Product Engineering Lead

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Product Engineering Lead scaling Tether’s peer-to-peer Keet messaging and video app. Leading API and React frontend teams toward global consumer-product growth.

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 the app
  • Coordinate the API team with deep tech teams on code reviews, design, and engine-related work
  • Partner with Keet product managers to turn vision and roadmap into scoped, buildable work
  • Challenge mismatched scope and reality and propose better approaches
  • Contribute engineering perspective to product decisions involving P2P capabilities
  • Help the team move quickly using AI tools and prototypes
  • Create clarity around 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
  • Experience 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 experience
  • Initiative, curiosity, and resilience
  • 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
  • Work on a global financial revolution at Tether
  • Opportunity to work on Keet, a fully peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app
  • Work with cutting-edge blockchain, P2P, and local-first technology
  • Opportunity to help scale Keet toward a billion users
  • Direct partnership with product managers and the CTO
  • Use of AI tools and quick prototypes to validate ideas