Senior Python Developer

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.

Position: Sr. Python Developer – Software Product Engineering 

Organization Overview:

The Software Product Engineering organization (SPE) delivers innovative tech solutions to aid, accelerate, and support work done across Lilly. This role is targeted for a software engineer who enjoys working with a cross-functional team, developing robust code in support of accelerating scientific processes, and thinking innovatively. She/He will partner with individuals across Lilly SPE and other BU’s to deliver solutions and enable tech supporting a wide range of software and scientific processes. Help design and create technical front-end and back-end solutions that meet the needs of our scientific business areas.

Key Responsibilities & Objectives:

• Work as a software engineer on a team of full stack software developers to develop and maintain software platforms
• Assist in bridging skillsets and facilitate knowledge sharing across the development team, fostering a cross-functional environment where every team member can effectively contribute
• Using problem-solving skills, you will strive to quickly identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs for optimal user experience.
• Maintain existing applications via debugging and continuous updates, ensuring code quality, organization, and automation
• Perform code reviews and participate in pair programming sessions
• Work in a modern Agile environment to deliver customer value with regular cadence

Basic Requirements & Experience Expectations:

• 8+ years of experience in industry performing software development
• 4-year (bachelors) degree in computer science, software engineering, or similar field
• Proficiency with Object Oriented Programming, multi-threading, data serialization and REST API to connect applications to back-end services
• Expertise in Docker and advanced containerization techniques
• Experience working with Microservices/Service Oriented Architecture Frameworks
• Design and implement backend services using Python and Flask, FastAPI & Django framework
• Proven cloud development experience on AWS
• Practical experience with AWS, particularly services like EC2, RDS, IAM, DynamoDB and Lambda
• Good understanding on PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch
• Excellent understanding of data visualizations and data integration services in AWS from backend technologies 
• Excellent understanding on authentication and authorization
• Understanding of IT life cycle methodology & processes
• Experience in understanding and Leading Enterprise Platform /Solutions
• Good Understanding on Middleware technologies
• Experience in TDD and BDD unit testing and API contract testing
• Ability to quickly adopt changing circumstances and priorities.
• Self motivated to prioritise  and complete multiple tasks without direct supervision.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Strong understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience working on applications GenAI and LLM based use cases
• Experience working with teams across organizational and geographic boundaries and multiple levels within the organization
• Strong teamwork, self-management, problem-solving abilities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience in multiple common tech languages
• Nice to have React ,Angular,Type Script or Java Script framework.

Location: Bangalore, India

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