Principal Software Engineer - Python
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Principal
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Enterprise
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No BS summary
Principal-level backend engineer focused on Python for a founding team building an AI-driven life-sciences platform. Must be able to design and grow codebases and mentor/lead engineering efforts. Remote (Work Anywhere) with US-headquartered company; likely expected to collaborate with Bay Area HQ.
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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 As Principal Software Engineer for a new product within Veeva, you will be a founding member of a team building our next major AI-driven platform — one that will transform how Life Sciences companies manage safety, regulatory, and clinical development.
You will influence and help grow a codebase and engineering organization from the ground up, wearing multiple hats across the engineering organization. The team will be AI-first in two meaningful ways: using AI to drive engineering productivity and strong engineering discipline, and building a product that applies AI in genuinely innovative ways to problems that matter.
Within your first year, you will have live customers on the platform and a thriving, growing team behind it - directly accelerating how customers bring life-saving products to market.
What you'll do
- Be a founding member of a team building a new AI-driven platform for life sciences.
- Influence and help grow a codebase and engineering organization from the ground up.
- Wear multiple hats across the engineering organization.
- Use AI to drive engineering productivity and enforce strong engineering discipline.
- Build a product that applies AI to safety, regulatory, and clinical development problems.
- Deliver live customers on the platform within the first year and help grow the team.
What they require
- Principal Software Engineer level (senior technical leadership, implied by title).
- Experience building and growing codebases and engineering organisations.
- Experience applying AI/ML in production products (implied by role focus).
- Ability to operate in a founding-team environment and wear multiple hats.
Benefits
- Work Anywhere (flexibility to work from home or in the office)
- Equal opportunity employer and accommodation for applicants with disabilities
Veeva Systems is building the industry cloud for Life Sciences to help companies work in a more efficient and connected way. Veeva Business Consulting focuses on making the life sciences industry more efficient and effective through software, data, and consulting working together.
What people say about this company
3.5/ 5
- Employees appreciate the company's focus on the life sciences industry and its mission.
- Many reviews mention a collaborative and supportive work culture.
- Some employees report issues with management and communication.