Senior Manager - R&D

Stryker; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the SmartCare platform, guiding cloud services, web applications, and mobile solutions. This role blends strong technical leadership with people management to drive engineering excellence within a regulated healthcare environment.

You will mentor a high-performing team, shape roadmaps across cloud, web, and mobile, and ensure secure, scalable product releases while advancing AI-enabled development practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering leadership.
• Proven experience leading distributed teams delivering cloud, mobile, and SaaS products at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and Kafka.
• Understanding of mobile architecture, CI/CD, release management, app store deployment, and mobile security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing software engineering team responsible for SmartCare products and legacy clinical workflow solutions.
• Drive execution across the software development lifecycle, from architecture and development through release and operational support.
• Define team strategy, priorities, staffing plans, and delivery objectives aligned with business goals.
• Partner with Product Management, UX, Support, Customer Excellence, Escalations and DevOps to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Shape product and technology roadmaps across cloud, web, and mobile platforms.
• Lead technical discussions and architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Ensure reliable, secure, and high-quality product releases across cloud and mobile platforms.
• Drive application performance, availability, usability, and security.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Mobile architecture

CI/CD

App store deployment

Mobile security

Java

Kotlin

Swift

React Native

Flutter

AI technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Stryker is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development and support of the SmartCare platform, including cloud services, web applications, and mobile solutions. This leader will combine strong technical expertise with proven people leadership to deliver high-quality software, drive engineering excellence, and advance adoption of AI-enabled development practices within a regulated healthcare environment.

What You Will Do:

Leadership & Delivery

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing software engineering team responsible for SmartCare products and legacy clinical workflow solutions.
• Drive execution across the software development lifecycle, from architecture and development through release and operational support.
• Define team strategy, priorities, staffing plans, and delivery objectives aligned with business goals.

Product & Technical Leadership

• Partner with Product Management, UX, Support, Customer Excellence, Escalations and DevOps to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Shape product and technology roadmaps across cloud, web, and mobile platforms.
• Lead technical discussions and architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.

Quality & Customer Success

• Ensure reliable, secure, and high-quality product releases across cloud and mobile platforms.
• Drive application performance, availability, usability, and security.

What You Will Need:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years of engineering leadership and people management experience.
• Proven experience leading distributed teams delivering cloud, mobile, and SaaS products at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-driven architectures (Kafka)
• Understanding of mobile architecture, CI/CD, release management, app store deployment, and mobile security best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on development experience with Java, Kotlin, Swift, or similar modern programming languages.
• Experience delivering enterprise mobile applications for iOS and Android; knowledge of React Native or Flutter.
• Familiarity with emerging AI technologies, including RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and secure deployment of AI-enabled applications.
• US10: $171,500 - $285,700 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.