Frontend Software Architect - Vault Platform

Title: Frontend Software Architect - Vault Platform

Location:

Portland

State: OR

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

Veeva is seeking a Frontend Architect to shape the user interface of our global platform for Life Sciences. This visible, high-leverage role requires an engineer who pairs a strong intuition for interface ergonomics with the ability to operate at a deep level of technical abstraction. You will deliver the frontend infrastructure, design system, and component library that thousands of developers use to build applications that transform medical breakthroughs into life-changing patient care.

What You'll Do

• • Technical Leadership: Mentor and technically lead a team of talented software engineers, shaping their professional development. Define and promote frontend standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines to ensure cohesive execution across the engineering organization
  • Composable UI Architecture: Architect reusable and coherent component frameworks. You will develop a foundational design system and component library that scales across multiple applications and use cases
  • Interface Ergonomics: Establish comprehensive guidelines for interaction patterns, guiding teams on how to effectively utilize standard UI controls to construct intuitive, seamless, and productive human-computer interfaces
  • Developer Experience & Tooling: Own the frontend development process and build systems. In coordination with DevOps, you will evolve the infrastructure that empowers internal developers to build, test, and ship UI components reliably and rapidly
  • Testing Strategy & Quality: Evolve our frontend testing strategy by advancing robust unit, integration, and end-to-end (E2E) methodologies that deliver consistency and high confidence in UI deployments
  • AI-Ready Documentation: Set the standard for meticulous, highly structured documentation detailing component usage, architectural patterns, and standards—specifically optimized to be consumed by both human engineers and autonomous AI development agents
  • Hands-on Engineering: Code agentically and manually, maintaining deep technical ownership as both a designer and programmer

Requirements

• • Engineering Maturity: A career-spanning track record (typically 10+ years) of building complex systems. You are deeply technical and hands-on, bringing insight gained from observing the long-term consequences of architectural decisions
  • Core Technologies: Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React. You understand the idiosyncrasies of JavaScript and the inner workings of React
  • Browser Internals & Rendering: Nuanced understanding of the browser's event loop, rendering, and layout pipeline. You are highly skilled in DOM manipulation, minimizing layout thrashing, optimizing recalculations and reflow, and ensuring fluid, high-frame-rate interactions
  • State Management & Persistence: Extensive experience orchestrating complex client-side state. You are well-versed in patterns like Redux, React Context, state machines, or signal-based reactivity, and know when to apply global vs. local state in a composable architecture. You also know how to effectively manage client-side storage mechanisms (Cookies, Local Storage, IndexedDB)
  • Data Fetching & API Architecture: Comprehensive experience bridging the frontend-backend divide. You are adept at managing network waterfalls, data hydration, and modern data-fetching paradigms (REST, GraphQL) to ensure fast, scalable client-server communication
  • Styling Architecture: Advanced mastery of CSS fundamentals and the cascading model. You have proven experience managing large-scale styling architecture and are highly literate in multiple approaches, including CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS, utility-first frameworks, and global theming systems
  • Internationalization & Accessibility: Extensive experience architecting applications with integral support for internationalization (i18n), localization, and globalization. Proficiency with web accessibility (a11y), including WCAG standards, ARIA roles, and semantic HTML
  • Asset & Loading Optimization: Mastery of frontend performance tuning. You have extensive experience with HTTP headers, cache busting strategies, asset chunking, and fine-tuning CSS and JavaScript loading priorities. You understand when to utilize WebSockets and Service Workers
  • Build Systems & Tooling: Expertise in configuring and optimizing modern frontend build tools and bundlers (Webpack, Vite, Rollup). You have strong experience with modern test frameworks (Jest, RTL, Playwright) and establishing test automation, static analysis, and linting practices
  • Frontend Security: Thorough understanding of web security fundamentals. You are experienced in preventing common frontend vulnerabilities (XSS, CSRF) by design, configuring Content Security Policies (CSP), and safely managing third-party scripts
  • Observability & Telemetry: Experience implementing frontend observability. You know how to track Core Web Vitals and structure error logging to diagnose complex client-side issues in production
  • Agentic Development: Experience in AI-assisted development (Claude Code) to drive engineering velocity while maintaining professional code quality. Preferably, you have introduced agentic development workflows and driven AI adoption across an organization. Experience delivering autonomous agents as product features is highly desirable
  • Mentorship Impact: A proven track record of elevating engineers and teams. You have mentored individuals through design challenges and established quality and coding standards that improved the collective output of your organization
  • Work Authorization & Location: Unrestricted right to work in the United States is required. Veeva will not provide visa sponsorship at this time. This is an optionally remote position, but you must reside and work in the Pacific or Mountain time zones for effective collaboration

Perks & Benefits

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

Compensation

• • Base pay: $180,000 - $300,000
  • 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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