Senior Software Development Engineer

Elekta; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation

Holiday Purchase

Private medical insurance

Pension contribution

Cycle to work scheme

Life assurance

Onsite restaurant

EV salary sacrifice

Job summary

Elekta in Crawley is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to advance cutting‑edge workflow, delivery and imaging software for radiotherapy systems. You’ll work in a safety‑critical environment where software quality is paramount and embedded in CI/CD pipelines, collaborating in agile teams to deliver impactful patient‑centered solutions.

You’ll contribute to full‑stack development, define and maintain components, APIs and tests, participate in safety analyses, and help lead technical

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
• Full stack development with .NET platform (C#, .NET Core).
• Front end: Angular.
• Object Oriented design and software engineering disciplines.
• Familiar with SDLC and CI/CD in a safety-critical domain.
• Experience with Agile and SAFe frameworks.
• Medical devices or regulated/safety-critical domain preferred.
• Back end: Microservices, REST, SQL and messaging systems.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, develop and maintain application components, services and APIs.
• Full stack development from web/Desktop UI to messaging and storage.
• Maintain software quality metrics including tests and code quality.
• Create and maintain tests across unit, component, and system levels.
• Ensure development aligns with published processes and documentation.
• Contribute to CI/CD and test automation environments for fast delivery.
• Work in a scrum team and assist others as priorities require.
• Participate in safety analyses and hazard mitigation activities.
• Define and review requirements, provide architectural input, lead technical direction.

Skills

Full stack .NET

C# / .NET Core

Angular

OO design

CI/CD

Agile

SAFe

Medical Devices experience

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware

Azure DevOps

Domain Driven Design

Message queues / Async

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

RabbitMQ

REST APIs

SQL

Job description

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

At Elekta, we believe every individual deserves access to the best cancer care. That’s why we’re committed to developing innovative solutions that make precision radiation therapy and radiosurgery more effective, efficient, and accessible. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, we invite you to bring your expertise and energy to our team.

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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

What You’ll 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:

• 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)

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.

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.