Engineering Team Lead
ICEYEFinland21 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering
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As an Engineering Team Lead, you will take on an essential leadership role within our engineering domain to deliver the commercial systems and interfaces enabling our customers to operate and task their own satellites.
You are focused on driving technical excellence and disciplined execution. You are expected to guide the team in architectural decisions, define and uphold strong engineering principles, and foster a culture of high standards. You play a critical part in aligning technical direction with product goals, ensuring scalable, maintainable, and reliable software delivery through structured engineering practices and effective cross-functional collaboration.
Requirements
Technical Execution & Leadership
Must-Have
You are focused on driving technical excellence and disciplined execution. You are expected to guide the team in architectural decisions, define and uphold strong engineering principles, and foster a culture of high standards. You play a critical part in aligning technical direction with product goals, ensuring scalable, maintainable, and reliable software delivery through structured engineering practices and effective cross-functional collaboration.
Requirements
Technical Execution & Leadership
- Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of our software delivery with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability .
- Facilitate architecture and design discussions and align with other domains and company-wide technical strategies.
- Ensure high engineering standards through following engineering performance, engaging into improvement initiatives and providing technical guidance.
- Act as the delivery coordinator for your squad, ensuring timely and quality-focused software releases.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies and champion best practices tailored to the team's needs.
- Own the work scope and execution tracking, working closely with product managers to maintain alignment on priorities
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for product managers and stakeholders to align on company objectives, feature feasibility, scope, and technical trade-offs.
- Coordinate with other engineering teams to ensure architectural consistency and reliable integrations. Proactively engage into cross team collaboration and facilitation.
- Represent the team in technical planning and roadmap discussions throughout the engineering organisation
- Mentor and support the professional development of team members, helping them grow in their careers and take on new challenges.
- Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Help identify development opportunities for team members and support their career growth.
- Encourage team ownership and accountability while maintaining a supportive environment.
- Promote high engineering standards and team excellence through regular feedback and coaching.
- Actively foster a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
Must-Have
- Demonstrated product mindset: genuine interest in understanding the business problems to solve, and strong ability to lead the design and delivery of reliable software products.
- Previous experience in backend software engineering in a context of delivering API based customer products.
- Strong drive and energy to deliver and get things done in a fast pace context
- Proven ability to collaborate closely with Product Management as a strategic partner, ensuring alignment between technical decisions and product outcomes.
- Experience in leading software teams
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop individuals, providing tailored feedback and supporting them in their journey to reach their full potential.
- Experience in defining and applying engineering principles
- Enthusiasm towards Gen-AI adoption in an engineering organization
- Experience in operating production systems, including support, alerting, and incident response.
- Experience with Golang, PostgreSQL React
- Hands on experience with Gen-AI (e.g. Cursor AI, AI agents, MCP servers etc.)
- Exposure to event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, Observability as well as system performance monitoring.
- Interest in space, earth observation, or working with geospatial data.
- Our software product delivery is predictable, aligned with business priorities, and technically sound.
- The delivered software products are of high quality and reliable
- The team operates smoothly with high morale and minimal blockers.
- Stakeholders are consistently well-informed and confident in the delivery pipeline.
- Engineering standards are upheld through your influence and leadership without direct managerial authority.
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