Software Engineer

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Stockholm
In-Office
Healthtech • Biotech
The Role
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.

Here at Elekta, you will make a difference. We are leaders in precision radiation therapy, we're committed to ensuring everyone has access to the best cancer care possible. Are you as passionate about humanity and innovation as we are? Then we would love to meet you!

What you’ll do at Elekta

At Elekta, we're expanding our Neuro business line treatment planning software team. 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", Stockholms building of the year. We work with the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) environment to drive innovation in cancer treatment.

We will be expanding our team with a mix of junior and mid-senior developers, with a mix of skillsets. Our product is a Linux-based system, largely 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:

  • GUI desktop application development

  • Cyber security

  • Virtualization and cloud-connected systems

  • Radiation therapy systems, dose handling, DICOM

  • Maintaining and updating a customized Linux distribution

  • Considerations of updateability/backward compatibility/etc. with an installed base of older products

  • Configuration management, continuous integration pipelines, etc.

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.

  • Evaluating technologies, methodologies, and products to enhance software development.

  • Applying Agile principles and practices, following the SAFe methodology as part of a Scrum team.

  • 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:

  • 1-10 years of professional commercial experience in C++ development.

  • 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.

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 your Talent Acquisition Partner responsible, Gustaf Ericson at email [email protected].  

 
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.

As a leader in precision radiation therapy, Elekta is committed to ensuring every patient has access to the best cancer care possible. We openly collaborate with customers to advance sustainable, outcome-driven and cost-efficient solutions to meet evolving patient needs, improve lives and bring hope to everyone dealing with cancer. 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 more than 120 countries and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information, visit elekta.com or follow @Elekta on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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The Company
Atlanta, GA
4,700 Employees
Year Founded: 1972

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.

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