Full Stack Web Developer

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and a pioneer in industry cloud solutions, dedicated to helping life sciences companies accelerate therapies to patients. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies, we achieved over $3B in revenue last fiscal year, with significant growth potential ahead.

Our core values — Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed — guide us. Veeva made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally committed to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

Embracing a Work Anywhere philosophy, we offer flexibility to work from home or in the office, fostering an environment where you can thrive.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry and making a positive impact on customers, employees, and communities.

The Role: Full Stack Web Developer

As a Full Stack Web Developer on the Veeva Digital Marketing team, you will collaborate with both backend and frontend developers to build and maintain Veeva.com and its associated web properties. Your responsibilities will include developing, managing, and evolving custom WordPress plugins and themes, translating business requirements into functional site features, managing complex API integrations, and ensuring the technical performance and security of our backend architecture.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop maintainable site architectures, contributing to technical direction for specific business requirements.
• Provide accurate estimates for complex builds and collaborate on the long-term roadmap for our web properties.
• Play a central role in migrating regional WordPress sites into a single multi-site network, aligning regional themes to a parent/child architecture to reduce technical debt and unify the brand.
• Build and harden integrations between WordPress and internal/external systems via RESTful APIs, ensuring reliable data flow and system integrity.
• Proactively debug and improve legacy systems, monitoring and optimizing performance, caching, and security, while systematically resolving debug log backlogs.
• Actively engage with frontend and backend members of the Digital Marketing team and other internal stakeholders to clarify requirements, scope projects, and provide clear technical updates.
• Manage a high-volume project and task load, comfortably switching between multiple internal projects daily while maintaining high standards for speed and code quality.
• Advance our engineering culture by contributing to reusable tools and process improvements, documenting code, and participating in knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience engineering large-scale, enterprise WordPress websites.
• Experience developing custom WordPress plugins and themes.
• Advanced PHP expertise.
• Comfortable working within a WordPress multi-site environment, including localized and multi-lingual sites.
• Experience with both the classic WordPress editor and the modern block editor.
• Working knowledge of Git for version control (branching, merging, and code reviews).
• Strong QA mindset, with experience designing systems for site updates that include thorough testing and quality assurance.
• Working knowledge of complex MySQL database structures, including importing/exporting data and optimizing database queries.
• Experience interacting with RESTful APIs and data formats (JSON, XML).
• Experience with WordPress site migrations.
• Self-management skills to operate independently in a fully remote role.

Nice to Have

• Experience with WPML.
• Proficiency using the Unix command line and WP-CLI.
• Broader modern backend and frontend skills (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS).
• Experience writing and maintaining unit tests.
• Experience with AI coding tools such as Gemini CLI or Claude Code.
• Experience with various caching systems and content-delivery networks.

Perks & Benefits

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

Compensation

Base pay: $90,000 - $140,000

The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We determine compensation for each individual based on 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].

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.