Senior 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. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

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!

At Elanco, our empowered product teams solve hard problems—customer problems and business problems—in ways that our customers love yet work for our business. Our product squads are cross‑functional and durable, generally comprised of a product manager, a product designer, and several engineers. The Senior Engineer may serve as tech lead in a product squad. The tech lead is an individual contributor role and a peer to the product manager and product designer, where influence is achieved through technical expertise, product and customer knowledge, and business acumen.

The Senior Engineer reports to the Engineering Director, Enterprise SaaS & Cloud Integrations, who is responsible for performance, coaching, and career development.

We staff our product teams with the skills needed to craft effective solutions. These solutions must be valuable (customers choose to buy or use), viable (the solution works within the business constraints), usable (the user can figure out how to use), and feasible (our engineers can implement with available resources). As an Engineer, you’ll play a key part in ensuring feasibility.

You’ll also actively participate in product discovery, bringing your technical expertise to shape solutions and identify opportunities.

This role emphasizes technical excellence and collaborative problem‑solving. You will be a key contributor to technical design and implementation, working on challenging engineering problems. You will work closely with your tech lead to deliver on your team’s commitments.

• Technical Design and Implementation:
  • Designing and implementing complex product features and improvements, contributing to technical architecture discussions.
  • Working on rapid prototypes during product discovery, exploring technical feasibility and identifying potential solutions.
  • Writing high‑quality, testable, and maintainable code, following engineering best practices.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Collaborating closely within the product team during product discovery to identify opportunities and constraints, and help discover effective solutions.
  • Clearly communicating technical concepts and trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
  • Actively participating in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and mentoring other engineers.
  • Actively participating in code reviews, ensuring code quality, consistency, and maintainability.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Proactively identifying and addressing areas of technical debt.
  • Staying up-to-date on new technologies and industry best practices.
  • Sharing your learnings and insights with the broader engineering community within Elanco.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Required Experience:
  
  5+ years of experience developing and integrating commercial software.
• Deep understanding of modern software development methodologies.
• Proven ability to solve hard technical problems with many constraints.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Required experience working with CRM, Sales, and Marketing SaaS solutions.
• Preferred experience working in regulated industry and working GxP systems.

• Location:
  
  Indianapolis, Indiana at Elanco's Global…