Expert-level proficiency with modern front-end technologies including JavaScript, CSS, TypeScript, and React., Deep knowledge of core browser APIs and hands-on experience with modern front-end build tooling., Track record of designing and maintaining frameworks or libraries for engineers., Ability to drive technical strategy and translate business goals into engineering outcomes..
Key responsibilities:
Drive architecture and development for key front-end subsystems from early concepts to scalable solutions.
Co-author a custom UI framework and create foundational tools for application teams.
Mentor engineers and raise front-end craft through expertise in TypeScript and React.
Partner with product and design to create elegant user experiences on the enterprise platform.
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Veeva Systems Inc. is a leader in cloud-based software for the global life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva has more than 875 customers, ranging from the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Veeva is growing to 10,000 employees by 2025, so visit the Jobs section for open positions and remember that correspondence to new applicants and existing candidates will only come from an official @veeva.com email address.
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.
We’re looking for a Principal Front-End Engineer to join our enterprise-platform team at an early stage. Working shoulder-to-shoulder with other principal engineers, you’ll take ownership of key components of our framework and application. You’ll also help guide our processes and culture for years to come. If shaping a greenfield codebase alongside experienced peers sounds energizing, we’d love to meet you.
What You'll Do
Drive architecture and development for key front-end subsystems like administration, workflow, and reporting, taking them from early concepts to mature, scalable solutions
Co-author our custom UI framework, creating the foundational tools and documentation that will empower application and customer engineering teams to build faster and more consistently
Mentor engineers across the team, sharing deep expertise in TypeScript and React and raising our front-end craft
Champion a culture of quality by implementing and overseeing a comprehensive testing strategy, ensuring we ship robust, low-drama features
Partner with product and design to turn complex business needs into elegant, practical user experiences on our new enterprise platform
Requirements
Expert-level proficiency with modern front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS, TypeScript, and React
Deep knowledge of core browser APIs, including data storage (local/session/cookies), iframes, and web workers
Hands-on experience with modern front-end build tooling (e.g., Vite, ESBuild, Rollup, Webpack)
Track record of designing, building, and maintaining frameworks or libraries for other engineers
History of long-term commitment to a product, having guided it from its initial design to a mature, successful state
Ability to drive technical strategy while translating high-level business goals into concrete engineering outcomes
Success in a fast-paced, greenfield environment, acting as a key partner in defining both product and culture
Nice to Have
Experience architecting and delivering complex, scalable features for enterprise-grade, multi-tenant SaaS applications
Exposure to full stack development, especially in Rust
Familiarity with modern DevOps practices and tools, including hands-on experience with designing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployment
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.
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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.
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