Software Product Engineering - Development Lead - Silicon Valley Hub
Company websitelilly.com (Eli Lilly and Company, opens in new tab)
Base salary $138,000 to $246,400
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (45 min ago) · observed since
About this job
At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.
Technology continues to transform every aspect of society, including healthcare. Lilly envisions digital capabilities as an extension of our medicines, not just a marketing tactic. We, as consumers, have come to expect digital experiences to augment and support our experiences with medicines – especially to help reduce the burden of coping and managing through chronic disease for us, our loved ones and health care providers. Hence, Lilly’s Software Product Engineering team is committed to exploring how the next generation therapeutic ecosystems, connected solutions, and data analytics can transform the customer (patients, health care providers and payers) experience, demonstrate value, and most importantly – improve patient outcomes.
The SPE Development Lead will be responsible for developing and leading technical solutions supporting one or more Digital Health platforms. You will need to engage multiple teams to define technical requirements, develop designs, and align technology that enables the platform architecture all while meeting medical device regulatory expectations. Additionally, the organization will look to you to be a leader across SPE projects influencing other tech leads in how we develop platform solutions following best practices and driving our platform innovation roadmap.
What You'll Be Doing:
Develop and drive adoption of platform development standards and architecture patterns across your team(s)
Enable technical delivery of SPE software components including understanding and addressing risk, privacy, cybersecurity and legal constraints on project delivery
Drive design of new feature requests that are highly scalable and resilient.
Align SPE technical solutions with Lilly supported technologies
Provide technical evaluation of proposed project ideas, software changes and future product releases.
Drive the development and execution of our platform innovation roadmap, including creating working proof of concept models in new technology spaces directly connected to future Software Product Engineering capabilities
Mentor more junior members of the development team
Build effective relationships with key technical resources and architects to influence technology solutions specifically related to Software Product Engineering systems.
Provide guidance to Lilly and non-Lilly software delivery teams in best practice Agile delivery of software components of Lilly’s platform
Obtain and use knowledge of medical device delivery models and quality system to ensure solutions align with regulatory expectations and meet regulatory timelines
Obtain and bring to bear knowledge of Lilly business processes and technology to ensure solution deliveries are consistent with the strategy and roadmap
Your Basic Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field
7+ years of experience delivering software solutions that span the development lifecycle, e.g., design, development, testing, deployment, and support
5+ years of technical leadership experience in delivery of software projects
What You Should Bring:
Ability to manage and keep control of multiple software development and integration efforts.
Demonstrable examples of leading software design and architecture
Demonstrated ability to propose new ideas and influence peers
Proven initiative to learn new technologies and seek opportunities utilize what you’ve learned
Practical knowledge of Agile software development concepts and associated implementations.
Experience with architected asynchronous systems, utilizing tools like Kafka or similar.
Experience with AWS, Azure, and other cloud service providers
Experience with identity management or authentication providers (preferably Okta)
Experience with GitHub
Experience with CI/CD capabilities and industry best practices
Experience utilizing Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) or similar toolsets
High level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest
Additional information:
Role is located in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid work model - relocation required
Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$138,000 - $246,400Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
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Source: Eli Lilly and Company on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($138,000) is above 24% of the 10,410 Software Engineering roles nationwide listed on this site; 14 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $160,000; the middle half runs from $140,000 to $191,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.
This listingSoftware Product Engineering - Development Lead - Silicon Valley Hub$138,000 to $246,400
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Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Software Product Engineering - Development Lead - Silicon Valley Hub (this listing) | $138,000 - $246,400 |
| Advisor - Analytical Development Gene Therapy | $141K - $231K |
| Senior Advisor, Separation Science — Analytical Development | $141K - $231K |
| Advisor Chemistry | $141K - $231K |
| Advisor – RNA Preclinical Pharmacology, Ocular | $141K - $231K |
| Advisor – RNA Preclinical Pharmacology | $141K - $231K |
| Advisor, LNP Process Development and Platform Innovation | $142,500 - $231,000 |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-08-18
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Location as the employer wrote it: US, San Francisco CA
$138,000 - $246,400
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