Why engineering at Stryker?

At Stryker we are dedicated to improving lives, with a passion for researching and developing new medical device products. As an engineer at Stryker, you will be proud of the work that you will be doing, using cutting-edge technologies to make healthcare better. Here, you will work in a supportive culture with other incredibly talented and intelligent people, creating industry-leading medical technology products. You will also have growth opportunities as we have a culture that supports your personal and professional development.

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Who We Want

Managers who drive performance. People who implement process improvements and leverage the talent of their team to consistently increase performance and productivity.

Talent Developers. Growth-oriented managers who recruit and hire top-performing talent and prioritize the development of their team members.

Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.

What You Will Do

Stryker is looking for a software manager with a breadth of knowledge in system integrations, a background in software engineering, and a passion for bringing technologies together to solve customer needs. In this position, you will manage a talented and growing software development team along with the scalability, longevity, and durability of relevant product releases. You'll define your team's products by partnering with upstream and downstream portfolio teams, the end-to-end testing team, customer support, professional services, DevOps, and escalations engineering.

• You will provide people leadership and personal development to the Integration Development software team.

• You will promote and establish good engineering practices within an Agile Software Development process.

• You will analyze customer issues and challenges, working closely with cross-functional teams to provide effective solutions.

• You will proactively identify potential issues and implement preventive measures to enhance customer satisfaction.

• You will collaborate with other product teams to define flexible, maintainable, APIs across on-premise and cloud-hosted systems.

• You will work with the Regulatory and Quality teams to ensure products perform to Stryker quality standards and meet government requirements.

• You will establish schedules and monitor progress against intermediate and final development targets.

• You will manage delivery of products, documentation, and support to multiple internal and external customers.

Technical / Managerial Responsibilities:

• You will execute a robust talent offense by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive.

• You will proactively drive positive outcomes to technical, business, and personnel problems.

• You will make decisions under guidance for project level issues.

• You will leverage strong listening skills and written / verbal communication to influence and convey business, regulatory compliance, and/or technical ideas to customers, employees, peers, external partners, and senior leaders.

• You will support a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development.

• You will lead projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.

• You will support and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams, influencing one's own technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.

What You Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field required

• 8+ years of experience required.

• 2+ years of leadership experience required.

Preferred Qualifications (You do not need to have ALL of these)

• Demonstrated experience building teams and showing strong leadership, hiring and developing talent, vision to inspire and excite team, and management of performance.

• Experience or certification in SAFe and/or Scrum Agile.

• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices.

• Knowledge of common networking and messaging protocols including TCP, UDP, SOAP, REST.

• Familiarity with hospital-related clinical communication and collaboration a strong plus

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skill.

• Some travel, including international, will be needed.

About Stryker

Our benefits:

• 12 paid holidays annually

• Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program.

• Financial benefits include Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

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About Stryker

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com. (http:)

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Stryker is driven to work together with our customers to make healthcare better. Employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required, depending on customer requirements, to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

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.