Software Development Engineer

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. We’re looking for a talented and driven Software Development Engineer to join our innovative team working on Elekta IntelliMax – our cutting-edge IoT platform that supports real-time insights and proactive service for life-saving medical technologies. In this role, you’ll play a key part in the specification, design, implementation, and testing of software that powers mission-critical systems used around the world. If you’re passionate about back-end development, digital solutions, and working collaboratively in a scrum team environment to deliver high-quality software, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll do at Elekta:

• Ensure that all products are developed in accordance with the applicable published development process, including coding standards.
• Ensure changes are appropriately tested before merged.
• Help to enhance CI/CD pipeline to make all aspects of product development, deployment and maintenance fast and efficient.
• Backend development using C#, performing generalist tasks within the scrum team to ensure timely delivery of effective and high-quality solutions.
• Test solutions before handing them off to QA teams, enhancing and using automated unit, component, integration, and performance tests.
• Resolve safety hazards and security exceptions in products under development or in use.
• Provide input into software design at the system, subsystem and component levels.
• With adequate input from stakeholders, defines the software requirements at subsystem and component level.
• Collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary teams on planning, designing, testing and documenting standards.
• Has an awareness of, and acts upon, business and technical drivers to their work.
• Is involved in other functional engineering activities outside of pure software (e.g. Safety Analysis, Test case review).
• Develops skills in building and maintaining external and internal relationships.
• Take personal accountability for the timeliness and quality of deliverables, working on assigned tasks as part of a team, but understanding when it is necessary to ask for help to overcome blockers.
• Share design, process, and architecture learnings with other developers.
• Take opportunities for training and learning to keep up to date with industry trends and standards in the healthcare industry and the wider software engineering domain.
• Use personal skills and ingenuity to deliver valuable innovations which will make a difference for healthcare professionals and patients who depend on our solutions.

The right stuff:

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and collaborate effectively with other developers, QA, and DevOps engineers.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned tasks.
• Comfortable working in an Agile development environment.
• Good negotiation skills capable of rational, structured and logical thinking.
• Good personal organization skills.
• Diligence and attention to detail are key along with ability to multi-task and prioritise work appropriately.
• Ability to learn quickly and be prepared to take a lead doing suitable research (with colleagues from other disciplines) to ensure requirements are thorough and properly understood.

What you bring:

• Minimum of an HNC in an engineering discipline.
• Knowledge and understanding of software engineering disciplines, practices, and techniques.
• Structured and professional approach to engineering.
• C# (Mandatory) and Javascript Backend development (Mandatory) using preferred specialist skills and knowledge wherever appropriate, but also performing generalist tasks within the scrum team to ensure timely delivery of effective and high-quality solutions.
• Object oriented software design.
• Developing for client-server applications.
• Previous use of Agile Software Development practices, especially SCRUM, XP, TDD.
• Design and implement APIs according to architectural guidelines.
• Strong understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) principles.
• Experience with test driven development and a desire to improve test automation.
• Experience using git; Understanding of git flow methodology.
• Designing test specifications using gherkin syntax for BDD development.

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 Sarah.Elmasry@elekta.com. We do not accept applications through e-mail.

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.