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# Development Manager at Veeva Systems

- **Company:** Veeva Systems
- **Location:** Dalian, China
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/veeva/e0f5efd0-4641-4de0-99cf-c1e0a223e81d

## 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

We are looking for an experienced and technically rigorous Development Manager to lead the end-to-end engineering and product delivery of our core software solutions. In this role, you will bridge technical architecture with product vision across modern tech stacks (Python, Java, Vue.js, and multi-cloud environments) while driving the practical integration of Generative AI across the SDLC. Additionally, you will champion the operationalization of production-grade AI Agents and custom Skills to power intelligent product capabilities.

## What You’ll Do

- Team Leadership & Talent Development: Lead capacity planning, recruitment, onboarding, and structure of the engineering team; mentor developers, technical workshops, and career development frameworks to foster engineering excellence.
- Architecture & Engineering Delivery: Direct end-to-end technical selection and system architecture across Python, Java, and Vue.js frameworks, ensuring software systems are modular, highly scalable, and secure.
- AI-Augmented SDLC Integration: Champion and embed AI tooling directly into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)—including automated testing, code review workflows, and developer productivity tooling—to measurably boost engineering velocity and code quality.
- Agent & Skill Productization: Architect and deliver production-grade AI Agents and custom extensible Skills/Tools, leveraging patterns such as Function Calling, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and memory management to solve complex business scenarios.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Governance: Design and govern resilient cloud architectures on AWS and Alibaba Cloud, overseeing containerization, service orchestration, and high-throughput middleware systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis).
- Data Modeling & Standards: Establish enterprise data modeling standards (conceptual, logical, and physical), lead database schema optimization, and ensure consistent, high-performance data access across relational and non-relational storage engines.
- Cross-Functional Delivery: Partner closely with Product Managers, algorithm engineers, QA, and domain specialists to manage agile sprints (Scrum/Kanban), mitigate technical risks, and ensure predictable, high-quality milestone delivery.

## Requirements

- Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; 5+ years of software development and system architecture experience, with 2+ years of technical team leadership or project management experience.
- Technical Stack: Deep proficiency in Python and/or Java with solid hands-on engineering experience in the other; proven expertise with Vue.js (Vue 2/3, Pinia/Vuex) and enterprise frameworks (such as Spring Boot/Cloud, FastAPI, or Django).
- Cloud & Middleware: Strong working knowledge of cloud-native services on AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, RDS, S3) and/or Alibaba Cloud (e.g., ACK, RDS, OSS), alongside in-depth experience configuring and tuning middleware (Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- AI in SDLC Practice: Demonstrated hands-on track record of integrating AI tools into daily SDLC workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, internal DevOps bots) with measurable gains in delivery efficiency.
- AI Agent & Skill Development: Practical experience designing and deploying production-level AI Agents or custom agentic skills, utilizing frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Dify, or Semantic Kernel, with solid command of tool calling and prompt engineering.
- Data Systems & Modeling: Proven mastery of database schema design and data modeling specifications across mainstream relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases, including indexing, query optimization, and high-concurrency storage strategies.
- Leadership & Communication: Exceptional problem-solving and architectural governance skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and translate business goals into actionable engineering roadmaps.

## Nice to Have

- Domain Expertise: Professional software development background in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, or Clinical Healthcare informatics.
- Compliance & Data Standards: Familiarity with healthcare/life science data standards and regulatory compliance frameworks (e.g., GxP, HIPAA, HL7/FHIR, healthcare data anonymization/security).
- Advanced AI & Vector Data: Hands-on exposure to Vector Databases (e.g., Milvus, pgvector, Pinecone) or experience implementing multi-agent coordination architectures.

