Lead Software Engineer

Role Summary

Lead Software Engineer role within Elanco's software engineering team delivering engineering expertise to business-facing products and services. You will be deployed into a multi-disciplinary product team applying your software engineering talent to Elanco’s biggest opportunities. Roles cover Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS), and/or Custom Developed applications.

Responsibilities

• Join a diverse engineering organization and contribute to growing our engineering capabilities across Software and Platform Engineering.
• Develop full-stack solutions, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth.
• Implement and support modern digital products that are technologically sound, avoid technical debt, guarantee compliance, and enable the required business outcome.
• You will contribute and shape our Horizon software developer patterns leveraging infrastructure as code and providing an opinionated view that gets developers across the enterprise started faster.
• You will define the testing strategy for projects, including various types of testing. Implement automated testing frameworks.
• You will assess the risks early in the product discovery process, considering factors like time constraints, available skills and technologies, and potential technical debt. Ensuring the team builds only what is truly valuable.
• Use modern product approaches to influence and shape the business through partnership with product management and digital product delivery, utilizing rapid prototyping and embedding a “show them, don’t tell them” culture.

Qualifications

• Required: 10+ years of experience with modern application architecture methodologies.
• Required: 5+ years of experience with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud.
• Required: 8+ years of experience designing and delivering digital solutions following a product-minded approach and a variety of delivery methodologies (e.g., Agile, CCPM).
• Required: 5+ years of experience working within a DevSecOps culture, including CI/CD, TDD, etc.
• Required: Familiarity or experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform).
• Required: Experience with software deployment capabilities including Kubernetes.
• Preferred: Experience in a Platform Engineering team is beneficial.
• Required: Operational experience having supported and iterated on custom-built applications.
• Required: Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.
• Required: Passion for simplicity and a great Developer Experience.
• Required: Experience scaling an API-Ecosystem, designing and implementing API-First integration patterns.
• Preferred: Experience defining and implementing large-scale, transformative digital solutions.
• Preferred: Experience working in complex, diverse landscapes (business, technology, regulatory, partners, providers, geographies, etc.).

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science.

Skills

• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.
• Experience with API-first design and scaling API ecosystems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and Kubernetes.
• Strong testing, automation, and developer experience focus.

Additional Requirements

• Travel: 0%
• Location: India, Bangalore