthcare.

Work in an environment led by a CEO with an engineering background.

Work Anywhere means you can work in an office or at home on any given day.

Empowered Autonomy: Tech decisions are made within teams, giving engineers significant autonomy.

Collaborate with highly skilled teammates who take pride in achieving great outcomes. Excellence matters.

What You'll Do

• This role is critical in building the core infrastructure that powers our product experience. Your work directly impacts performance, reliability, and the overall user experience
• You’ll tackle complex challenges like automating business-critical workflows, building new user-facing features, or improving API performance. All with the autonomy to test, iterate, and innovate
• You’ll own full projects, from design to deployment. You’ll lead technical initiatives, drive improvements in system design, and contribute to long-term engineering strategy
• Build scalable web applications utilizing open-source tools and technologies
• Build and use REST and GraphQL APIs
• Be able to work independently while communicating progress to other members of the team
• Participate in the technical planning, user story/technical acceptance creation, and implementation
• Identify and solve complex problems
• Plan technical architectures that minimize or eliminate performance problems, complexity, or solution fragility

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience building scalable and reliable web applications is required
• Experience with Python and FastAPI or another comparable Python web framework
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Unit test and debugging skills
• 3+ years work experience with RDBMS such as MySQL or PostgreSQL 
• Independent, self-managed and motivated
• Good command of the English language

Nice to Have

• Experience with any of the following would be a plus: GraphQL, React, Elasticsearch, Redis, Celery, AWS (or any other Cloud provider).
• Have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems

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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.

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 talent_accommodations@veeva.com.