Lead Full Stack Engineer, EDT Innovation Lab

Overview

Join the ED&T Innovation Lab as a founding Lead Full Stack Engineer in India, building focused prototypes that take ideas from a blank repo to a working demo in days or weeks, and researching emerging technology so the Lab always knows what is possible next.

What you'll 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.
• Equip delivery teams to scale validated prototypes with a complete handoff covering architecture, data, security context and next steps, working within Enterprise Architecture, cybersecurity, data privacy and QMS guardrails from day one.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience in delivering full-stack web applications end to end.
• Strong front-end expertise in React and TypeScript, or a comparable modern framework such as Angular.
• Back-end development in .NET/C#, Node.js or Python, RESTful APIs, and SQL and NoSQL data modelling.
• Hands-on cloud-native development and deployment experience, preferably with Microsoft Azure App Service, Functions, containers, storage and identity.
• Practical experience building LLM-powered applications, including RAG, agents or copilots, using Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs or similar technologies.
• A proven ability to turn concepts into working demos in days or weeks.
• Solid engineering foundations in Git, CI/CD, automated testing, Docker and secure coding, with effective daily use of AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot and sound judgement on code review and quality.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical partners and deliver confident demos.
• Ability to collaborate with a US-based team, including regular US Eastern Time overlap for demos, stand-ups and partner sessions.

Nice to have

• A relevant master's degree.
• Azure certifications and enterprise integration experience with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph, SAP, Power Platform and Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on.
• Experience with Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Experience in an innovation lab, R&D group, startup, rapid product team or software-product company, alongside sustained impact and multi-year ownership across roles.
• Curiosity demonstrated through open-source contributions, side projects, hackathon wins, technical writing or talks.
• Exposure to computer vision, speech, IoT and edge, digital twins, AR/VR or quantum computing.
• Experience in healthcare, medical devices or other regulated industries.

Details

• Location: Gurugram, India.
• Work mode: Onsite.
• Reports to the Senior Director, ED&T Innovation Lab, working in a small hands-on team across the US and India.
• Travel: None.