Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Who are we?

We are a Finnish-based international New Space company with employees from more than 57 countries in Finland, the US, the UK, Spain, Luxembourg, and Poland. Our team is a tight-knit group of experts from areas including engineering, software development, and radar technology. We’re innovative, driven people who strive for excellence in everything we do. Being advocates of our corporate culture, we value teamwork and curiosity, and we know how to have fun!

What do we do?

ICEYE is building and operating its commercial constellation of small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites with SAR data available to customers. Our satellites acquire images of Earth at any time – even when it’s cloudy or dark – providing commercial and government partners with unmatched persistent monitoring capabilities. Information derived from our SAR images helps customers make data-driven decisions to address time-critical challenges in various sectors, such as maritime, disaster management, insurance, and finance.

The role:

In this role, you would be developing the backend and customer facing API of our Satellite Order Management system, a user interface where our products and services are made available. This team consists of 10+ engineers working on the backend, frontend, or both. The team is supported by a UX designer, DevOps, and security engineer.

You will be developing new features, as well as new software from scratch, to make modular and extensible systems, highly available and horizontally scalable. You will help design and implement all layers of it, and also provide APIs to both internal and external stakeholders. Our stack is for the most part Go (Golang) microservices running on Kubernetes in AWS. We follow an agile process, build Infrastructure-as-code, aim at best practices, and are always willing to improve.

What you need to succeed:

• You’re a solid hands-on software engineer. You get things done but you also know when to take the time to get the design right.
• We mainly use Golang, so some experience with it is required. Outstanding coding skills in Go is a huge plus.
• Experience in designing and building business-to-business RESTful APIs.
• Ability to impact others and help them succeed as well.
• Curiosity about earth observation, satellite operations.

Things that will help in succeeding, but not required:

• Experience in access control, identity management.

• Have worked with and can consider trade-offs of different architectures, such as event-driven versus request/response, microservices versus monolith

• Have been involved in tough system architecture decision making in the past

• Experience in Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform.

• Experience in building Ecommerce platforms.

• Experience handling geospatial data: PostGIS, GeoJSON, etc

• A job that matters in a dynamic New Space environment with a scale-up approach

• An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment

• Occupational healthcare, occupational and private insurance

• A yearly benefit budget to spend as you wish (i.e. on sport, transport, wellness, lunch, etc.)

• Relocation support (i.e. flight tickets, accommodation, relocation buddy program)

• Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes

• Inspiring and collaborating offices and silent workspaces enabling you to focus

• Regular internal events for employees (e.g. sports events, team-building events, parties, etc.)

• A wide variety of best coffee, tea, snacks, and sweets to accompany your daily space mission