Hybrid Senior Backend Software Engineer – Operations

at ICEYE

• Job title: Senior Backend Software Engineer – Operations
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: €5,500 - €7,500 per month
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, Grafana, Kubernetes, PostGIS, Prometheus, React, Terraform, TypeScript, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Helsinki, Finland

About the role

• Senior Backend Engineer at ICEYE ensuring stable and trusted core APIs for satellite tasking operations. Collaborate with a diverse team to maintain high-reliability systems and evolve backend capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and support of backend capabilities, workflow automation, tooling, and APIs.
• Maintain our services in production, ensuring reliability, observability and performance as well as timely issue resolution.
• Collaborate with product managers, customers, internal stakeholders and other engineering teams to understand business needs and turn the insights into valuable solutions.
• 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.
• Understanding of both cloud (e.g. AWS) and on-prem environments, infrastructure-as-code principles (e.g., Terraform) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and operating high-reliability systems in production.
• Ability and willingness to occasionally go full-stack with Web UIs using TypeScript and React.
• 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.
• You believe testing, documentation, and code reviews are essential parts of engineering—not chores.
• Nice to have: Experience with authentication and authorization standards (OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT). Working experience as a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Hands-on experience with AI-powered engineering tools. Familiarity with Event-Driven architectures. Experience with geospatial data (PostGIS, GeoJSON). Interest in space, Earth observation, or satellite operations.

Benefits

• A job that matters in a dynamic Defence Technology and 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