Senior Software Development Engineer

What You’ll Do at Elekta

At Elekta, we’re looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to help drive innovation in our Radiation Therapy Treatment systems. You’ll be developing cutting‑edge workflow, delivery, and imaging software for medical devices—working within a safety‑critical environment where software quality is paramount and embedded into our CI/CD pipelines. Guided by system architecture and technical leadership, you’ll collaborate in agile teams to deliver impactful solutions that improve patient outcomes worldwide.

• Define, design, develop and maintain application components, services and APIs on the Elekta Domain-based service-oriented platform, hosted on containers.
• Full stack development from web and desktop-based UI development down to messaging and storage solutions.
• Maintaining and enhancing Software quality metrics including test coverage and code maintainability through code walkthroughs and attention to detail.
• Create, review and maintain tests at all levels of the V Model, including unit, component and potentially automated and manual system tests.
• Ensure that all products are developed in accordance with the applicable published development process and documentation is created in line with this.
• Contribute as needed to enhance our CI/CD pipeline and test automation environments, enabling fast and effective delivery and deployment.
• Work as part of a scrum team to not only deliver your own tasks but assist others where priorities require it, or impediments exist.
• Awareness of the safety lifecycle, participation in safety analysis, raising safety issues and involvement in creation of traceable hazard mitigation.
• Define and review requirements, apply architectural guidance and provide input into architectural definition.
• Lead the technical direction of product development across teams.

• Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Full stack development using .NET platform (C#, .NET Core).
• Front end:
  Angular.
• Object Oriented design.
• Knowledge and understanding of software engineering disciplines, practices, and techniques.
• Understanding and experience of the overall SDLC for application development.
• Experience with CI/CD.
• Understanding and experience of Agile.
• SAFe methodologies.
• Previous experience in Medical Devices (or other regulated/safety critical areas).
• Back end:
  Microservices, REST APIs, SQL, Rabbit MQ.
• Docker, Kubernetes.
• VMware.
• Azure Dev Ops.
• Domain Driven Design practices.
• Asynchronous programming and event-driven systems using Message queues.

In this role, you will work for a higher purpose; hope for everyone dealing with cancer, and for everyone regardless of where in the world, to have access to the best cancer care. In addition to this, Elekta offers a range of benefits:

• Work Pattern (you are required to work from the Crawley HQ 4 days a week with 1-day WFH)
• Up to 25 paid vacation days (plus bank holidays)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Attractive Employer Pension Contribution Package
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance
• Onsite subsidized restaurant, offering budget-friendly dining
• Love electric (Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme)

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.