Senior Search Developer

About Veeva Systems

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

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

• This role works with the backbone of our ML and AI services that power engaging user experiences.
• Working from end-to-end on live production services. Not just rank-tuning or query optimizations, and not theoretical. The work you do will directly impact our customers' day-to-day experiences.
• Define the best approach to solve NLP and information retrieval problems.
• Build data pipelines and first-rate search experiences. Test and Validate services. Deploy and monitor solutions for impact.
• Build scalable web services to orchestrate and surface underlying Search and ML models.
• Mine usage data to power features and guide development.
• Participate in the technical planning, user story/technical acceptance creation, and implementation.
• Plan technical architectures that minimize or eliminate performance problems, complexity, or solution fragility.
• Work independently and mentor more junior team members.
• Identify and solve complex problems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience building scalable and reliable search applications.
• Expert-level Python.
• Knowledge of Search and Clickstream analytics.
• Ability to mentor and share knowledge with team members.
• Independent, self-managed, and motivated.
• Good command of the English language.

Nice to Have

• Additional technical experience with any of the following is a plus: Elasticsearch, Vector Search, Recommendation Engines, Redis, Notification Services, AWS (or any other Cloud provider).
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems.

Key skills/competency

• Senior Search Developer
• Python
• Search applications
• Scalable web services
• Machine Learning
• AI
• Data pipelines
• Information retrieval
• NLP
• Elasticsearch