Head of Engineering

Peek Vision

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.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

architecturebackend developmentfrontend developmentDevOpsdata systemsCI/CDtestingobservabilityinfrastructure-as-codesoftware delivery lifecycle

Soft Skills

leadershipteam developmentownershipaccountabilitycontinuous improvementstrategic thinkingcollaborationproblem-solvingpragmatic decision-makingsystems thinking