Staff Software Engineer, TuneLab
Eli Lilly and Company1 day ago
Base Salary
$180k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own product surfaces end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and integrations.
- Architect and build application workflows that wrap Lilly’s AI models into a cohesive SaaS product for biotech customers.
- Make technology and architecture decisions while remaining hands-on in the code.
- Establish engineering standards for code review, testing, releases, and on-call operations.
- Mentor engineers, participate in hiring, and partner with the Engineering Manager on team development.
- Pressure-test product roadmaps with product and design partners and help simplify solutions.
- Navigate enterprise infrastructure, security, and compliance requirements and leverage Lilly IT and platform capabilities.
- Represent engineering in discussions with external biotech partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience and a track record of shipping customer-used SaaS products.
- Experience operating as a senior or staff individual contributor on a small team.
- Strong full-stack fundamentals, including ownership from database schema through user interface.
- Experience with API design, integrations, cloud environments, and modern deployment practices.
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration decisions and hands-on experience building LLM-powered features, including reliability, evaluations, and context management.
- Experience building software for external customers and simplifying complex backend capabilities into usable products.
- Experience working on small teams or in startup-like environments with broad ownership.
- Ability to lead through technical judgment, communicate across technical and non-technical audiences, and set direction without a manager title.
- Preferred experience includes life sciences, pharma or health tech, B2B SaaS, startups, early-stage internal ventures, or technical co-founder/early-engineer work.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for a company bonus based partly on company and individual performance.
- Benefits may include a 401(k), pension, vacation, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, flexible spending, life insurance, leave, well-being, fitness, employee assistance, and employee club benefits.
- The role is full-time and requires authorization to work in the United States; Lilly does not sponsor work authorization or visas for this role.
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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.