Product Engineering Lead

• Run the API and frontend teams day to day, 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 and design
• Partner with Keet product managers to turn vision and roadmap into scoped, buildable work
• Challenge scope and propose better implementation paths
• Bring engineering perspective to product decisions involving P2P capabilities
• Use AI tools and quick prototypes to validate ideas
• Clarify team goals and define success criteria
• Mentor team leads and improve team operating systems
• Lead by example and support team ownership

• 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 skills
• Initiative, curiosity, resilience, and ability to give and receive direct critique
• Bonus: experience with local-first apps, CRDTs, sync engines, offline-capable mobile or desktop apps, or open source

• 100% remote, worldwide
• Opportunity to shape the future of digital finance
• Work on Keet, a fully peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app
• Work with cutting-edge blockchain, P2P, AI, and local-first technologies