Advisor Software Engineer
Eli Lilly and Company16 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end system design for large-scale distributed, cloud-native platforms, including APIs, data models, deployment topology, and observability.
- Define architectural standards and patterns, lead architecture reviews and technical blueprints, and drive modernization of monolithic and COTS systems.
- Write production-quality full-stack code, build APIs and real-time communication layers, and develop high-throughput data pipelines.
- Architect and build agentic AI systems using LLM orchestration, tool-use patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, and model evaluation.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and establish AI-assisted development practices using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor.
- Apply testing, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and DevSecOps practices.
- Influence technical direction across multiple teams, represent the organization in architecture and technology forums, and coach engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 14 years of hands-on software development experience across frontend and backend systems, including at least four years in a senior or lead architecture role.
- Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems using cloud, event-driven, serverless, and microservices architectures.
- Deep expertise in at least one cloud platform, with AWS preferred, plus experience with infrastructure-as-code and containerization.
- Strong proficiency in one or more of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, or Rust, with the ability to work across the full stack.
- Experience with frontend frameworks, backend development, databases, API development, testing, and CI/CD.
- Hands-on experience building production-scale AI applications, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, prompt engineering, and AI evaluations.
- Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority, communicate through architecture documentation, challenge assumptions, and coach engineers.
- Preferred qualifications include regulated-industry experience, familiarity with GxP, HIPAA, or SOX, open-source contributions, technical publications, platform engineering, developer experience tooling, or enterprise multimodal AI experience.
Benefits
- Lilly describes a supportive, respectful environment with accommodations available for individuals with disabilities and equal employment opportunities.
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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.