Software Engineer - Fixed Duration

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

25d • $87,000 - $127,600

About The Position

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. Organization Overview At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our 39,000+ employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. Lilly Small Molecule Discovery is an organization purpose-built to create molecules that make life better for people. We focus on using cutting-edge science and technology approaches that can treat people suffering from diseases with poor treatment options. Position Summary The ADMET Intelligence group is seeking an experienced full stack developer to support scientific workflow management applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline with 3+ years of relevant experience
• Experience building full stack Django applications in Life Sciences, Biotech, or a similar R&D environment.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL)
• Experince with Django ORM, migrations, and model design
• Experience with Django REST Framework for API development
• Experience building scalable production applications using Django, Python (FastAPI, Flask) for backend and modern frameworks ( React, TypeScript ) for frontend.
• Experience implementing robust CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with ADME assays or compound management systems
• Knowledge of cheminformatics or pharmaceutical research workflows
• Strong ability to optimize SQL queries and design efficient schemas for high-throughput data.
• Knowledge of AWS ecosystems (Lambda, S3, Step Functions, DynamoDB) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Work with laboratory scientists to develop new features and enhance existing functionality for workflow management, including assay request handling, plate definitions, and sample tracking and results analysis
• Maintain and extend integrations with internal / external APIs
• Design, implement and test database schema changes, write efficient queries for PostgreSQL
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and ensure code coverage
• Demonstrate best practice on code quality, documentation, CI/CD rigor, and architectural best practices, ensuring our research code is robust enough for enterprise production.
• Serve as a bridge between discovery teams, and IT/Cloud organizations, converting scientific intent into rigorous engineering specifications.

Benefits

• Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees