Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead
Eli Lilly and Company1 day ago
Indianapolis, IN, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$129k - $189k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of AI agents, agent systems, and AI products in alignment with business and product objectives.
- Design, code, and deliver critical software components, primarily in Python.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs and implementation plans.
- Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making across engineering and partner teams.
- Review code, establish testing and validation strategies, and ensure engineering, security, and architectural standards are followed.
- Monitor solution quality, performance, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and technical health.
- Mentor developers, assign and guide technical work, and promote engineering excellence.
- Coordinate technical work across developers, architects, security partners, and platform teams.
- Communicate technical risks, dependencies, and solution approaches to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Serve as the primary technical escalation point and align technology decisions with business strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field such as Engineering or Information Technology.
- 8+ years of software development or software engineering experience.
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams or large technical initiatives.
- Experience with cloud platforms, software architecture, APIs, data integration, and modern development practices.
- Experience influencing technical decisions across cross-functional teams.
- Preferred: master’s or doctoral degree and experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
- Preferred: familiarity with GxP and computer systems validation.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with AI and machine learning solutions, including LLM-based and agentic applications.
- Preferred: experience with DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and deployment pipelines.
- Preferred: strong communication, mentoring, coaching, ambiguity-management, and decision-making skills.
- Preferred: relevant cloud architecture certifications such as AWS.
Benefits
- Full-time employees may be eligible for a company bonus based partly on company and individual performance.
- Benefits may include a company-sponsored 401(k), pension, vacation, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, flexible spending, life insurance, leave, and well-being benefits.
- Employee resource groups, fitness benefits, employee assistance, and employee clubs and activities are available.
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About Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company researches, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines and biologics for patients, sold through healthcare providers, pharmacies, and payers. Core therapeutic areas include diabetes, oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and obesity. Founded in 1876 and headquartered in Indianapolis, it is a public company (NYSE: LLY) with global operations and is building a new advanced manufacturing site for gene therapy and other modalities in Lebanon, Indiana.