## Perks & Benefits

- Grants for fitness, communication and heating
- Healthy, free, provided snacks

#LI-MidSenior

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 Veeva Systems

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Veeva Systems builds the industry cloud for life sciences — cloud software, AI, industry-specific data, and consulting that help pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies bring therapies to market faster.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: VEEV), converted to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) in February 2021 — the first public company to do so
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, USA (4280 Hacienda Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Peter Gassner and Matt Wallach

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Life sciences technology / healthcare IT — serving R&D, clinical, regulatory, quality, safety, and commercial functions
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise — pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies; over 1,000 customers globally
- **Mission/purpose**: "Building the Industry Cloud for Life Sciences" — helping the industry become more efficient and effective so it can focus on creating quality products in shorter time frames while maintaining compliance

## Products & Services
- **Veeva Vault Platform**: The core cloud platform with applications for Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and Safety — consolidating critical processes in one central system to accelerate study timelines, streamline regulatory processes, and unify quality and safety operations.
- **Veeva AI**: Agentic AI added to the Veeva Vault platform, with deep, industry-specific agents for Veeva applications — designed to connect sponsors, sites, patients, and regulators more effectively and increase industry productivity.
- **Commercial Solutions**: Applications, data, and analytics for marketing and commercial teams to maximize campaign performance.
- **Consulting Services**: Business consulting alongside software, data, and AI to support customers' most critical business processes from R&D through commercialization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded (NYSE: VEEV); specific market cap not stated in cited sources.
- **Key Metric**: 975+ customers (careers site) / 1,000+ customers (corporate site); close to 8,000 employees at end of fiscal 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in cited sources; as a public company with an extensive partner ecosystem supporting its cloud solutions.
- **Growth Signals**: Added a net 637 employees in fiscal 2026, ending the year with close to 8,000 employees; launched Veeva AI as a major portfolio expansion; has grown steadily "without the need for significant layoffs historically"; product hubs span Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industry-specific depth**: Unlike generic enterprise software, Veeva is built exclusively for the highly regulated life sciences industry, covering the full value chain from clinical through commercial.
- **Public Benefit Corporation structure**: Legally obligated to balance shareholder interests with customers, employees, partners, the life sciences industry, and communities — a durable differentiator in talent and customer trust.
- **Scale and switching costs**: Deep integration across R&D, quality, regulatory, and commercial workflows for over 1,000 customers creates significant lock-in.
- **No non-compete agreements**: Veeva does not require employees to sign non-competes and has taken legal action to fight their unfair use — a strong cultural and recruiting advantage.
- **Clear values in priority order**: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, Speed.

## Strategic Focus
- **Industry cloud expansion**: Continuing to build out the full industry cloud — software, AI, data, and consulting — to become "essential to and appreciated by" the life sciences industry.
- **Veeva AI rollout**: Making agentic AI a transformative layer across the Vault platform to increase innovation and productivity from drug development through commercialization.
- **High-quality job creation**: Investing in people with tech-enabled hiring tools, manager training (with direct CEO involvement), and fair, flexible employment — while maintaining steady, measured growth without significant layoffs.
- **Long-term durable growth**: Operating as a PBC with a commitment to the life sciences industry's critical functions.

## Why Work Here
- **Work Anywhere policy**: Employees can work from home or the office on any given day; product teams are organized in regional hubs (Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, Toronto) with regular in-person collaboration.
- **Culture and values**: Collaborative environment where employees are "treated with respect" and supported to "captain their own ship" toward growth; values are explicitly prioritized: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, Speed.
- **Giving back**: 1% Veeva Giving program — each employee receives an amount equal to 1% of their base salary annually to donate to non-profits of their choice; giving is entirely employee-driven.
- **Equity for employees**: Equity program designed so the vast majority of employees participate and benefit financially in the company's growth.
- **No non-compete clauses**: Employees are free to work where they choose, and the company actively fights unfair non-compete practices in the industry.
- **Stability with growth**: "Measured and thoughtful" hiring that has historically avoided significant layoffs, with net headcount growth of 637 in fiscal 2026.
- **Meaningful work**: Directly supports life sciences companies in their mission to improve and extend life.

## Sources
1. [veeva.com](https://www.veeva.com/)
2. [careers.veeva.com](https://careers.veeva.com/)
3. [careers.veeva.com — Why Veeva](https://careers.veeva.com/why-veeva/)
4. [veeva.com — Corporate Citizenship](https://www.veeva.com/corporate-citizenship/)
5. [2026 Public Benefit Corporation Report (PDF)](https://www.veeva.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-PBC-Report.pdf)

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