Lead Platform Engineer

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role: Lead Software Engineer 

At Elanco, our engineer roles bring adaptive set of skills covering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Commercial-of-the-Shelf (CotS) and/or Custom Developed applications. The role is part of our software engineering team established to deliver Engineering expertise to business facing products and services. As an Engineer you will be deployed into a multi-disciplined product team applying your software engineering talent to Elanco’s biggest opportunities.

Your 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 opinionated view that gets developers across the enterprise started faster.

• You will define the testing strategy for projects, including various types of testing. Implements 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 modern product approaches such as rapid prototyping and embedding a ‘show them, don’t tell them’Culture.

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications:

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

• 10 + years of experience working with modern application architecture methodologies

  5 + years of experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud.

  8 + years of experience designing and delivering digital solutions following a product-mindset and a variety of delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, CCPM, etc.).

  5 + years of experience working within a “DevSecOps” culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc.

  Familiarity or experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform).

• Operational experience having supported and iterated on custom built applications

• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, and /or Node.js.

• Passion for simplicity and great Developer Experience.

• Experience scaling an “API-Ecosystem”, designing, and implementing “API-First” integration patterns.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):

• Experience defining and implementing large-scale, transformative digital solutions.

• Experience working in complex, diverse landscapes (business, technology, regulatory, partners, providers, geographies, etc.).

• Experience with software deployment capabilities including Kubernetes.

• Experience in a Platform Engineering team beneficial.

Additional Information:

• Travel: 0%

• Location: India, Bangalore

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrecognized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!

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