Python Backend Developer

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

Veeva Link supports the life sciences industry by building connected data applications to improve research and patient outcomes. It helps professionals find the right people, e. g. clinical trials, education programs, or advisory boards. This streamlined access helps to reduce the time-to-market of essential drugs, conduct trials with the most relevant experts in the respective field, and spread information about new treatments to key people in the life science community. You can read more about Veeva Link on our product pages at https://www.veeva.com/products/veeva-link/. As a member of our team, you will contribute to creating and maintaining an enterprise data platform that is one of the key elements for data curation at Veeva Link and is deeply connected with the general data platform. Our mission is to empower and optimize manual data curation by building an intuitive web application with scalable and generic components where thousands of data curators achieve their throughput, efficiency, and quality goals. We value end-to-end ownership, rational thinking, and an analytical mindset. You take responsibility for features and innovation using SOLID and clean software principles, take part in the architectural enhancement process, and care for the quality of the outcome. Monitoring, metrics, and general observability are part of the feature design process.

What You'll Do

• Develop new functionality for the data curation platform
• Implement improvements to existing functionalities
• Integrate software components into a full solution
• Work with very large data sets
• Focus on application performance
• Analyze feature requirements, provide technical feedback and estimations

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience developing web services with Python
• Very strong understanding of Python and its core libraries, with experience in at least one major Python framework (FastAPI, Django, or Flask)
• Very good understanding of data modeling and storage using SQL and/or NoSQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar)
• Experience developing own products in an agile company
• Experience deploying software and managing infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns (MVC, microservices, Hexagonal/Onion architectures)
• Proficiency in designing and developing APIs and building data-intensive applications
• Excellent testing, debugging, and documentation skills
• Excellent communication skills in English
• You are proactive, able to communicate progress and delays, to work autonomously, and can take care of technical issues outside of their expertise
• Located in Spain, Portugal, or Germany

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with cloud technology stack (AWS, GCP)
• Advanced knowledge of MongoDB (e.g., complex aggregations, performance tuning)
• Knowledge of modern web frameworks (Angular, VueJS, or similar)

Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Fitness reimbursement
• Veeva Work-Anywhere