Software Engineer- Full Stack

100 Eli Lilly and Company; South San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Pension plan

Vacation benefits

Healthcare benefits

Well-being programs

Job summary

Lilly is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer for the Software Product Engineering team in the San Francisco, California area. You will design, build, test, and deploy cloud-native applications across front-end and back-end systems, with AI-driven enhancements and scalable architectures.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver high-quality software that improves patient outcomes, operating within Agile processes and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or 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 languages (polyglot programming), including JavaScript/TypeScript or a JVM language (e.g., Kotlin).
• Professional experience delivering software solutions across the full development life cycle.
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and deploy components into provisioned cloud platform environments through automated CI/CD processes.
• Translate designs into APIs, user interfaces, libraries, and services across languages while following Lilly standards.
• Use AI coding tools to accelerate design, implementation, testing, and debugging.
• Build and integrate AI capabilities into products to improve patient and user outcomes.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality software.
• Partner with data specialists to implement database and data warehousing solutions.
• Maintain code quality via source control and code reviews.
• Complete projects with minimal supervision and direction.

Skills

Cloud-native design

TypeScript

Node.js

Java/JVM

React/Angular/Vue

AI coding tools

CI/CD

Agile

AWS/Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

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.

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.

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.

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.

Additional Information

Position based in SanFrancisco, 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. 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.

EEO and Disability Accommodations

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.

Employee Resource Groups

• 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)
• Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL)

Actual Compensation

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $118,500 - $173,800. Full‑time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).

Benefits and Compensation

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.