Job Specifications
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 their productivity and solve their 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 your 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 your 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. You must 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 building 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: A 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: $110,000 - $270,000 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
About the Company
Veeva Systems Inc. is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva has more than 875 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Visit the Jobs section for open positions and remember that correspondence to new applicants and existing candidates will only come from an off...
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