Product Engineering Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee the daily operations of the API and frontend teams, including removing obstacles, conducting reviews, and ensuring ongoing progress.

• Establish and uphold a high standard of engineering excellence concerning performance, reliability, and well-structured APIs.

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

• Facilitate collaboration within the API team in conjunction with specialized tech teams on code reviews, design, and engine-related projects.

• Collaborate with Keet's product managers to transform vision and roadmap into actionable, feasible tasks.

• Challenge unrealistic project scopes and propose more effective implementation strategies.

• Contribute an engineering perspective to product decisions related to peer-to-peer functionalities.

• Utilize AI tools and rapid prototyping to validate concepts.

• Define team objectives and establish success metrics.

• Mentor team leaders and enhance team operating systems and collaboration efforts.

• Lead by example while empowering teams to take ownership of their work.

• Report directly to the CTO and receive guidance from product management.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing engineers or engineering leads who deliver consumer products, preferably within chat, calling, or social applications.

• Strong understanding of product dynamics.

• Intuitive grasp of distributed and local-first systems.

• Knowledge of offline-first approaches and eventual consistency.

• Extensive experience with JavaScript and React.

• Demonstrated initiative, curiosity, resilience, and the ability to provide and accept constructive feedback.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment, available globally.

• Work within a privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted product ecosystem.

• Opportunity to contribute to Keet, a peer-to-peer messaging and video calling application.

• Engage with innovative technologies including blockchain, AI, and peer-to-peer solutions.