Job Description
- Role: Fullstack Engineer, Product Engineering
- Department: Solutions
- Location: Finland, Espoo
- Reports to: Engineering Manager / Team Lead
- Employment type: Permanent / Full-time
- Working type: Hybrid
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)
The mission of the role
We build software products that turn ICEYE’s satellite data and analytics into outcomes customers can rely on during real events such as floods, wildfires, and earthquakes.
In this role you deliver end-to-end product slices across backend and frontend. You help us ship frequently, keep systems supportable in production, and continuously reduce friction in how we build and run our products.
This is a senior individual contributor role. You are expected to take ownership of your work and its production outcomes, but there is no expectation that you act as a Tech Lead for the team.
One Role, Two Paths
We are hiring for this profile to fill a critical gap in either our direct Product teams or our foundational Core Analysis Platform team. During the process, we will assess where your skills and interests leverage the most impact:
Product Teams (e.g., Flood, Wildfire): Your customer is the external client (e.g., Government or Insurance users). You focus on the “last mile”—shipping end-to-end features, visualizing insights for non-experts, and driving commercial outcomes.
Core Analysis Platform Team: Your customer is the internal expert (Analysts, Peril Leads, Meteo) and other Product Teams. You focus on the “engine”—building the high-scale execution environments, data pipelines, and advanced tools that allow our experts to model perils (Flood, Fire, Wind) accurately and efficiently.
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.
Designed for dual use, the platform serves defense, intelligence, and security users, and also civil protection and commercial users for natural catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring, and finance.
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.
If you like hard product problems, fast feedback, and real ownership, this role is a good fit.
Our domain has real constraints. Inputs can be messy, timelines can be tight, and customers need clear results. The job is to turn complexity into product experiences that are clear, reliable, and easy to evolve.
You will ship end-to-end, get changes to production frequently, and contribute to systems that others can operate. You will work with aligned autonomy. Teams move fast locally, but stay connected through shared customers, shared outcomes, and shared standards.
You are likely a good fit if
- You enjoy delivering full product slices, not just isolated components.
- You care about quality and supportability because you have seen production reality.
- You like small, reversible changes and steady progress over big rewrites.
- You collaborate naturally with Product and other functions, and you welcome office days as a way to move faster together.
- You want to grow your technical leadership through strong ownership and influence, without needing a formal Tech Lead title.
How we work
Flow over ceremony (direction we are accelerating toward)
We are moving toward a flow-optimized way of working. Finish over start. Limit WIP. Remove blockers early. Ship in small increments. We use flow and reliability signals (lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR) to steer improvements.
Paved paths with escape hatches (direction we are standardizing)
We standardize the basics so teams can move fast safely. Templates, pipelines, and guardrails should make the safe way the easy way. Escape hatches exist when context demands it. We improve paved paths based on real usage and friction.
Strategic rhythm (how we operate today, and we want you to strengthen it)
Fridays are typically Enablement Days for refactoring, improving shared capabilities, and reducing recurring toil. We expect adoption-ready outputs such as templates, libraries, pipelines, and runbooks.
You build it, you run it (supportability-first, how we operate today)
We own what we ship in production. The goal is calm operations, not heroics. That means observable, diagnosable systems with sane defaults and clear runbooks.
Responsibilities:
Deliver full product slices
- Build customer-facing functionality across backend and frontend, from API to UI.
- Turn ambiguous problems into small, testable increments and get them safely into production.
- Collaborate daily with Product, designers, analysts/scientists (as relevant), and other engineers to align on outcomes and constraints.
Build for supportability and reliability
- Participate in the team’s on-call and incident response rotation (team-dependent).
- Improve operability over time: alerts that matter, dashboards that help, logs that tell the story, and runbooks that enable safe mitigation.
- Design for safe change: small deployments, controlled releases when needed, and quick rollback paths.
Improve team flow and reduce friction
- Identify bottlenecks in delivery (flaky tests, slow CI, painful local dev, unclear interfaces or requirements) and help remove them.
- Reduce recurring toil through automation and better defaults so the team spends more time on novel problems.
- Contribute improvements back to paved paths when you hit repeated pain.
Practice pragmatic engineering
- Prefer reversible, incremental decisions and the simplest architecture that fits the current context.
- Write clear, maintainable code and document key decisions when needed (lightweight ADRs or short notes).
- Raise quality through thoughtful reviews and practical testing strategy.
Contribute to the team culture
- Be a strong peer: unblock others, share context, and help keep standards practical.
- Mentor when it is natural (pairing, reviews), especially around production readiness and maintainability.
What success looks like (first 3 to 6 months)
- Production impact: You have shipped meaningful product slices to production using our standard environments and CI/CD.
- Supportability: You have improved observability or a runbook so an incident is easier to diagnose and mitigate without tribal knowledge.
- Flow improvement: You have removed one concrete friction point (for example stabilized flaky tests, simplified a release step, improved local dev parity, clarified an interface).
- Team contribution: You are seen as a reliable end-to-end contributor who collaborates well and helps others move.
Requirements
Must-haves
- Senior-level experience delivering & maintaining cloud native production software.
- Strong experience with Python (FastAPI, async patterns) and TypeScript/React.
- Practical delivery mindset: you ship, you iterate, and you keep changes reviewable.
- Production maturity: you design for resilience, debuggability, and supportability.
- Strong communication: you can explain trade-offs clearly and align with Product and peers.
- Office collaboration: you welcome working 3 days per week in the Espoo office and thrive in direct collaboration.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with geospatial domains, remote sensing, or data-intensive applications.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (for example Terraform).
- Pragmatic use of AI-assisted workflows (for example Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude Code) with good verification habits.
Application Process
- TA screen
- Hiring manager interview
- Panel interview
- Task presentation
- Department lead interview
- SVP of Solutions interview
What We Offer at ICEYE
At ICEYE, you will join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. We know that we will succeed only through exceptional people in our team — which is why your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority.
As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. You will benefit from continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture that values collaboration, curiosity, and integrity. ICEYE is a place where your contributions have a visible impact, and where we celebrate success together.
Benefits (Subject to Candidate location)
- 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
Our Commitment to 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.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those who may need workplace adjustments. If you require any specific accommodations or assistance during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know.
Apply now to start your ICEYE journey, and help us continue to make the impossible possible together. Read more about ICEYE and working with us at iceye.com.
