Senior Manager - R&D (SmartCare Platform)

About the role

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. The role combines strong technical expertise with proven people leadership to deliver high-quality software, drive engineering excellence and advance AI-enabled development practices in a regulated healthcare environment. It is a hybrid position based in San Diego.

Key responsibilities

• Build, mentor and lead a 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 on scalability, reliability, security and maintainability.
• Ensure reliable, secure, high-quality releases and drive application performance, availability, usability and security.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of engineering leadership and people management.
• Proven experience leading distributed teams delivering cloud, mobile and SaaS products at scale.

Required skills

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP), container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and event-driven architectures (Kafka).
• Mobile architecture, CI/CD, release management, app store deployment and mobile security best practices.
• Preferred: hands-on development in Java, Kotlin, Swift or similar; enterprise mobile apps for iOS and Android, React Native or Flutter; familiarity with AI technologies such as RAG and prompt engineering.

Salary range: $171,500 - $285,700 USD per year; travel percentage 10%.