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Veeva Systems

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SaaS • Healthcare Insurance • Pharmaceuticals

Veeva Systems is a cloud-computing company focused on the global life sciences industry. It provides software, data, and consulting services to streamline research and development, quality management, regulatory operations, and commercial processes. Veeva's solutions encompass clinical trials, regulatory submissions, drug safety management, and commercial execution to support life sciences enterprises in their mission to improve and extend life.

1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💊 Pharmaceuticals

📋 Description

• This is the foundational role for our new product, where you architect the platform and define the engineering culture from day one. You will directly determine team agility, product scalability, and the effective integration of AI to deliver core customer value • You have a greenfield mandate to build a modern platform from scratch, granting full ownership over architecture and team composition. This high-visibility role involves multidisciplinary leadership that shapes product strategy through innovative AI integration • You own the technical architecture and strategy, defining everything from APIs to cloud infrastructure and AI implementation. You will lead and mentor a cross-functional team, establishing the processes and quality standards needed to deliver high-impact, reliable features • Define Architectural Strategy: Use strong system and API design skills to make decisive architectural choices, ensuring our solutions are robust, scalable, and efficient • Guide and Deliver: Lead cross-functional engineering teams to deliver complex, data-intensive, or AI-enabled products, ensuring project momentum and high-quality outcomes even as requirements evolve • Cultivate a High-Trust Environment: Champion a people-first, low-ego, and highly collaborative culture, acting with high integrity and guiding the team toward pragmatic, high-value solutions • Drive Technical Excellence: Apply expertise across the stack, from modern Python backends and React/frontend architecture to leveraging ML/AI workflows and data pipelines for production • Operationalize Stability: Ensure operational readiness through familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP), CI/CD practices, instrumentation, and monitoring

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a dedicated team lead role • Strong demonstrated expertise with modern Python backend frameworks • Solid understanding of React and contemporary frontend architecture • Proven experience delivering data-intensive or AI-enabled products • Leadership Style: Collaborative, humble, and possessing the ability to create clarity among ambiguity • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills are essential for both technical documentation and team alignment.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.