Role Highlights
🔹Title: Backend Engineer - Business Automation Team
🔹Location: Espoo
🔹Type of Contract: Permanent
Who are we?
ICEYE is the global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, revolutionizing Earth observation with real-time, all-weather, day-and-night imaging. As the owner and operator of the world's largest SAR satellite constellation, we provide critical insights that empower industries like maritime, disaster management, insurance, and finance to make informed decisions.
Headquartered in Finland, with a presence in five international locations, our diverse team of 600+ experts from nearly 60 countries shares a bold mission: to enhance life on Earth by delivering reliable, data-driven solutions. At ICEYE, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and collaboration, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in space technology to solve the world's toughest challenges.
Why Join ICEYE?
At ICEYE, we're not just launching satellites, we're redefining what's possible with SAR technology. Join a team of passionate innovators solving real-world challenges and making a tangible impact. We foster a dynamic and inclusive environment where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly matter. With continuous learning opportunities, cutting-edge projects, and collaboration with industry-leading experts, you'll have the chance to grow, innovate, and shape the future of Earth Observation.
Why you will Love this role?
In this role, you will join ICEYE's Business Automation team and contribute to the development of our Core platform and APIs, the backbone of our customers' ability to operate and task our satellite fleet.
You'll work closely with other engineers to design, build, and maintain high-quality backend services that support both customer-facing and internal systems. You'll have the opportunity to learn from experienced engineers, collaborate across domains, and grow your technical and problem-solving skills in a fast-moving and high-reliability environment.
Our stack is primarily Go, running on Kubernetes in both cloud (AWS) and on-prem environments. We use PostgreSQL and Terraform for infrastructure as code. The team continuously evolves its architecture toward modern practices such as Event-Driven Architecture.
We value curiosity, teamwork, and craftsmanship, and we follow agile principles to deliver robust and maintainable software.
What will you do in this role?
- Contribute to the design, development, and support of backend capabilities and APIs, following best industry practices.
- Participate in planning, estimation, and delivery within an agile team environment (e.g., Kanban or Scrum).
- Collaborate with product managers, customers, and other engineering teams to understand business needs and deliver valuable solutions.
- Participate in maintaining our services in production, ensuring reliability and performance.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and actively take part in code reviews and continuous improvement.
- Follow and apply security and quality best practices.
Requirements
What will you need to be successful in this role?
- 4+ years of experience in similar roles.
- Solid experience in backend software development, preferably in Go or a similar language.
- Practical experience building and maintaining APIs used in production.
- Familiarity with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Understanding of cloud environments (e.g., AWS) and infrastructure-as-code principles (e.g., Terraform).
- Some experience or interest in monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
- A collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn.
- Passion for writing clean, tested, and reliable code.
Our Commitment To You
When you apply to a role at ICEYE, we commit to responding to your initial application within 5 working days, if not sooner. When you are contacted by the Talent Partner managing the role, they will be your key point of contact throughout the interview and assessment process.
We commit to ensuring that you are kept updated about the status of your application, and that any questions you have are answered as soon as possible.
Don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't tick all the boxes, your passion and potential are just as important to us!
Benefits
What's In It for You?
- A job that matters in a dynamic Earth Observation environment with a scale-up approach
- An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment
- Occupational healthcare, occupational and accident insurance
- A yearly benefit budget to spend as you wish (i.e. on sport, transport, bike benefit, wellness, lunch, etc.)
- Phone subscription with iPhone of choice
- Relocation support (i.e. flight tickets, accommodation, relocation agency support)
- Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes
- Inspiring and collaborating offices and silent workspaces enable you to focus
- A wide variety of the best coffee, tea, snacks, and sweets to accompany your daily space mission
- Competitive salary contingent on your experience level, and will be negotiated individually
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At ICEYE, diversity is more than just a value - it's our greatest strength. We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is not only heard but celebrated. Diverse perspectives drive innovation and creativity, so we actively seek individuals from all backgrounds and experiences.
No matter your background, we encourage you to bring your authentic self to the team. Join us and be part of a workplace where differences are embraced and valued, because together, we're stronger.
Apply now to begin your ICEYE journey and help us make the impossible possible.
Learn more about ICEYE and life at our company at iceye.com.
Ready to launch your career? Apply now and help us build the future of Space Tech! 🚀
