Senior Manager - R&D

Stryker; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Remote-friendly policy

Travel flexibility

Job summary

Stryker in San Diego seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead SmartCare platform development, including cloud services, web apps, and mobile solutions. This role blends technical depth with people leadership to deliver high-quality software and advance engineering excellence in a regulated healthcare environment.

You will mentor a distributed team, shape roadmaps across cloud, mobile, and SaaS, ensure secure, scalable releases, and partner with Product, UX, Support, and DevOps to drive

Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering experience.
• 5+ years engineering leadership & people management.
• Experience leading cloud, mobile, and SaaS at scale.
• Knowledge of AWS/Azure/GCP, containers, CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor software team for SmartCare products and legacy solutions.
• Define team strategy, staffing, and delivery objectives.
• Partner with Product, UX, Support, and DevOps to deliver solutions.
• Ensure reliable, secure, high-quality releases across cloud/mobile.

Skills

Leadership experience

Software engineering

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Work Flexibility: Hybrid 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 Travel Percentage: 10%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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.

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.