Remote Product Engineering Lead: Build Global, P2P App

Tether; La Pampa; Remote; ARS 231,811,000 - 370,897,000; Full time

Job summary

Tether is seeking a Product Engineering Lead for Keet, a fully peer-to-peer messaging app built on Holepunch. You’ll lead the API and frontend teams, report to the CTO, balance 70% engineering leadership with 30% product, and shape features for a global scale.

You’ll mentor engineers, set high engineering standards, work with product managers, and ensure offline-first, local-first design principles while collaborating with deep tech teams.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping consumer apps.
• Strong JS/React proficiency and system design.
• Proven ability to partner with product managers.
• Familiarity with distributed/local-first concepts.
• Bonus: CRDTs, offline-first apps, or open source involvement.

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.
• Make sure the API team works closely with deep tech teams on code reviews, design, and anything that touches the engine.
• Work alongside product managers to scope and implement roadmap.
• Push back when scope and reality don't match, and propose better paths.
• Bring an engineering perspective to product decisions, especially where P2P opens doors centralized apps can't.
• Help the team move fast, using AI tools and quick prototypes to validate ideas.

Skills

Deep JavaScript

React

Engineering leadership

Product sense

Distributed systems

Mentoring

P2P knowledge

Tools

Node.js

Job description

Tether is seeking a Product Engineering Lead for Keet, a fully peer-to-peer messaging app built on Holepunch. You’ll lead the API and frontend teams, report to the CTO, balance 70% engineering leadership with 30% product, and shape features for a global scale.

You’ll mentor engineers, set high engineering standards, work with product managers, and ensure offline-first, local-first design principles while collaborating with deep tech teams.