Python Tech Lead

Team: Engineering
Country: United Kingdom

Remote Work Available: Yes


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

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

  • The linchpin connecting technical vision with practical implementation and team delivery
  • Drive the design, evolving and ensuring the long-term health and scalability of our core systems
  • Create high-level and detailed architectural designs for new features and write high-quality, performant Python APIs
  • Drive and own technical architecture discussions and decisions for the platform
  • Lead the deployment and release process, ensuring stability and performance
  • Own the design and maintenance of the backend APIs delivered to the frontend teams
  • Triage bug reports and implement urgent hotfixes as needed
  • Collaborate across the stack with ML, Backend, and Frontend engineers to deliver high-quality, end-to-end features
  • Partner directly with the Product Team to understand requirements, refine the roadmap, and shape the product from a technical perspective
  • Coordinate and align the entire backend team's efforts for technical consistency
  • Design and implement core features and services, leveraging technologies such as Python and SQL
  • Maintain a high standard of code quality, performance, and scalability within the codebase

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience with Python web development
  • 5+ years of experience working with Postgres or an equivalent SQL database
  • Excellent understanding of Python and contemporary backend architectures
  • Excellent English communication skills, both spoken and written
  • Great eye for detail and precision. Bold and willing to speak up if something is wrong
  • Proficiency in designing and developing data-intensive applications

Nice to Have

  • Experience working in early-stage or greenfield product environments
  • Hands-on experience with MLOps tools
  • Exposure to TypeScript or GraphQL
  • University degree in Computer Science or a related field
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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.

Work Where It’s Best for You

Work Anywhere means you can work in an office or at home on any given day. It’s about getting the work done in the way and place that works best for each person. This applies across all locations and departments.

Work Anywhere does not mean work at any time. We have predictable core hours where employees are generally available for meetings and collaboration. Employees are focused and available during core hours.

We invest in our offices to make them places where our employees like to go. If you work in the office three or more days a week, you will have a dedicated office workspace. Our offices function as hubs to draw people in, create social bonds, and where random connections and mixing of ideas happen. We’re investing more in offices, culture, and offsite meetings, not less.

Product teams are organized in regional product hubs for optimal collaboration and live within a time zone of their hub. Our current product hubs are located in Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto. We create opportunities for teams to get together in person regularly.

Customer-facing roles, such as Sales and Professional Services, live near and/or travel to their customers.

When an employee moves within a country it does not cause a change in salary. Where you live impacts you and your family. Not knowing if your compensation will change if you move can cause stress and uncertainty for everyone. We wanted to eliminate that.

Work at Veeva. Work where it’s best for you.

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