Product Engineering Lead

• Lead 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
• Ensure collaboration between the API team and deep tech teams on code reviews and design
• Partner with Keet product managers to turn vision and roadmap into scoped, buildable work
• Challenge mismatched scope and reality and propose better approaches
• Bring engineering perspective to product decisions involving P2P capabilities
• Use AI tools and quick prototypes to validate ideas
• Create clarity around team goals and success measures
• 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

• 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, and resilience
• 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 on a global financial revolution and digital finance products
• Opportunity to work on Keet, a fully peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app
• Work with blockchain, P2P, local-first, and AI technologies
• Global, geo-diverse working environment