Software Engineer- Full Stack

100 Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 66,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Pension

Vacation benefits

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Flexible benefits

Employee clubs and activities

Job summary

Lilly, headquartered in Indianapolis, invites software engineers to join a mission-driven team creating cloud-native applications and AI-powered features for patients worldwide. You will design, build, test, and deploy components across CI/CD pipelines while adhering to security standards and regulatory expectations.

With hybrid work in San Francisco, you will collaborate across product, design, and data teams, integrate open source components, and apply modern JavaScript and JVM languages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with multiple languages (polyglot programming).

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and deploy components into provisioned cloud platform environments through automated CI/CD processes.
• Review and implement technical designs, translating them into APIs, user interfaces, libraries, and services while adhering to 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, to improve patient and user outcomes.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, stakeholders, and vendors to drive high-quality outcomes.

Skills

REST APIs

Object-oriented programming

Debugging

Agile development

TypeScript/JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

Artifactory

Job description

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.

WeAreLilly

At Lilly we strive to ensure our employees are part of a team that cares about them and our shared purpose of making life better for those around the world. How do we do this? We continue to look for ways to include, innovate, accelerate and deliver while maintaining integrity, excellence and respect for people. We hope that you seek to join us on our journey as we create medicine and deliver improved outcomes for patients across the globe!

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.

What You'll Be Doing:

• 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.

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.

Position based in San Francisco, California with a hybrid work model.

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.

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 - $158,400 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.