Head of Off-Chain & Exchange Integrations

Mesh; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Mesh is a crypto payments platform seeking a Head of Off-Chain Engineering to own exchanges and fiat integrations, set strategy, build the org, and stay close to the code to ensure reliability remains a competitive edge.

You will lead architecture for reliability, define and hit SLOs, hire across time zones, and partner with Product and Partnerships to maximize client impact while maintaining a hands-on, technically deep leadership style.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in engineering with director-level experience or higher.
• Deep crypto and payments context: built or run exchange, brokerage, custody, or payments systems.
• Very technical and hands-on; design for third-party failure and senior engineering collaboration.
• Comfortable presenting strategy and trade-offs to execs/board.

Responsibilities

• Own off-chain engineering across Exchanges (US/EU) and Fiat (India): reliability, velocity, roadmap, and org.
• Define the off-chain strategy and present it to the exec team; translate into 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 enable rapid addition of exchanges.
• 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 maximize client impact.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Crypto/payments domain

System architecture

Incident management

AI-native leadership

Job description

Mesh is a crypto payments platform seeking a Head of Off-Chain Engineering to own exchanges and fiat integrations, set strategy, build the org, and stay close to the code to ensure reliability remains a competitive edge.

You will lead architecture for reliability, define and hit SLOs, hire across time zones, and partner with Product and Partnerships to maximize client impact while maintaining a hands-on, technically deep leadership style.