Product Engineering Lead

• Lead the API and frontend teams day to day, unblocking, reviewing, and maintaining delivery
• 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 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
• 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 and cross-team collaboration
• 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, 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 work on Keet, a fully peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app
• Work on products advancing digital finance, blockchain, AI, and peer-to-peer technology