Manager – R&D, Mobile Solutions

Stryker Corporation; Bengaluru; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation in Bengaluru seeks an R&D Manager, Mobile Solutions to lead a mobile engineering team delivering high-quality applications and exceptional customer experiences. The role blends technical leadership, people management, and product innovation in a healthcare technology context.

You will drive engineering best practices, oversee mobile delivery, and foster continuous improvement while balancing strategic development with operational support. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an engineering leadership role.
• Experience leading mobile development teams through the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of iOS and Android development, architecture, and deployment practices.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, and quality engineering.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing mobile engineering team.
• Manage customer escalations, drive root cause analysis, and ensure timely resolution.
• Establish engineering standards, development processes, and technical roadmaps.
• Monitor and improve key metrics related to product quality, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and team performance.
• Mobile Solutions & Delivery Provide technical leadership for iOS, Android, and cross-platform applications.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with business needs.
• Partner with Product, Quality, Support, and R&D teams to deliver reliable customer-facing solutions.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, and DevOps best practices.
• Balance strategic product development with operational support responsibilities.
• AI & Innovation Champion AI-assisted and agentic software development practices to improve productivity, quality, and delivery speed.
• Promote responsible AI adoption through governance and engineering best practices.
• Travel Percentage: 10%.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Mobile development

Cloud APIs

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Flutter

React Native

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite We are seeking an R&D Manager, Mobile Solutions to lead a mobile engineering team delivering high-quality applications and exceptional customer experiences. This role combines technical leadership, people management, operational excellence, customer engagement, and product innovation. The successful candidate will drive engineering best practices, oversee mobile application delivery, resolve complex customer issues, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing mobile engineering team.
• Manage customer escalations, drive root cause analysis, and ensure timely resolution.
• Establish engineering standards, development processes, and technical roadmaps.
• Monitor and improve key metrics related to product quality, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and team performance.
• Mobile Solutions & Delivery Provide technical leadership for iOS, Android, and cross-platform applications.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with business needs.
• Partner with Product, Quality, Support, and R&D teams to deliver reliable customer-facing solutions.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, and DevOps best practices.
• Balance strategic product development with operational support responsibilities.
• AI & Innovation Champion AI-assisted and agentic software development practices to improve productivity, quality, and delivery speed.
• Promote responsible AI adoption through governance and engineering best practices.

Travel Percentage: 10%

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 14+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an engineering leadership role.
• Experience leading mobile development teams through the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of iOS and Android development, architecture, and deployment practices.
• Experience with cloud-connected applications, APIs, and modern software architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, and quality engineering.
• Strong communication, problem‑solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Flutter, React Native, Xamarin, or .NET MAUI.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience in healthcare, medical device, or other regulated environments.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement methodologies.

Technical Competencies

• iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective‑C) and Android (Kotlin, Java) development.
• Mobile architectures including MVVM, Clean Architecture, and Dependency Injection.
• REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and cloud integration.
• CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and DevOps practices.
• Automated testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end levels.
• Mobile security, privacy, authentication & secure coding practices.
• AI-assisted software development and engineering productivity tools.
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com

Work Flexibility

Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.

Field-based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field‑based.

Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.

Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.