At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.
Full Stack Software Engineer – Software Product Engineering
Come develop great software solutions to solve exciting problems that help patients!
The Software Product Engineering team is looking for a full stack engineer. Are you determined to own and complete complicated and technically ambitious work? Are you passionate about technology, with extensive full stack development experience across both front-end and back-end systems? Our team is actively adopting AI across the development lifecycle to help us build better software, faster, and we're looking for engineers who are excited to be part of that evolution while bringing strong engineering fundamentals. If so, please apply.
What You'll Be Doing:
As part of a collaborative team of versatile engineers, you will build reusable, composable software components, taking them from design and requirement specifications through implementation, testing, and integration into Software Product Engineering's next-generation platform ecosystem. By continuously improving the design, building for maintainability, and ensuring the product meets both business and patient needs, your work will transform patient experiences and improve treatment outcomes.
How You'll Succeed :
· Develop, test, and deploy components into provisioned cloud platform environments through automated Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) processes.
· Review and implement technical designs, translating them into APIs, user interfaces, libraries, and services across a range of programming languages while adhering to Lilly's architecture, design, implementation, and security standards.
· Use AI coding tools to accelerate design exploration, implementation, testing, and debugging, while owning the correctness, security, and maintainability of everything you ship.
· Build and integrate AI capabilities into products, such as LLM-powered features and agent tools, where they improve patient and user outcomes.
· Build working knowledge of medical device delivery models and quality systems, including GxP expectations, to ensure solutions align with regulatory requirements and timelines.
· Integrate open source and licensed components into larger solutions, making practical reuse decisions and ensuring dependencies are sourced through approved enterprise channels (e.g., Artifactory) and meet security and licensing requirements.
· Investigate and propose solutions to development and design problems through open collaboration and healthy debate, including scope estimation and forecasting.
· Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, engineers, stakeholders, and vendors within the team and across Lilly.
· Establish strong relationships with technical leaders and architects to influence technology direction for Software Product Engineering platforms and products.
· Practice effective source control, code review, and collaborative programming to drive high-quality outcomes.
· Partner with data professionals to implement database and data warehousing solutions.
· Complete projects with minimal supervision and direction.
What You Should Bring :
· Experience designing and building cloud-native applications using containerized services and microservices architectures on AWS or Azure.
· Exposure to large-scale architectural patterns, ideally with hands-on experience implementing event-driven systems using Apache Kafka (or similar) for scalable, resilient processing.
· Strong object-oriented programming skills, excellent debugging skills, and expertise with data serialization, REST APIs, and version control.
· Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, or a JVM language (e.g., Kotlin) for building front-end and back-end services, along with HTML, CSS, and SASS; Python experience is a plus.
· Experience building applications with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, or Nuxt) and modern build tooling (e.g., Vite, Webpack).
· Familiarity with build automation and containerization technologies such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
· Experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) in your development workflow; familiarity with LLM application patterns such as RAG, tool use, or MCP is a plus.
· A proven track record of Agile software development, demonstrated through a portfolio of software development projects.
Your Basic Qualifications :
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical engineering discipline, including Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Science, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Cloud Computing, Data Science
· 2+ years of experience in Software Engineering, including full stack development across front-end and back-end systems
· Experience with multiple languages (polyglot programming), including JavaScript/TypeScript or a JVM language (e.g., Kotlin)
· Professional experience delivering software solutions across the full development life cycle, including project initiation, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, support, and retirement
· Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.
About the organization
Tech @ Lilly builds and maintains capabilities using groundbreaking technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Tech @ Lilly is that we create new possibilities 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 core foundational 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 (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$66,000 - $158,400Full-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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical engineering discipline
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering, including full-stack development across front-end and back-end systems
- Experience with multiple programming languages, including JavaScript/TypeScript or a JVM language such as Kotlin
- Professional experience delivering software across the full development lifecycle, including initiation, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, support, and retirement
- Experience designing and building cloud-native applications using containerized services and microservices architectures on AWS or Azure
- Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, or a JVM language for front-end and back-end services
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, or Nuxt
- Experience with HTML, CSS, and SASS
- Experience with object-oriented programming, debugging, data serialization, REST APIs, and version control
- Experience with build automation and containerization technologies such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Qualified applicants must be authorized to work full-time in the United States without visa or work authorization sponsorship
- Exposure to large-scale architectural patterns and event-driven systems using Apache Kafka or similar technology
- Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor
- Familiarity with LLM application patterns such as RAG, tool use, or MCP
- Python experience
- Proven track record of Agile software development demonstrated through a software development portfolio
Eli Lilly and Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Eli Lilly and Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Eli Lilly and Company.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests long-term savings are bolstered by a defined-benefit pension alongside a company 401(k) match and retiree health options. These elements make total compensation feel strong beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests paid time off is expansive, with substantial vacation, company shutdown days, and milestone time. This breadth of leave is viewed as a meaningful part of overall rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Feedback suggests family-building and caregiving support are robust, including paid parental leave, adoption or surrogacy assistance, and backup care. These programs enhance the perceived value of benefits across life stages.
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What We Do
Eli Lilly and Company engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of products in pharmaceutical products business segment. For more than a century, we have stayed true to a core set of values – excellence, integrity, and respect for people – that guide us in all we do: discovering medicines that meet real needs, improving the understanding and management of disease, and giving back to communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.



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