Product Engineering Lead, Keet

<h3>Accountabilities</h3><li>Lead the API and frontend engineering teams day to day, removing blockers, reviewing work, and maintaining delivery momentum.</li><li>Establish and maintain high standards for engineering quality, including performance, reliability, maintainability, and clean API design.</li><li>Own the technical design of product features and the API boundary between the application's core and frontend experience.</li><li>Ensure close collaboration between API engineers and specialized engineering teams on code reviews, architecture, design decisions, and changes affecting the underlying engine.</li><li>Partner with Product Managers to translate product vision and roadmap priorities into clear, technically viable, and appropriately scoped initiatives.</li><li>Challenge scope and assumptions when necessary, proposing alternative approaches that improve feasibility, quality, or product impact.</li><li>Bring engineering and distributed-systems perspectives into product decisions, identifying opportunities enabled by peer-to-peer and local-first technology.</li><li>Encourage rapid experimentation through AI-assisted development, prototypes, and validation before committing significant engineering resources.</li><li>Create clarity around team objectives, responsibilities, priorities, and measures of success.</li><li>Mentor engineering leads, helping them strengthen team processes, cross-functional collaboration, and leadership capabilities.</li><li>Lead by example by contributing technically when needed while empowering teams to take increasing ownership.</li><h2>Requirements</h2><li>Proven experience managing software engineers or engineering leads delivering consumer-facing products, ideally in messaging, calling, social, or other high-scale applications.</li><li>Strong product sense and the ability to distinguish high-value product opportunities from unnecessary complexity.</li><li>Deep proficiency in JavaScript and React, with the ability to make informed technical decisions across modern frontend architectures.</li><li>Strong understanding of distributed and local-first systems, including concepts such as offline-first operation and eventual consistency.</li><li>Ability to collaborate effectively with product leaders and contribute to product strategy rather than simply executing predefined requirements.</li><li>Strong technical leadership skills, with experience setting engineering standards, guiding architecture, and improving team execution.</li><li>Initiative, curiosity, resilience, and comfort working in a fast-moving environment with significant autonomy.</li><li>Strong communication skills and the ability to give and receive direct, constructive feedback.</li><li>Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical involvement when the team or product requires it.</li><li>Bonus: experience with local-first applications, CRDTs, synchronization engines, offline-capable mobile or desktop applications, or open-source projects.</li><h2>Benefits</h2><li>100% remote work with a globally distributed environment.</li><li>Opportunity to lead engineering teams building a privacy-focused peer-to-peer consumer product.</li><li>Significant ownership over engineering strategy, architecture, technical standards, and execution.</li><li>Direct partnership with product leadership and reporting line to the CTO.</li><li>Exposure to distributed systems, local-first architecture, P2P technologies, and large-scale consumer applications.</li><li>An environment that encourages experimentation, rapid prototyping, AI-assisted development, and technical innovation.</li><li>Opportunity to mentor engineering leaders and shape team culture and operating practices.</li><li>International, highly autonomous working environment focused on ambitious product and engineering goals.</li>