Lead Full Stack Engineer, EDT Innovation Lab

Work Flexibility: Onsite Lead Full Stack Engineer, EDT Innovation Lab The ED&T Innovation Lab is Stryker’s one front door for internal, non-commercial problems across our five business units and central functions. We run focused prototype sprints on real problems with real users and approved data, show progress in weekly demos and decide on evidence: stop, refine or scale. A fast, well-reasoned no is a successful outcome. What scales moves to a named delivery owner with a full handoff package; the Lab never keeps a product long term, and never bypasses Enterprise Architecture, security, compliance or QMS governance. Our promise: “Bring us the problem. We’ll test the possibility. Together we scale what works.”  We are hiring Lead Full Stack Engineer in India as founding engineers of the Lab’s build team. This is a builder’s role with a scout’s curiosity: you will take ideas from a blank repo to a working demo in days or weeks, and spend real time researching, testing and experimenting with emerging technology so the Lab always knows what is possible next. You will report to the Senior Director, ED&T Innovation Lab, and work in a small, hands-on team across the US and India.  What you will do: Own full-stack prototypes from first commit to working demo in 2–8-week sprints, spanning front end, APIs, services, data, cloud deployment and AI. Bring ideas to life through minimally functional prototypes tested by real users on real business problems with approved data, showcasing progress in weekly demos. Build AI-powered solutions using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agents, tool calling, copilots, automation, and intelligent document and email processing. Explore emerging technologies—from AI and agents to automation, digital twins and quantum—and run time-boxed experiments, proofs of concept and technology comparisons to separate capability from hype. Shape technical direction for your prototypes: define architecture, break down delivery, assess existing Stryker capabilities for reuse and make evidence-based build-or-kill decisions, recognising a well-reasoned no as a successful outcome. Accelerate the Lab’s engineering foundations with reusable starter kits, components, templates, CI/CD pipelines and sandbox patterns, while maintaining clean code, targeted testing, secure defaults and practical documentation. Stay hands-on while reviewing code, pairing with and mentoring engineers, and partnering with the Lab leader to shape technical direction. Partner with business stakeholders and Business Innovation Partners to translate problems into buildable scope, clear hypotheses and measurable success criteria. Turn experimentation into shared insight through concise write-ups, demos, contributions to the Lab’s quarterly innovation radar for ED&T leadership and your own experiment ideas; capture what worked, what did not, and the cost and effort to scale.