Software Engineer, Oncology Applications
Eli Lilly and Company2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$138k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and sustain full-stack applications, data services, workflow tools, and automation for scientific and operational users.
- Partner with scientists, engineers, informatics teams, and business stakeholders to identify needs, clarify requirements, and define deliverables.
- Improve efficiency by simplifying processes, reducing manual work, and connecting fragmented data and systems.
- Build and maintain APIs, data models, and access layers across scientific, operational, enterprise, and vendor data sources.
- Integrate applications with laboratory systems, data pipelines, analysis environments, and enterprise platforms.
- Apply standards for data quality, provenance, versioning, security, and access control.
- Develop AI-enabled capabilities such as information retrieval, natural-language data access, extraction, annotation, and summarization.
- Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining code review, testing, security, and ownership standards.
- Evaluate technology options across custom development, configuration, integration, reuse, purchase, process change, and retirement.
- Contribute to version control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, containerization, observability, and dependency management practices.
- Deploy and operate applications on Lilly cloud infrastructure in partnership with Tech@Lilly and Information Security.
- Own application reliability, user support, documentation, maintenance, and lifecycle planning.
- Mentor junior engineers, co-ops, and scientist-developers as appropriate.
Requirements
- BS or MS in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline, with 4 or more years of professional software engineering experience; an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated experience will be considered.
- Strong programming experience with Python or another modern server-side language, with Python preferred.
- Experience developing web applications or APIs using modern server-side frameworks such as Django, Flask, or Ruby on Rails.
- Front-end development experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and a modern component framework.
- Experience with relational database design, SQL, APIs, and system integration.
- Experience with cloud deployment, preferably AWS, as well as containerization and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Git-based collaborative development, code review, automated testing, and production support.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools and familiarity with LLM APIs or related application patterns.
- Ability to work with scientific and operational stakeholders and explain technical options to non-engineers.
- Ability to work independently, manage concurrent projects, and adapt to changing priorities.
- Experience developing scientific, operational, or data-intensive business applications is preferred.
- Prior experience in pharma, biotech, healthcare, research, or another regulated environment is preferred.
- Experience with biological data, laboratory systems, scientific instruments, or research data pipelines is preferred.
- Experience with workflow automation, enterprise integration, reporting, or interactive data visualization is preferred.
- Experience developing AI-enabled or agentic applications over internal data sources is preferred.
- Familiarity with data governance, sensitive-data handling, or controlled-access systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for a company bonus depending in part on company and individual performance.
- Benefits include a 401(k), pension, vacation, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, flexible spending, life insurance, leave, and well-being benefits.
- The position is based in San Diego, California or South San Francisco, California, is primarily office-based with regular in-person collaboration, and requires less than 5% travel.
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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.