Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer
Stryker
About the role
Work Flexibility: Remote
As a Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will go beyond building applications to design, lead, and guide the engineering direction of our internal web solutions for US Customer Solutions. You will set the standard for engineering excellence, mentor junior engineers, and own system architecture while remaining hands-on with critical builds and AI-powered feature development. You’ll partner closely with business stakeholders and data engineering to deliver scalable, reliable, and impactful solutions while balancing hands-on development, team leadership, architectural influence, and innovation.
What You Will Do:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Design and lead the architecture of modern, scalable full-stack applications.
Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to junior engineers.
Lead integration of AI-powered features into existing and new applications.
Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to align engineering solutions with business objectives.
Software Engineering – New Development
Lead design, development, testing, and deployment of greenfield full-stack applications.
Drive modernization efforts: migrate and redesign legacy apps into Flask/Next.js.
Partner with the data engineering team to modernize ETL pipelines.
Maintenance & Reliability
Support maintenance, enhancements, and upgrades of assigned applications
Act as a technical escalation point for production issues.
Oversee and improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of core apps.
What You Need:
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field.
4+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
Proven experience leading design and development of production-grade web applications (Flask, React, Next.js) with and without GenAI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.).
Strong skills in SQL design, Postgres, performance tuning, and Azure-based services (including AI-powered features).
Application Security – Intra and SD element.
Experience mentoring and developing engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Agentic development, AI Automation, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD.
Experience with Python, Databricks, and cloud-native architecture.
Experience designing and deploying AI-powered features into commercial applications.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills, especially in commercial or MedTech environments.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
Puerto Rico: $77,700 - $129,500 USD Annual
USN: $89,300 - $148,800 USD Annual
US5: $93,800 - $156,200 USD Annual
US10: $98,200 - $163,700 USD Annual
US15: $102,700 - $171,100 USD Annual
US20: $107,200 - $178,600 USD Annual
US30: $116,100 - $193,400 USD Annual
View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.
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.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and development of scalable full-stack applications.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and conduct code reviews.
- Integrate AI-powered features into applications.
- Modernize legacy applications and ETL pipelines.
- Support production applications and improve their performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Partner with stakeholders and data engineering to deliver business-aligned solutions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
- At least 4 years of full-stack software engineering experience.
- Experience leading production web application development using Flask, React, and Next.js.
- Strong SQL, PostgreSQL, performance tuning, and Azure skills.
- Experience with application security and mentoring engineers.
- Preferred experience with agentic development, AI automation, CI/CD, Python, Databricks, cloud-native architecture, and commercial or MedTech environments.
Skills mentioned
About Stryker
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com and careers.stryker.com. Facts: ● 2025 Sales: $25.1 billion ● Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies ● Employees: 56,000 worldwide ● $1.6 billion spent on research and development in 2025 ● 14,600 patents owned globally in 2025 ● Products sold in 61 countries ● Fortune 500 Company ● 10 consecutive years as one a World's Best Workplace Stryker’s social media community guidelines: https://www.stryker.com/content/m/legal/social-media-community-guidelines/en/index.html Notice Regarding Employee Conduct on Facebook/LinkedIn Meta/LinkedIn does not permit employers to verify or validate “employees” in the (META: “Works at” LinkedIn: “Experience”) section of users’ profiles. Please be aware that the views expressed by individuals on their personal accounts and do not necessarily represent the views of our company. If you encounter any issues with a person claiming to be our employee, we recommend using the “Report Profile” feature. If you’d like to report concerns to our Ethics Hotline, you may do so at: https://app.convercent.com/en-us/LandingPage/b6bb4e84-9fcb-ea11-a974-000d3ab9f296
H-1B sponsorship history
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