Advisor - Software Engineer - SPE

Overview

Advisor Software Engineer (R5) in Lilly’s Software Product Engineering (SPE) team, serving as a recognized technical authority and hands-on technical leader for end-to-end, cloud-native and AI-first system development.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end system design for large-scale distributed, cloud-native platforms.
• Define and enforce architectural standards and patterns and lead architecture reviews/ADRs.
• Write production-quality full-stack code and build/optimize APIs, real-time layers, and data pipelines.
• Architect and build agentic AI systems, including LLM orchestration, tool-use, and RAG pipelines.
• Apply DevSecOps principles end-to-end and champion code quality through testing and CI/CD.
• Provide cross-functional technical influence and coach engineers across teams.

What you'll need

• 14+ years of hands-on software development across frontend and backend.
• At least 4 years in a senior/lead architecture role.
• Deep expertise in at least one cloud platform (AWS preferred) plus infrastructure-as-code and containerisation.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals across data structures, algorithms, and software architecture.
• Hands-on production experience building AI-powered applications (agentic workflows, RAG, LLM integrations, prompt engineering).
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field.

Details

• Location: India, Hyderabad.
• Cloud platform: AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable.