Product Engineering Lead, Keet

Jobgether SRL; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote

Ownership over engineering strategy

CTO partnership

Exposure to distributed systems

Experimental culture

Mentor engineering leaders

Job summary

Keet is hiring a Product Engineering Lead based in the United Arab Emirates. You will lead API and frontend engineering teams responsible for turning product strategy into reliable features, shaping architecture, and maintaining a high engineering bar.

You will partner with product leadership, report to the CTO, and own technical decisions while empowering teams to scale a privacy-focused, peer-to-peer consumer product for global reach.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineers delivering consumer-facing products.
• Strong product sense and ability to simplify complex problems.
• Deep proficiency in JavaScript and React for frontend architecture decisions.
• Understanding of distributed and local-first systems, offline-first operation, and eventual consistency.
• Collaborates with product leaders to shape strategy and roadmaps.
• Leads by example, mentors engineering leads, and drives high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the API and frontend engineering teams day to day, removing blockers and maintaining delivery momentum.
• Own the technical design of product features and the API boundary between core and frontend experiences.
• Partner with Product Managers to translate product vision into technically viable initiatives.
• Mentor engineering leads and raise the bar for architecture, performance, and reliability.
• Encourage experimentation and AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Leadership

Product strategy

Tools

API design

Distributed systems

Job description

Product Engineering Lead, Keet, based in United Arab Emirates.

This is a senior engineering leadership role focused on scaling a global peer-to-peer messaging and video-calling product. You will lead API and frontend engineering teams responsible for turning product strategy into reliable, high-quality features. The role combines engineering leadership, product partnership, and hands-on technical decision-making. You will define technical approaches, maintain a high engineering bar, and guide teams through complex product challenges. The environment emphasizes decentralized, local-first technology, privacy, speed, experimentation, and global scale. You will work closely with product leadership and report directly to the CTO, with significant ownership over how solutions are built. This is an opportunity to shape a consumer product designed to compete at massive scale while advancing modern P2P experiences.

Accountabilities

• Lead the API and frontend engineering teams day to day, removing blockers, reviewing work, and maintaining delivery momentum.
• Establish and maintain high standards for engineering quality, including performance, reliability, maintainability, and clean API design.
• Own the technical design of product features and the API boundary between the application's core and frontend experience.
• Ensure close collaboration between API engineers and specialized engineering teams on code reviews, architecture, design decisions, and changes affecting the underlying engine.
• Partner with Product Managers to translate product vision and roadmap priorities into clear, technically viable, and appropriately scoped initiatives.
• Challenge scope and assumptions when necessary, proposing alternative approaches that improve feasibility, quality, or product impact.
• Bring engineering and distributed-systems perspectives into product decisions, identifying opportunities enabled by peer-to-peer and local-first technology.
• Encourage rapid experimentation through AI-assisted development, prototypes, and validation before committing significant engineering resources.
• Create clarity around team objectives, responsibilities, priorities, and measures of success.
• Mentor engineering leads, helping them strengthen team processes, cross-functional collaboration, and leadership capabilities.
• Lead by example by contributing technically when needed while empowering teams to take increasing ownership.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing software engineers or engineering leads delivering consumer-facing products, ideally in messaging, calling, social, or other high-scale applications.
• Strong product sense and the ability to distinguish high-value product opportunities from unnecessary complexity.
• Deep proficiency in JavaScript and React, with the ability to make informed technical decisions across modern frontend architectures.
• Strong understanding of distributed and local-first systems, including concepts such as offline-first operation and eventual consistency.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product leaders and contribute to product strategy rather than simply executing predefined requirements.
• Strong technical leadership skills, with experience setting engineering standards, guiding architecture, and improving team execution.
• Initiative, curiosity, resilience, and comfort working in a fast-moving environment with significant autonomy.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to give and receive direct, constructive feedback.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical involvement when the team or product requires it.
• Bonus: experience with local-first applications, CRDTs, synchronization engines, offline-capable mobile or desktop applications, or open-source projects.

Benefits

• 100% remote work with a globally distributed environment.
• Opportunity to lead engineering teams building a privacy-focused peer-to-peer consumer product.
• Significant ownership over engineering strategy, architecture, technical standards, and execution.
• Direct partnership with product leadership and reporting line to the CTO.
• Exposure to distributed systems, local-first architecture, P2P technologies, and large-scale consumer applications.
• An environment that encourages experimentation, rapid prototyping, AI-assisted development, and technical innovation.
• Opportunity to mentor engineering leaders and shape team culture and operating practices.
• International, highly autonomous working environment focused on ambitious product and engineering goals.