As a pioneer in industry cloud and one of the fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies (surpassing $3B in revenue last year), Veeva is on a mission to help life sciences companies accelerate the delivery of life-saving therapies to patients. We're a public benefit corporation (PBC) committed to balancing the interests of our customers, employees, society, and investors, offering a unique opportunity to build impactful solutions that directly contribute to global health.
The Opportunity: As a Principal Software Engineer at Veeva, you will develop and guide the creation of highly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications that empower our customers to operate more efficiently and safely. Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping our technology. You'll mentor and elevate engineers, drive critical technical decisions, and consistently deliver high-quality code that propels our technology forward.
Thrive in our Work Anywhere Environment: We empower you to work from where you thrive – whether that's from home or in the office within Canada or the US – ensuring seamless collaboration within your team's time zone.
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
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
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: 12+ years of proven software development expertise (Java 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 Java, Spring, MySQL, Gradle, Git, Jenkins, AspectJ, Messaging, and Solr/Lucene
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
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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.
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 talent_accommodations@veeva.com. 
