Senior Web Developer

Summary

Join Veeva Systems, a leading life sciences industry cloud company, as a Web Developer on the IT Commercial Systems team. You will be the primary backend developer for veeva.com and other marketing websites, working with PHP, WordPress, and React.js. This role requires expertise in WordPress engineering, including plugin and theme development, API integrations, and site architecture design. You will be responsible for developing custom features, ensuring site performance, and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing. Veeva offers a flexible work-from-anywhere environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• You should have advanced PHP expertise and prior professional experience using it
• Experience in WordPress engineering, including PHP, React.js, and Gutenberg block development, following best practices
• You are skilled at debugging performance and caching issues across various environments
• You have experience designing site architectures with a focus on scalability and maintainability best practices
• You are comfortable using a Unix command line
• Experience building localized websites
• Strong communication skills to communicate technical concepts with non-developers
• You value autonomy and have the self-management skills to operate independently in a fully remote role
• Experience designing and maintaining systems for site updates that have thorough testing and quality assurance
• You appreciate order and efficiency but have an action-oriented approach
• Proactive approach to learning, growth, and sharing
• You should be proficient with Git and version control, capable of performing typical operations such as branching, merging, submitting code for peer review, and reviewing peers' code
• Experience interacting with RESTful APIs and data formats (JSON, XML)
• 5+ years of experience developing WordPress websites

Responsibilities

• Develop custom site features to meet the needs of our stakeholders
• Create enterprise-level WordPress plugins and themes primarily using PHP and Gutenberg blocks with React.js
• Build integrations with internal and external systems via APIs
• Determine the technical direction and guide on decisions to write custom code or leverage community-contributed code
• Apply the highest level of security to the code you deliver
• Debug across a wide range of browsers and devices
• Implement WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript best practices across projects
• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing, where people are encouraged to share in a respectful manner
• Craft high-quality code with an emphasis on readability, efficiency, and maintainability
• Monitor the performance of the live website

Preferred Qualifications

• Modern JavaScript and Typescript (React and Node) is a plus
• Experience developing Gutenberg Blocks in a modern WordPress environment
• Front-end development experience
• SEO knowledge
• UX/UI knowledge
• Comfortable working with MySQL, importing and exporting data, and optimizing database queries
• Experience with various caching systems and content-delivery networks is a plus

Benefits

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