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

Tether; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tether is seeking a Product Engineering Lead to drive the Keet initiative, building scalable features on a P2P stack and leading API and frontend teams. You’ll set engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, and partner with product leaders to shape the roadmap for distributed, consumer-focused products.

You will mentor leaders, ship high-impact features, and ensure alignment with the company’s vision of private, fast, and scalable digital interactions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years leading consumer software engineering teams.
• Experience shipping features at global scale in chat/social apps.
• Strong product judgment and collaboration with PMs.
• Familiar with distributed/local-first architectures and CRDTs is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Lead API and frontend teams day-to-day, removing blockers.
• Set high engineering standards for performance and reliability.
• Own technical design of features and API surfaces.
• Collaborate with deep-tech teams on code reviews and design.
• Partner with product managers to translate vision into scoped work.
• Mentor team leads and cultivate strong operating systems.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product sense

Distributed systems

JavaScript

React

API design

Mentoring

Tools

React

JavaScript

Job description

Join Tether and Shape the Future of Digital Finance

At Tether, we’re not just building products, we’re pioneering a global financial revolution. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Tether enables you to store, send, and receive digital tokens instantly, securely, and globally, all at a fraction of the cost. Transparency is the bedrock of everything we do, ensuring trust in every transaction.

Innovate with Tether

Tether Finance: Our innovative product suite features the world’s most trusted stablecoin, USDT, relied upon by hundreds of millions worldwide, alongside pioneering digital asset tokenization services.

But that’s just the beginning:

Tether Power: Driving sustainable growth, our energy solutions optimize excess power for Bitcoin mining using eco-friendly practices in state-of-the-art, geo-diverse facilities.

Tether Data: Fueling breakthroughs in AI and peer-to-peer technology, we reduce infrastructure costs and enhance global communications with cutting-edge solutions like KEET, our flagship app that redefines secure and private data sharing.

Tether Education: Democratizing access to top-tier digital learning, we empower individuals to thrive in the digital and gig economies, driving global growth and opportunity.

Tether Evolution: At the intersection of technology and human potential, we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, crafting a future where innovation and human capabilities merge in powerful, unprecedented ways.

Why Join Us?

Keet is a fully peer-to-peer messaging and video calling app built on Holepunch's P2P stack. There are no servers, no middlemen, and no data harvesting. People talk directly to each other, with end-to-end encryption by design.

We're taking Keet to a billion users, competing head-on with WhatsApp and Telegram. Product sets the direction. We're looking for a Product Engineering Lead to turn that direction into features people love, built to a standard that holds up at global scale.

You lead the 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 on top, each with its own lead. You report directly to the CTO and take direction from product. Product owns the what and the why. You own the how and the engineering bar. The split is roughly 70% engineering leadership and 30% product.

You're a combination of three things. You're an engineering leader who has helped teams ship consumer products at speed. You have real product sense and can partner with PMs as an equal, shaping what gets built, not just executing it. And you have an intuition for distributed, local-first systems, so you can work fluently on top of a P2P engine without needing to build it yourself.

Responsabilities

Engineering

• Run the API and frontend teams day to day: unblocking, reviewing, 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 our deep tech teams on code reviews, design, and anything that touches the engine.

Product Partnership

• 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.

Leadership

• 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.

• Experience managing engineers or engineering leads who ship consumer product, ideally in chat, calling, or social apps.

• Strong product sense: you can tell a good feature from a busy one.

• Intuition for distributed and local-first systems. Offline-first and eventual consistency should feel natural. You don't need P2P protocol expertise, because our core abstracts it away.

• Deep JavaScript and React.

• Initiative, curiosity, resilience, and the ability to give and receive direct critique.

• Bonus: experience with local-first apps, CRDTs or sync engines, offline-capable mobile or desktop apps, or open source.