Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer

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.

• 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.

Looking for a place that values your unique talents? Discover Stryker’s award-winning culture. We are proud to offer you 12 paid holidays annually. For an overview of our benefits and time off, please follow this link to learn more: US Stryker employee benefits, * 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