Sr. Principal 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.

The Atom5 team, as part of SPE (Software Product Engineering) organisation at Lilly, focuses on delivering innovative, high-quality software solutions that drive business growth and enhance customer experiences. It brings together cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, and product managers to build scalable, secure, and user-centric products in the clinical trial space. The role within Atom5 involves collaborating closely with stakeholders to define requirements, design robust architectures, and implement features that align with the product vision. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies, contribute to strategic initiatives, and play a key part in shaping the future of the Atom5 product.

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Sr Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will:

• Leverage your expertise across frontend, backend, databases to optimize our systems and build complex features as part of the team, by writing clean code, taking pride in your work and value simplicity, testing and productivity as part of your daily routine, always putting user experience first
• Take ownership of end-to-end feature development, making technical decisions that ensure our platforms are scalable, performant, and maintainable across the entire stack
• Support and debug critical production issues, and implement sophisticated solutions while carefully considering business impact
• Provide leadership mentorship to our less experiences team members, helping establish best practices and guiding architectural decisions while fostering a collaborative learning environment
• Embrace new languages and frameworks, containers and cloud, and not be afraid to dig deep and learn new things all the time
• Have a key role in hiring, onboarding and growing the team’s capacity and capabilities, with strategic on AI tooling and development
• Collaborate with other teams, technical and business/product leadership to ensure best quality of the product that delights the users

What You Should Bring:

• Good understanding of the AI space and practices in modern software development
• Experience and enjoyment in mentoring and growing members of your team
• Experience in developing highly regulated space focused on compliance, privacy and security
• Experience in product-focused development, with customer centric requirements and goals

Basic Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field
• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering
• Demonstrated ability to program in multiple languages –  including at least one of Spring/Java, Typescript, ReactJS, React-Native
• Professional experience in delivering software solutions that span the development life cycle using best practices, i.e., design, development, testing, deployment and  maintenance
• Professional experience of devops practices and container linux/cloud environment
• Demonstrated ability in data modelling and querying using SQL relational databases

Additional Information:

• This position is permanent, with location in Corporate center in Indianapolis US.
• You will work closely with teams across the globe, specifically UK and India, so some travel is expected (a few times a year)

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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