3 months ago
Valencia, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Build tasking and planning engines for orbit propagation, pass prediction, acquisition geometry, sensor configuration, and coverage-footprint computation.
- Develop resilient backend services for task management, asynchronous opportunity calculation, and state synchronization.
- Design and maintain APIs and user interfaces for visualizing passes, comparing collection plans, planning tasks, and managing access to space.
- Contribute to future capabilities including multi-sensor coordination, processing-pipeline integration, and new collection strategies.
- Own architectural direction, translate ambiguous operational needs into engineering work, and collaborate with engineers and product managers.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including decoupled system design, maintainability, performance, resilience, concurrency, transactions, and CAP trade-offs.
- Production experience designing, building, and operating REST APIs, relational databases, and asynchronous workers.
- Understanding of delivery guarantees including at-most-once and at-least-once processing, idempotency, observability, and resilient production operations.
- Ability to learn technical domains such as orbital mechanics, RF physics, and geospatial data quickly.
- Ability to work through ambiguity and communicate technical trade-offs effectively across disciplines.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and tools such as NATS, Kafka, or SQS is preferred.
- Production experience with Next.js, React, TypeScript, CesiumJS, or deck.gl is preferred, especially for data-intensive or real-time visualization applications.
- Experience with orbital mechanics concepts and tools such as TLEs, SGP4, Skyfield, GMAT, or STK is preferred.
- Geospatial experience with GeoJSON, CZML, WGS84, map projections, coverage polygons, or ground footprints is preferred.
- Space, defense, intelligence, or operational software experience is preferred.
- Regular use of AI-assisted engineering tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT, with responsibility for verifying their output, is expected.
Benefits
- Permanent employment in Valencia, Spain, with a hybrid workplace model requiring three days per week in the office.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Health and wellbeing support, with benefits varying by location and confirmed during the hiring process.
- Inclusive, collaborative workplace with support for reasonable recruitment adjustments.
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening, including SUPO where required.
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About ICEYE
ICEYE builds and operates a commercial synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) satellite constellation that provides high-revisit imagery and change-detection services for government and enterprise users. It sells tasking, data and analytics subscriptions, disaster-response solutions for insurers, and turnkey sovereign constellations that national customers can own and operate. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, ICEYE’s systems support defense and intelligence, environmental monitoring, and emergency management worldwide.