Frontend Desktop Engineer (Internal)
Tether Operations Limited
WorldwideremotePosted 10 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Remote work from anywhere
- Required: React/Preact and modern JS/TS
- Required: Deep interest/experience in P2P or distributed systems
Role overview
Tether is pioneering a global financial revolution through reserve-backed tokens, stablecoins (USDT), and a diverse ecosystem spanning energy solutions (Tether Power), AI/P2P technology (Tether Data), and digital learning (Tether Education). The company operates as a global talent powerhouse with a lean, remote team focused on innovation and transparency in the fintech and decentralized web space. This specific role focuses on developing and maintaining Keet Desktop, a cross-platform P2P communications application built with React and running on Pear, Tether's open-source P2P development platform that eliminates traditional server infrastructure to enable direct deployment and user sovereignty over data.
Responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining Keet Desktop, our cross-platform P2P communications application built with React and running on the Pear runtime.
- Work on everything from UI/UX implementation to performance optimization, helping shape the future of decentralized communication.
Requirements
- Proven experience with React/Preact and modern JavaScript/TypeScript in production-scale applications.
- Strong competency in state management (Redux, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, or similar).
- Ability to write modular, maintainable, and well tested code.
- Solid skillset in testing & debugging complex frontend applications.
- Deep interest or experience with P2P technologies or distributed systems.
- Comfort working in a remote, globally distributed team; good communication skills.
- Excellent English communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience with desktop application development (Electron, Tauri, or similar runtimes).
- Familiarity with video/audio APIs (WebRTC, media streams) and real-time communication.
- Demonstrated ability to optimize UI performance: rendering, memory management.
- Experience building cross platform applications (macOS, Windows, Linux, etc).
- Bonus: Past contributions to OSS projects, especially in P2P or decentralized tech.
Benefits
- Working remotely from every corner of the world
Additional details
- Pear platform facilitates direct deployment of applications from the developer’s machine to the user, enabling seamless scalability and performance.
- Pear leverages Node.js-based technology akin to BitTorrent to create robust peer-to-peer connections and data replication systems.
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