Engineering manager

Salary Competitive

Equity To be negotiated

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.

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.

For more information or questions please contact us at rasmus@bemyeyes.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Pension plan

Equity package

Remote work allowed

Maternity / paternity leave

Paid holiday

Work life balance

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Working at
Be My Eyes

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Be My Eyes is a unique, venture-funded, profit-with-purpose company that connects blind and low-vision people needing sighted support with volunteers and companies through live video calls. With a nearly 90% successful call rate, our volunteers assist the blind with daily tasks as simple as finding something in the kitchen to something as complex as navigating an airport. Operating in 150 countries and 60 languages, Be My Eyes is the largest digital volunteering community in the world with over 6,1 million volunteers and 450.000 blind and low-vision users. We're also a proud winner of an Apple Design Award for our app. We offer a suite of enterprise products including: • Specialized Help: an add on to your existing customer call center enabling video calls to better serve your blind and low-vision customers • Corporate Volunteering: we can have your whole team or entire company receive a call to assist a blind person providing a lesson in accessibility and meaningful volunteer service. Most companies do this as part of a team meeting, onsite or offsite, and based on our customers feedback, a great deal of joy for you and your teams. • Platinum Partnership: We will partner with the biggest brands in the world who will have the opportunity to send a “thank you” note and/or discounted products and services to our volunteers via a push notification right after they successfully complete a call. • Artificial Intelligence: Be My Eyes also possesses unique and highly valuable A.I. training assets that several of the leading experts in the world have told us would significantly accelerate most company roadmaps not only on accessibility products, but also in areas like advanced robotics, and a host of other machine learning applications. With customers like Microsoft, Google, Procter & Gamble, Verizon, Sony, Instacart, Snowflake and many others, we have a chance to dent the universe through a business model that creates simultaneous delight for our blind and low-vision community, our volunteers, and the companies utilizing our platform.