IT Android Software Engineer

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 35,000 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.

• As an Android developer, you will bring your technical experience to design and build Kotlin/Java applications for Android mobile platforms that exceed product goals.
• With an approach that embraces failure, and ability to work in ambiguity, you will use your object-oriented development principles in Kotlin/Java to reach creative project solutions to deliver on time.
• By leveraging your development experience, you will ensure the applications achieve the optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness.
• Using your problem-solving skills, you will strive to quickly identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs for optimal user experience.
• With an attention to detail and proactivity you will seek to maintain existing Android applications via debugging and continuous updates, ensuring code quality, organization, and automation.
• As a superb communicator with strong interpersonal skills, you will work and collaborate effectively on a team including with remote team members, to define, design and ship new features.
• With a high level of curiosity, you will conduct external research and innovation to evolve existing and create new solutions.

• Proficiency with Object Oriented Programming, multi-threading, data serialization and REST APIs.
• Familiarity with MVVM and other architectural patterns.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and application performance tuning.
• Experience with Dagger or other methods for dependency injection.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
• Understanding of Android's design principles and interface guidelines.
• Demonstrated ability to write, perform, or automate unit tests.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools and continuous integration (CI/CD).
• Proven track record of using Agile software development concepts and associated implementations as demonstrated in a fleshed-out portfolio of software development projects.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field OR
• High School Diploma/GED with 7+ years of experience in IT technical roles
• 5+ years of experience as an Android developer
• Kotlin and Java programming experience
• Professional experience in delivering software solutions that span the development life cycle, i.e., project initiation, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, support, and retirement
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

• Indianapolis Based Position with hybrid work model