Growth Product Lead for P2P Messaging Apps (Remote)

Pomelo; Rosario; Remote; ARS 184,482,000 - 276,723,000; Full time

Job summary

Tether's Keet project seeks a Product Engineering Lead to guide API and frontend teams, building a peer-to-peer messaging app at global scale. You will report to the CTO and collaborate with product to deliver robust, scalable features. Ideal candidates bring deep JavaScript/React skills, strong product sense, and a passion for distributed, offline-first systems.

Remote, international teams welcome. You’ll mentor engineers, shape engineering standards, and balance rapid delivery with

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers or engineering leads who ship consumer products (ideally chat/calling/social apps)
• Strong product sense and ability to distinguish good features from busy ones
• Intuition for distributed, local-first systems; offline-first and eventual consistency
• Deep JavaScript and React experience
• Initiative, curiosity, resilience, and ability to give/receive direct critique
• Bonus: experience with local-first apps, CRDTs or sync engines, offline-capable apps, or open source

Responsibilities

• Run the API and frontend teams day to day: unblock, review, and keep 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.
• Ensure the API team collaborates with deep tech teams on code reviews and engine touches.
• Partner with product managers to translate vision and roadmap into buildable work.
• Push back on scope when reality disagrees and propose better paths.
• Bring an engineering perspective to product decisions, especially for distributed features.
• Help the team move fast using AI tools and quick prototypes before committing to them.
• Create clarity around team goals and measure success.
• Mentor team leads to build strong operating systems and better cross-team collaboration.
• Lead by example, rolling up sleeves when needed and stepping back when teams own it.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product sense

Distributed systems

JavaScript & React

Mentorship

Tools

React

JavaScript

Job description

Tether's Keet project seeks a Product Engineering Lead to guide API and frontend teams, building a peer-to-peer messaging app at global scale. You will report to the CTO and collaborate with product to deliver robust, scalable features. Ideal candidates bring deep JavaScript/React skills, strong product sense, and a passion for distributed, offline-first systems.

Remote, international teams welcome. You’ll mentor engineers, shape engineering standards, and balance rapid delivery with