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