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

As Product Engineering Lead for Keet at Tether, you lead the engineering teams that build Keet's features: the API team, which adds feature-focused APIs to Keet's core, and the frontend team, which builds the React app. You report directly to the CTO and take direction from product, balancing roughly 70% engineering leadership with 30% product input. Keet is a fully peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app built on Holepunch's P2P stack with no servers, no middlemen, and no data harvesting. You're tasked with taking Keet to a billion users, competing directly with WhatsApp and Telegram.

What you'll do

• Run the API and frontend teams day to day, unblocking them, reviewing their work, and keeping them shipping.
• Set and hold 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, design, and anything that touches the engine.
• Work alongside Keet's product managers to turn vision and roadmap into scoped, buildable work.
• Push back when scope and reality don't match, and propose better paths when they exist.
• Bring an engineering perspective to product decisions, especially where P2P opens doors that centralized apps can't.
• Help the team move fast, using AI tools and quick prototypes to validate ideas before committing to them.
• Create clarity around team goals and make sure everyone knows what success looks like.
• Mentor team leads to build strong team operating systems, improve how their teams work with others, and grow as leaders.
• Lead by example: roll up your sleeves when the team needs it, and step back when they're ready to own it.

What you bring

• A track record as an engineering leader who has helped teams ship consumer products at speed.
• Real product sense and the ability to partner with product managers as an equal, shaping what gets built rather than just executing it.
• An intuition for distributed, local-first systems so you can work fluently on top of a P2P engine without needing to build it yourself.

About Tether

Tether is building a suite of reserve-backed financial products and services, including USDT, the world's most trusted stablecoin. The company operates across finance, energy solutions, AI infrastructure, education, and peer-to-peer technology, with Keet as its flagship secure messaging app built on decentralized architecture.