Product Engineering Lead, Keet (100% Remote, Worldwide)

About the role

Tether is hiring a Product Engineering Lead for Keet, its peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app built on a P2P stack with no servers and end-to-end encryption. The role reports directly to the CTO and takes direction from product; it is about 70% engineering leadership and 30% product. It is fully remote and open worldwide.

Key responsibilities

• Run the API and frontend teams day to day: unblock, review and keep them shipping.
• Set a high engineering bar for performance, reliability and clean APIs.
• Own the technical design of features and the API surface between Keet's core and the app.
• Make sure the API team works closely with deep tech teams on code reviews and design.
• Partner with product managers to turn vision and roadmap into scoped, buildable work, push back on mismatched scope and bring an engineering perspective to product decisions.
• Help the team move fast using AI tools and quick prototypes to validate ideas.
• Create clarity around team goals, mentor team leads and lead by example.

Required profile

• Experience managing engineers or engineering leads who ship consumer products, ideally in chat, calling or social apps.
• Strong product sense and intuition for distributed, local-first systems; offline-first and eventual consistency should feel natural.
• Initiative, curiosity, resilience and the ability to give and receive direct critique.

Required skills

• Deep JavaScript and React.
• Bonus: experience with local-first apps, CRDTs or sync engines, offline-capable mobile or desktop apps, or open source.