Advisor Software Engineer

About the role

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

What you'll do

• System Design & Architecture
• Own end-to-end system design of large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms – from API contracts and data models to deployment topology and observability
• Define and enforce architectural standards and patterns (microservices, event-driven, serverless, CQRS) and lead architecture reviews, ADRs, and technical blueprints
• Design for resilience, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency on cloud platforms (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable)
• Drive decomposition of monolithic and COTS systems into modern, maintainable, in-house services and platform capabilities

What you need

• 14–25 yrs of experience
• Data structures
• System design
• Python
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Java
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• GCP
• Azure