This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Armenia, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Oversee daily operations of the API and frontend teams, addressing obstacles, conducting reviews, and ensuring timely delivery.

• Establish and uphold rigorous engineering standards for performance, reliability, and high-quality APIs.

• Take charge of the technical design for features and the API interface between Keet's core system and application.

• Facilitate collaboration among the API team and specialized tech teams during code reviews and design processes.

• Collaborate with Keet product managers to translate vision and roadmap into actionable and feasible tasks.

• Challenge project scope and suggest more effective implementation strategies.

• Provide an engineering perspective on product decisions related to P2P functionalities.

• Utilize AI tools and rapid prototypes to test and validate concepts.

• Define team objectives and establish criteria for success.

• Mentor team leaders and enhance team operating processes.

• Lead by example and encourage team ownership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing engineers or engineering leads focused on delivering consumer products, preferably in chat, calling, or social applications.

• Strong product intuition.

• Understanding of distributed and local-first system architectures.

• Knowledge of offline-first approaches and eventual consistency principles.

• Proficiency in JavaScript and React.

• Demonstrated initiative, curiosity, resilience, and the capacity to provide and accept direct feedback.

• Bonus: Experience with local-first applications, CRDTs, synchronization engines, offline-capable mobile or desktop applications, or open-source projects.