Principal Software Engineer - Front End

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.

As a Principal Software Engineer- Front End you will help innovate and streamline how Veeva builds and deploy applications that are being used by tens of thousands of people every day. You will have equal influence to drive the technical direction, be an advisor to development teams and mentor freshly minted Front-End Software Engineers in their new career. Your mission will be to innovate our cloud software that is used by customers to speed up the innovation and delivery of critical treatments and medicines to patients around the globe. It simply doesn’t get any more important than this. 

What You'll Do

• Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications
• Own all aspects of feature implementation from design to delivery
• Design, build and enhance existing components in our internal component library
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to your peers
• Establish and advocate best practices and coding standards
• Regularly lead code reviews to ensure code quality

Requirements

• 12+ years of software development experience at a Saas company
• 8+ years of JavaScript experience, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6
• 5+ years of HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility
• Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries (e.g. React or Vue)
• Proficiency with CSS abstraction layers (e.g. SASS or JSS)
• Experience identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues
• We are looking for strong mentors with a proven record of making your team better
• Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the United States. Veeva will not provide sponsorship at this time

Learn More

• Engineer Perspective: 3 Reasons to Consider Veeva
• Engineering at Veeva

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program

Compensation

• Base pay: $150,000 - $300,000
• 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 salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

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 [email protected].