Engineering manager

About Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes is on a mission to make the world more accessible for the 340 million people who are blind or have low vision. Our apps connect people with volunteers, companies and AI through live video, free of charge, so they can handle the inaccessible parts of everyday life at home and at work.

The idea came from Hans Jørgen Wiberg, a Danish craftsman with low vision. The app launched in 2015, drew 10,000 volunteer sign-ups in its first 24 hours, and now has millions of volunteers helping in more than 180 languages. Today our products include the Be My Eyes app, Be My AI, Be My Eyes for Smart Glasses, the Service Directory and Be My Eyes for Desktop.

We build products with our community, not just for it, and their needs come first even when that challenges our own assumptions. We move fast, care about the details and take ownership of what we ship. We see mistakes as part of pushing boundaries, and we take kindness seriously while keeping room for fun.

Read more about our story

About the role

You'll own the "how" of product development. The role sits where engineering leadership meets hands-on technical work: you'll lead engineers across mobile, web and backend, and stay close enough to the code to make real technical calls.

You'll partner closely with Product and Design to ship software that blind and low vision users depend on daily. You'll also grow the people on your team, so they leave each year stronger engineers than they started it.

Small team, global impact

Few places let you work on a small team and still reach millions of people. Our whole product and engineering team is about 12 people. What we ship directly shapes the quality of life of blind and low vision people around the world.

We're also working to reach the rest of the 340 million people who are blind or have low vision, wherever they live and whatever device they use. Our tools are free for the people who rely on them. We build them to improve lives, not to make a quick profit.

For your career, that means rare scope. Your decisions reach real people fast, and you'll see the difference your team makes.

What you'll do

• Set technical direction, and give the team ground-up context on how product decisions shape implementation
• Manage and develop a team of 5–6 engineers across iOS, Android, web and operations
• Be the technical fix-it person when problems fall through the cracks
• Partner with the CTO, VP of Product and Head of Design to plan and deliver work
• Drive engineering quality across AI-powered features, mobile apps and infrastructure
• Keep projects moving across competing priorities, without losing sight of what matters to our users

What we're looking for

• 4+ years in software engineering and engineering leadership
• Strong enough technically to read code, make architectural calls and unblock engineers
• A track record of developing engineers — coaching them and growing their careers, not just managing their work
• Comfort with ambiguity and competing priorities
• Real care about accessibility and about building with the people who use what you ship

Nice to have

• Lived experience as a blind or low vision person
• Experience shipping iOS or Android apps that work well with VoiceOver or TalkBack
• Experience building or running AI- or LLM-powered product features
• Hands-on time with Python/Django, React or Kubernetes
• Familiarity with accessibility standards such as WCAG

Open to everyone

We welcome applicants of every age, gender and ability. If you don't tick every box above but the role excites you, we'd still like to hear from you.

Lived experience as a blind or low vision person is a real strength on our team. It brings first-hand insight into how our products work in daily life, which leads to better decisions about what we build and how.

If you need adjustments at any stage of the hiring process, tell us and we'll arrange them.