Product Engineering Lead

• Lead the API and frontend teams day to day, unblocking work, reviewing output, and maintaining delivery speed
• Set and maintain high engineering standards 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 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 P2P 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
• Lead by example while enabling teams to take 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 knowledge
• 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
• Work with cutting-edge blockchain, P2P, and digital finance technologies
• Opportunity to help scale Keet toward a billion users
• Direct collaboration with the CTO and product managers
• Work on a fully peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app with end-to-end encryption