Head of Engineering
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Leading engineering team at Peek, responsible for scalable tech advancing global eye care access. Collaborating closely with product and design to build the right solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and evolve how engineering works at Peek, ensuring we build scalable, reliable, and impactful technology that advances access to eye care globally
- Operate at the intersection of product, design, and engineering — partnering closely with product leadership to ensure we are building the right solutions, in the right way
- Lead a growing engineering team of 7, expanding to around 10 by the end of 2026, working across four squads
- Responsible for the overall health of our engineering system: from architecture and technical quality, to developer experience, delivery effectiveness, and team capability
- Act as both a strategic leader and a hands-on technical guide—shaping direction whilst allowing teams to deliver independently
- Define and evolve the technical direction of our platform, ensuring it remains scalable, secure, and fit for purpose across diverse global contexts
- Partner to design and continuously improve how engineering, product, and design collaborate — including decision-making, trade-offs, and shared ownership across the product lifecycle.
- Scale the engineering function by defining role profiles, career pathways and hiring plans aligned to our roadmap
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in a product-led environment, ideally within a small to mid-sized organisation (with approx. 10-50 engineers)
- Strong technical background with the ability to guide architecture and engage across backend, frontend, DevOps, and data systems
- Experience establishing and evolving engineering practices (e.g. CI/CD, testing, observability, infrastructure-as-code)
- Demonstrated ability to balance delivery speed with long-term system health through pragmatic trade-offs
- Track record of building and developing high-performing teams, fostering ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Strong product mindset, with experience partnering closely with product and design to solve meaningful user problems
- Systems thinker, able to improve the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, with experience operating and scaling production systems in real-world environments.
Benefits:
- Find out more information about the many benefits of working at Peek
- Opportunity to make a real impact alongside supportive, mission-driven colleagues
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