Senior Software Engineer

Location: Remote (timezone: UTC -1 to UTC +3). 

Working Day: Flexible working hours throughout the week. Daily collective overlapping hours are 10:00-16:00 UTC Monday to Friday. Our Full Time work week is approximately 40 hours.

Division:  Product

Team:  DevOps; Meet the Peek Team.

Travel (optional):  up to 8% travel per annum

Salary Range: Peek benchmarks annual salary based on market ranges per jurisdiction. A selection of our salary ranges for this role are as follows:

• 7,500,000 – 8,500,000 KES per annum, based on Kenya jurisdiction.
• 225,000,000 – 260,000,000 UGX per annum, based on Uganda jurisdiction.
• 1,200,000 – 1,350,000 ZAR per annum, based on South Africa jurisdiction.
• 65,000 – 75,000 EUR per annum, based on Spain jurisdiction.
• 70,000 – 90,000 GBP per annum, based on UK jurisdiction.

To Apply: Submit your full application through our recruitment centre.

The Role

Millions of people worldwide are losing their sight unnecessarily. Join a mission driven award winning team who are intent on changing this.As a Senior Devops Engineer, you’ll join an award-winning team working on life-changing technology to improve access to eye care for underserved communities. Your work will directly influence the scalability and optimization of critical health services.

As part of a small, senior DevOps team, you will:

• Deliver impactful, full-stack solutions from mobile apps to cloud-hosted RESTful services.
• Leverage automation, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools to streamline the entire software delivery process
• Contribute to software design, development, and infrastructure in collaboration with product and technical teams.
• Support global deployments, driving innovation and scale in diverse settings.

5 Key Responsibilities:

• Translate requirements into robust, scalable software designs.
• Build, test, and deploy high-quality solutions.
• Support advanced troubleshooting (2nd/3rd-line support).
• Guide infrastructure provisioning and monitoring.
• Partner with product teams to shape solutions.

Your Skillset:

• Deep expertise in TypeScript (front and backend)
• Experience with Linux, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven track record of the full software development life cycle in Agile environments.
• A strong advocate of automated testing.

Bonus Skillset:

If you have any of the following skillsets it’s a bonus for this role:

• Proficiency in tools like Angular, NestJS, MongoDB, and Docker
• Experience with mobile frameworks (e.g., Cordova, Android).
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS, Ansible, Rundeck, or similar technologies.
• Experience managing infrastructure-as-code management with one of the leading cloud providers.

What You’ll Experience at Peek:

• Purpose-driven work: Shape systems impacting millions annually.
• Ownership & autonomy: Operate in a culture that values self-management and accountability.
• Global collaboration: Work with a multidisciplinary team across the globe.
• Flexibility: Remote-first ethos with a supportive, mission-driven environment.
• Growth: Opportunities to shape your role in a rapidly scaling organization.

Notable Recent Projects We’ve Worked On:

• Acuity Testing Tools: Implemented tools like the presbyopia calculator and near vision acuity testing allowing patient’s near vision to be tested by anyone, anywhere using our mobile app
• WhatsApp Messaging: Decreased costs and improved accessibility for reminder services in our partners’ programmes
• Data Analytics Tool: Integrated reporting and data analytics using AWS Athena and Preset.io
• Automatic Updates for Mobile Apps: Developed automatic updates for our Angular hybrid mobile application making it a progressive application
• A/B Testing Implementation: Delivered tools for programme implementers which help drive better decision-making through data-driven insights.

Your work at Peek will continue to shape systems and products that directly impact millions of lives annually.