Senior Software Engineer (Tasking and Planning)

At ICEYE, you'll join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. Your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority, with continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture where collaboration is how we win.

Our benefits are designed to support your health and wellbeing, at work and beyond. We keep improving them based on employee feedback, and offerings vary by location. Talent Acquisition will confirm what applies for this role and location during the process.

• Senior Software Engineer (Tasking and Planning)

There are very few positions where you write software that directs a satellite to collect intelligence from space. Where the physics is real, the users are in the room, and the platform is early enough that you shape what it becomes.

We are building capability that contributes to the defence of Europe. The standards are high, the problems are hard, and the impact is tangible. If you want to bring great technical skill to a mission that matters, we would like to hear from you.

• Domain Services. Backend services handling task management and sensor planning. Event-driven workers that perform opportunity calculation and synchronise state asynchronously via NATS JetStream. PostgreSQL for persistence. Responsiveness and resilience at the service of the mission.

• Customer-facing APIs. Stable, performant interfaces that can evolve but must not break users in doing so. The observability stack and troubleshooting capabilities needed to support our customers in production.

• Geospatial Databases. Performant indexes able to resolve geospatial queries against large datasets and ingest new data often.

• Tasking and Planning Engines. Orbit propagation, pass prediction, acquisition geometry, sensor configuration parameters, and coverage footprint computation. Applied science mathematics turned into operational capability via Software.

• Whatever the future brings. Cross-sensor coordination, satellite autonomy, new collection strategies, and capabilities that will emerge from continuous learning and close collaboration with customers

• Location: Valencia

• Employment type: Permanent

• Workplace model: Hybrid

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)

• AI-enhanced engineering. We lean into AI in all stages of our engineering process. We use it to learn new domains, analyse a problem space, design solutions, implement code, troubleshoot issues, and communicate better. We expect engineers to lean into these tools as a core part of how they work, not as an occasional shortcut. The goal is not to replace thinking and ownership but to make us more efficient and compress the time needed between idea and working software.

• Rapid iteration with discipline. We prototype quickly, validate ideas, discard what does not work, and invest in what does. We aim for both Speed and Rigor.

• Engineers and product, side by side. We don't work from requirements handed over a wall. Engineers sit with Product Managers and operational stakeholders, understand the mission context first-hand, and collaborate on what to build next. The best ideas come from people who understand both the problem and the technology deeply enough to see possibilities that neither side would find alone.

• Deliberate about where we invest. Not every wall needs to be indestructible. Domain boundaries, data models, and event contracts are built carefully because they are expensive to change later. Prototypes, UI experiments, and exploratory features are built to learn, not to last. We take on technical debt intentionally and with eyes open, knowing exactly which shortcuts we are taking, why, and when we will revisit them.