Software Engineer - I

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SEP Engineer Job Description

Role Title: Software Engineer - I

Location: India

Team: Software Engineering and Platforms

Supervisor: Associate Director - Software Engineering

Career Progression: Engineering, Architecture, Analyst

Position Description:

Historically, the role of IT has been to provide a reliable ecosystem to run the business, drive efficiencies and reduce costs. These areas remain integral, however, driven by the quickening pace of innovation, IT must evolve, proactively partnering with the business to enable new digital business models that power new types of customer engagement.

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.

To be successful in an engineering role in Elanco requires a highly motivated individual, with an innovative mindset and a willingness to drive tangible outcomes. The individual must be able to articulate complex technical topics and collaborate with the internal engineering organisation to improve engineering across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

Engineering

• Join a diverse engineering organisation 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.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering team to provide input to shaping their products allowing software engineers to deliver business value faster than ever before.
• Look for continuous improvement opportunities in our core ecosystem identifying new ways to enhance application team and developer experience.
• Embed security, privacy, data protection and quality assurance across all digital solutions.
• Build and run responsibility across the products you work on balancing the quality and stability of the product with new feature enhancements.
• Partner with the Product Owner to establish a working backlog including assisting in sizing of items and helping design engineering approaches to meet application of feature requirements.
• Opportunity to participate in rotations to other functions or teams within Engineering to broaden your skillsets.

Product Team

• You will join a product team within the Elanco research and development function, highly dynamic area full of exciting opportunities.
• You will fulfil a software engineering role helping to both build and run a new Pharmacovigilance (PV) product or support other custom build application needs with a focus on analysis and improved use of data.
• You will be working with both front-end technologies and back-end technologies and integration with 3rd party SaaS solutions.
• Working with existing event reporting solutions and custom engineered solutions to ensure there is a strong user experience for users of the tools and continued iteration to improve speed, accuracy, and compliance.
• Shape engineering expectations against the product partnering with the Principal Engineer in software engineering to ensure the product adopts Elanco standards.
• Upskill and coach engineers on the product to build a highly competent engineering unit.
• Partner with Platform Engineering to highlight reusable components produced for this product that could be made available to the enterprise.

Innovation

• Look for opportunities to partner internally and externally using hackathon and other formats to engage, learn and achieve great outcomes for Elanco IT.
• Use modern product approaches to influence and shape the business through partnership with product management and digital product delivery utilising modern product approaches such as rapid prototyping and embedding a show them, don t tell them culture.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience in some of the following areas essential.
  • 5 + years of experience working with modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.).
  • 5 + years of experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud.
  • 5 + 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.
  • Experience with software deployment capabilities including Kubernetes.
• Proven track record of hands-on software engineering (e.g. Programming, Scripting, Markup Languages), with a preference towards web technologies (e.g. TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, Next.js/React etc.).
• Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.
• Experience scaling an API-Ecosystem , designing, and implementing API-First integration patterns.
• Testing and Quality Assurance Expertise:
  • 5+ years of experience with automated testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Mocha, Cypress, or similar.
  • Proven track record of implementing and scaling end-to-end testing strategies, including unit, integration, performance, and regression testing.
• Code Quality and Best Practices:
  • Demonstrated ability to ensure code quality through adherence to clean coding practices, peer code reviews, and static analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube).
  • Experience enforcing software quality gates in CI/CD pipelines to ensure delivery readiness.
• Reliability and Performance:
  • Experience optimizing software for performance, scalability, and maintainability while adhering to SLAs and SLOs.
  • Skilled in root cause analysis and debugging to identify and fix production issues effectively.
• DevSecOps and Quality in Deployment:
  • Hands-on experience in integrating automated security and quality checks (e.g., OWASP standards) into the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Familiarity with quality-focused DevOps practices like canary deployments, blue-green testing, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• API and System Testing:
  • Proficient in testing and scaling API ecosystems with a focus on API-first design principles, including authentication and authorization patterns.
  • Experience with performance testing tools for APIs and systems (e.g., Postman, JMeter, or k6).
• Quality Culture and Collaboration:
  • Proven experience in championing a quality-first mindset across multidisciplinary teams by establishing robust QA processes and advocating for test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD).
  • Strong organizational and communication skills to document and disseminate quality-focused practices to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with authentication and authorisation protocols/patterns.
• Experience defining and implementing large-scale, transformative digital solutions.
• Demonstrated influence and communication skills across all levels of IT and third parties.
• Experience working in complex, diverse landscapes (business, technology, regulatory, partners, providers, geographies, etc.).
• Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction.

Other Information: Occasional travel may be required.

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status