Mesh
Head of Off-Chain Engineering
$600K–$900K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 12+ years in engineering, including several years at Director level or above leading multiple teams and managers.
About the job
Leads Mesh’s off-chain engineering organization and strategy for exchange and fiat integrations, focusing on reliability, growth, and successful crypto and money transfers.
What you'll do
- Set off-chain engineering strategy, roadmaps, metrics, and SLOs; present plans and trade-offs to executives.
- Lead design reviews, code-level work, and major incident response; build integration, observability, and testing capabilities.
- Hire and lead managers and engineers, develop partner relationships, and collaborate across Product, Partnerships, and Customer Success.
What they ask for
- 12+ years in engineering, including several years at Director level or above leading multiple teams and managers.
- Deep crypto and payments experience building or operating exchange, brokerage, custody, or payments systems that move real money.
- Strong technical and hands-on engineering expertise, including designing for third-party failures.
- Operational leadership using metrics, on-call, and postmortems; track record of changing how teams build with AI.
Nice to have
- Experience at a crypto exchange, payments processor, trading firm, or fintech aggregator.
Pay
$600,000-$900,000 USD total annual compensation (up to); base salary range not specified.
AI focus
AI-native leadership with a track record of changing how teams build with AI.
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