Principal Software Developer - Platform

China - Beijing on site Until 9/12/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 27, 2025 Last posted July 14, 2026
Job description
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.
 
Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva is looking for a Principal Software Developer to join our team in Beijing. We will provide opportunities for the engineer with 10 years+ working experience, This engineer will be responsible for China CRM's the applications and platform architecture of our SaaS cloud products.

What You’ll Do

  • Collaborate with Product Management and Development team members on technical design and problem solving to come up with compelling solutions to problems
  • Responsible for the architecture design of applications and platform in life science industry
  • Deliver high quality code and participate in code review, improve team’s technical level
  • Work in a passionate team environment within a highly successful company that is growing fast

Requirements

  • 10+ years of commercial software development in Java or Python
  • Rich architecture and platform building experience, has strong capability to understand and realize business requirement with suitable technical solutions
  • Current hands-on development experience with open-source technologies: Spring Cloud, Django, Celery, PyTest, MySQL, Git, Jenkins, Linux
  • Have high standards for technology and be willing to share and guide team members
  • Good English communication skills - both oral and written
  • BS or above in computer science/engineering or equivalent

Nice to Have

  • Experience with AWS infrastructure, Ali Cloud, Salesforce platform development
  • Experience in front-end development, specially development on Wechat
  • Knowledgeable on CRM or life science domain
  • Experience in DevOps development, proficient in Terraform, Ansible

Perks & Benefits

  • Fitness Fee
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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.
About this role

Summary

Designs and develops SaaS platform architecture for life sciences at Veeva

Job title

Principal Software Developer - Platform

Experience level

10+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Beijing, China, no remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

JavaPythonSpring CloudDjangoCeleryPyTestMySQLGitJenkinsLinux

Preferred skills

AWSAli CloudSalesforcefront-end developmentCRMDevOpsTerraformAnsible

Specializations

JavaPythonSaaScloudarchitecture
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Beijing, China

On-site City