R&D Manager, Mobile Solutions

About the role

Stryker is looking for an R&D Manager, Mobile Solutions in Bengaluru to lead a mobile engineering team that delivers high-quality applications and exceptional customer experiences. The role combines technical leadership, people management, operational excellence, customer engagement and product innovation, with hybrid or onsite work flexibility.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing mobile engineering team, manage customer escalations and drive root cause analysis.
• Establish engineering standards, development processes and technical roadmaps, and monitor product quality, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency and team performance.
• Provide technical leadership for iOS, Android and cross-platform applications, ensuring they are scalable, secure and maintainable.
• Partner with Product, Quality, Support and R&D teams, and drive CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews and DevOps best practices.
• Balance strategic product development with operational support, and champion AI-assisted and agentic software development with responsible AI governance.

Required profile

• 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 communication, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

Required skills

• iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C) and Android (Kotlin, Java) development, with knowledge of MVVM, Clean Architecture and Dependency Injection.
• REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices and cloud integration.
• CI/CD pipelines, release automation, DevOps and automated testing (unit, integration, UI, end-to-end).
• Preferred: Flutter, React Native, Xamarin or .NET MAUI; Azure, AWS or GCP; healthcare, medical device or regulated environments; Lean, Six Sigma or continuous improvement.