Head of Off-Chain Engineering

As Head of Off-Chain Engineering at Mesh, you'll own the exchange and fiat integrations that power seamless crypto and money flows for companies like PayPal, Revolut, and Kalshi. You'll set strategy, build and lead the engineering organization, and stay hands-on enough to make reliability your competitive advantage across 300+ connected exchanges and wallets.

What you'll do

• Own off-chain engineering across Exchanges (US/EU) and Fiat (India), including reliability, velocity, roadmap, and organizational structure.
• Define the off-chain strategy and present it to the executive team, translating it into clear charters, metrics, and plans.
• Stay hands-on: review designs, dig into code, and lead from the front in major incidents.
• Define and hit SLOs for connection and transfer success across the world's largest exchanges.
• Build the integration platform, observability, and testing harnesses that make new exchanges fast to add and existing ones hard to break.
• Hire, develop, and lead managers and engineers across time zones.
• Build direct technical relationships with exchange and payments partners.
• Partner with Product, Partnerships, and Customer Success to prioritize client impact.

What you bring

• 12+ years in engineering, including several years at Director level or above leading multiple teams and managers.
• Deep crypto and payments context: you've built or run exchange, brokerage, custody, or payments systems that move real money.
• Strong technical skills and hands-on approach. You design for third-party failure and can go deep with senior engineers.
• Ability to lead both in design reviews and in front of the executive team or board, presenting strategy and trade-offs.
• You run teams with operational rigor, using metrics, on-call schedules, and postmortems as core leadership tools.
• AI-native mindset with a track record of changing how teams build with AI.

Nice to have

• Experience at a crypto exchange, payments processor, trading firm, or fintech aggregator.

What we offer

• Total annual compensation of $600,000-$900,000 (adjusted based on experience, skills, qualifications, and location; narrowed during interview process).
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Dedicated learning budget for courses, conferences, and certifications.
• Hybrid work: at least 40% in-office time (approximately two days per week) for roles based in San Francisco, New York, and Bangalore; some roles may have additional in-office requirements.
• Remote-friendly approach with flexibility to work from your most productive location.
• Top-tier tools and equipment.

About Mesh

Mesh enables consumers to pay and be paid with any asset, bridging the gap between trillions of dollars in tokenized assets and everyday commerce. Backed by leading investors including SBI, Money Forward, Paradigm, Dragonfly, Galaxy, and PayPal Ventures, Mesh combines a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity for the global economy.