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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!
What you’ll do at Elekta
At Elekta, we're expanding our Software team in the Neuro business line treatment planning, and we are currently looking for a Senior C++ developer, with 10+ years of relevant experience. We develop Leksell GammaPlan, a desktop Linux-based integrated treatment planning system for the Leksell Gamma Knife®. By designing efficient, reliable, and high-performance software solutions, your work will directly contribute to helping medical professionals plan personalized and precise cancer treatments.
To learn more about the system you will help enhance, please visit: Leksell GammaPlan® | Stereotactic Radiosurgery | Elekta.
You will be part of a collaborative team of Software Engineers, working in our beautiful new office at "Forskaren", Stockholm’s building of the year (2024). We work with the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) environment to drive innovation in cancer treatment. Our product is a Linux-based system, with large GUI desktop applications written in C++, and we are looking for people who besides these skills also bring experience with one or more of the following areas applicable to such systems:
- Cyber security.
- Maintaining and updating a customized Linux distribution.
- Maintaining and developing large codebases, complex data structures and algorithms.
- Considerations of updateability/backward compatibility/etc. with an installed base of older products.
- Experience with developing medical systems is a bonus, but not a requirement.
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Participating in all phases of software R&D projects, with a focus on requirement specification, design, planning, implementation, testing, and documentation, while adhering to company standards. We work in a regulated industry, so understanding and following procedures is vital.
- Understanding and adhering to Elekta’s quality system while contributing to its continuous improvement.
What you bring:
To thrive in this role, you should enjoy working in an Agile team environment and be comfortable discussing, presenting, reviewing, and verifying your work and that of the team before it reaches end users. We work closely together with multiple other teams and functions within the company, so people skills are important.
We also expect that you have:
- Experience in a team-based environment with disciplined use of source code version control and branch management.
- A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Professional proficiency in English.
- Valid work permit in Sweden.
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 Mark Tazewell,
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What We Do
At Elekta, our outcome-driven and cost-efficient solutions provide lasting clinical difference and are developed through sustainable environmental, social and governance practices. We’ve been working openly and proactively with clinicians and our partners for almost half a century to advance precision radiation therapy and meet continuously evolving patient needs—no matter where they are in the world. To us, it's personal, and our global team of 4,700 employees combine passion, science, and imagination to profoundly change cancer care. We don’t just build technology, we build hope. Elekta is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in 120 countries and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.








