Senior Software Engineer

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Organization Overview: 

The Software Product Engineering organization (SPE) delivers innovative tech solutions to aid, accelerate, and support work done across Lilly. This role is targeted at a software engineer who enjoys working with a cross-functional team, thinking innovatively, and developing robust infrastructure and code in support of accelerating scientific business processes. This position will report to the Associate Director of Software Product Engineering, Research Technologies and will partner with individuals from across Tech@Lilly organizations to deliver solutions and enable tech supporting a wide range of software and business processes. 

What You'll Be Doing:

• Work as an experienced, senior software engineer on a team of full stack software developers to develop and maintain software platforms and products
• Assist in bridging skillsets and facilitate knowledge sharing across the development team, fostering a cross-functional environment where every team member can effectively contribute
• Troubleshooting complex distributed systems, proposing and delivering preventative solutions 
• Following and establishing processes and patterns to streamline operations of a complex system
• Proactively planning platform work, organizing, and communicating roadmap objectives to teams
• Perform code reviews and participate in pair programming sessions 
• Develop secure, quality code and associated tests
• Work in a modern Agile environment to deliver customer value with regular cadence

What You Should Bring:

• Strong understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Microsoft Azure
• Experience working with Kafka and Temporal.IO
• Experience with applying AI/ML techniques to solve problems, demonstrated understanding of emerging technologies
• Experience working with teams across organizational and geographic boundaries and multiple levels within the organization 
• Strong teamwork, self-management, problem-solving abilities 
• Ability to effectively lead technical development teams
• Familiarity with chemistry or biology lab processes
• Experience translating customer needs into technical requirements
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 
• Experience in multiple common tech languages 

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, software engineering, or similar field
• 10+ years development experience in Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar languages, web development languages, and database languages
• Extensive experience architecting, building, and maintaining platforms built on Kubernetes and AWS technologies
• Experience working with Git, specifically working in a team which adopts modern Git practices 
• Experience working in a software development team following modern software development practices (Testing, Code Reviews, Code Coherence, use of a multitude of frameworks/libraries) 
• Experience in translating business requirements to recommended solutions 

Organization Overview

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

Lilly’s Software Product Engineering (SPE) organization is focused on building software platforms to accelerate our ability to reach and support patients, digitally. This organization is powered by software engineering experts that solve challenging problems around patient engagement and drug discovery with code.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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