Senior Manager - R&D

Stryker • San Diego, CA

5d • $171,500 - $285,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior