Backend Engineer - Business Automation Team

Backend Engineer – Business Automation Team

Location: Espoo

Type of Contract: Permanent

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.

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.