Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

• Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
• Department: Engineering
• Helsinki, Finland
• Reports to: Engineering Manager - Business Automation
• Role Type: Permanent
• Hybrid
• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)

Who We Are

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy – day or night and in any weather, supported by ultra high-resolution imagery and high-frequency revisits.

As a trusted partner for defense, intelligence, security, and maritime domain awareness, ICEYE’s near real-time data creates a tactical advantage for mission-critical operations. Designed for dual use, the platform also serves civil protection and commercial users for natural-catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring (including oil-spill detection), and finance, contributing to global security and community resilience.

ICEYE operates internationally with offices in Finland, Poland, Spain, Japan, the UAE, Greece, and the US. The company has more than 900 employees, inspired by the shared vision of improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.

About the Role

In this role, you will join ICEYE’s engineering domain responsible for customer-facing systems and interfaces. You 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, operate, and maintain robust APIs and 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 primary development language is Go. We use PostgreSQL and NATS for storage and communication, and run on Kubernetes in both cloud (AWS) and on-prem environments.

We value curiosity, teamwork, and craftsmanship — and we follow agile principles to deliver robust and maintainable software.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Collaborate with product managers, customers, and other engineering teams to understand business needs and turn the insights into valuable solutions.
• Participate in maintaining our services in production, ensuring reliability, observability and performance.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and actively take part in code reviews and continuous improvement of our architecture and ways of working.
• Follow and apply security and quality best practices.

Requirements

• Solid experience in backend software development, preferably in Go or a similar language and operating APIs and backend systems in production.
• Eagerness to understand business and customer problems and collaborate with stakeholders to make the right tradeoffs to build things that truly matter.
• Team work mindset, you take ownership of your work while keeping the team’s goals front and center. You actively contribute to team discussions and help drive technical decisions.
• Understanding of cloud environments (e.g., AWS), infrastructure-as-code principles (e.g., Terraform) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Some experience or interest in monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• You believe testing, documentation, and code reviews are essential parts of engineering—not chores

Benefits

What We Offer:

A mission that matters: Contribute to a dynamic Earth Observation company making a real difference in the world.

Supportive environment: Work in a diverse and collaborative team with a strong focus on individual growth and development.

Competitive compensation: Base salary range for this position is contingent on your experience level, and will be negotiated individually.

Comprehensive benefits:

• Occupational healthcare, occupational and private insurance.
• Yearly benefit budget to spend on sport, transport, wellness, lunch, etc.
• Phone subscription with iPhone of choice.
• Relocation support (flight tickets, accommodation, relocation agency support).
• Time and resources for self-development, research, training, conferences, and certification schemes.
• Inspiring office environment with collaborative spaces and silent workspaces.
• Access to state-of-the-art labs and testing facilities.
• Opportunities to attend international space conferences.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At ICEYE, we believe that diversity isn't just a buzzword – it's our greatest asset.We're committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every voice is not only heard but celebrated. We know that diverse perspectives breed innovation and creativity, which is why we actively seek out individuals from all walks of life, backgrounds, and experiences. Whatever your background, we want you to bring your authentic self to the table. Join us and be part of a team where differences are not only embraced but cherished, because together, we're stronger.