Product Engineering Lead
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Product Engineering Lead shaping Keet, Tether’s peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app. Leading API and React frontend teams toward globally scalable consumer features.
Responsibilities:
- Run the API and frontend teams day to day, including unblocking, reviewing, and keeping them shipping
- Set and maintain a high engineering bar for performance, reliability, and clean APIs
- Own technical design of features and the API surface between Keet's core and app
- Coordinate API team collaboration with deep tech teams on code reviews, design, and engine-related work
- Partner with Keet's product managers to turn vision and roadmap into scoped, buildable work
- Challenge unrealistic scope and propose better implementation paths
- Bring engineering perspective to product decisions involving peer-to-peer capabilities
- Use AI tools and rapid prototypes to validate ideas
- Clarify team goals and define success criteria
- Mentor team leads and improve team operating systems and collaboration
- Lead by example while enabling teams to take ownership
- Report directly to the CTO and take direction from product
Requirements:
- Experience managing engineers or engineering leads who ship consumer products, ideally in chat, calling, or social apps
- Strong product sense
- Intuition for distributed and local-first systems
- Familiarity with offline-first and eventual consistency
- Deep JavaScript and React knowledge
- Initiative, curiosity, resilience, and ability to give and receive direct critique
- Bonus: experience with local-first apps, CRDTs or sync engines, offline-capable mobile or desktop apps, or open source
Benefits:
- 100% remote, worldwide
- End-to-end encrypted, privacy-focused product environment
- Opportunity to work on Keet, a peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge blockchain, AI, and peer-to-peer technologies













