Senior Software Development Engineer

Elekta; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global medical technology company in Crawley is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to innovate in Radiation Therapy Treatment systems. This role involves full stack development, ensuring software quality, and collaborating within agile teams to improve patient outcomes. Ideal candidates will have a degree in engineering, experience in software development, and knowledge of medical devices. The position offers a hybrid work option and a range of benefits including private medical insurance and a generous vacation policy.

Benefits

Hybrid work option

Up to 25 paid vacation days

Private Medical Insurance

Attractive Employer Pension Contribution Package

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience with Microservices and REST APIs.
• Previous experience of Medical Devices (or other regulated/safety critical areas).
• Understanding of software engineering disciplines and SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, develop and maintain application components.
• Create, review, and maintain tests at all levels.
• Contribute to enhance CI/CD and test automation environments.

Skills

Full stack development using .NET platform (C#, .NET Core)

Fluent in English with strong communication skills

Effective problem-solving skills

Object Oriented design

Knowledge of CI/CD

Understanding and experience of Agile

Education

Degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

SQL

Rabbit MQ

Job description

Overview

Are you a current Elekta employee? Please click here to apply through our internal career site Find Jobs - Elekta. Want to join a team with a mission to improve and save lives? We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers – healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities.

We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details!

We don’t just build technology. We build hope for everyone dealing with cancer.

Are you passionate about building software that makes a real difference?

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.

What you’ll do at Elekta

• 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. Ensuring the code and the system is well tested and of sufficient quality for full solution testing.
• 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.
• Working 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 of safety issues and involvement in creation of tracible hazard mitigation.
• Defining and reviewing requirements, applying architectural guidance and providing input into architectural definition.
• Leading the technical direction of product development across teams.

The right stuff

• Fluent in English with strong communication skills.
• Structured and professional approach to engineering
• Effective problem-solving skills and positive can-do attitude.

What you bring

• 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 of CI/CD
• Understanding and experience of Agile.
• SAFe methodologies.
• Previous experience of Medical Devices (or other regulated/safety critical areas)
• Back end: Microservices, REST APIs, SQL, Rabbit MQ
• Docker, Kubernetes
• VMware
• Azure DevOps
• Domain Driven Design practices
• Asynchronous programming and event driven systems using Message queues

What you’ll get

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.

• Hybrid work option (you are required to work from the Crawley HQ at least 3 days/week)
• 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)

Hiring process

We are looking forward to hearing from you! Apply by submitting your application and résumé in English, via the “Apply” button. Please note that we do not accept applications by e-mail.

Your Elekta contact

For questions, please contact the Global Talent Acquisition Partner responsible, Sarah Elmasry, at [e-mail]. We do not accept applications through e-mail.

We are an equal opportunity employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. 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.