Head of Onchain Engineering

Mesh; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Unlimited PTO

Budget for courses, conferences, and认证

Job summary

Mesh is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead the Full-Stack Web3 team building the products and infrastructure for a crypto payments platform. You will own the technical strategy, oversee multi-chain integrations, wallet infrastructure, and on/off-chain orchestration.

You will hire and grow a team of senior engineers, partner with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and other teams, and report to executive leadership. This role blends technical depth with strategic leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams with scaling responsibilities.
• 8+ years of overall engineering experience across frontend, backend, and on-chain components in Web3 contexts.
• Hands-on experience with Web3 building blocks including wallet connectivity and on-chain/off-chain payment flows.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy for Web3 initiatives and translate priorities into a multi-quarter plan.
• Build, manage, and grow a team of senior to staff engineers, mentoring and defining career paths.
• Lead design and technical direction for workflows across wallets, transactions, settlements, and on-chain/off-chain orchestration.
• Own planning and delivery of multi-chain integrations and on-chain infrastructure for the organization.
• Partner with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and cross-functional teams to turn requirements into a coherent roadmap.
• Represent engineering in exec planning and reporting to influence company-wide roadmaps and resourcing.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Web3 / blockchain knowledge

Tools

TypeScript

React

Go

Rust

Java/Scala

Node.js

Solidity

RPCs

Job description

About Mesh

At Mesh, our mission is to enable consumers to pay and be paid with any asset. Today, trillions of dollars in tokenized assets exist but remain largely unusable for everyday commerce. Mesh is bridging this gap by making crypto payments reliable, useful, and ubiquitous. We combine a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity for the world. Backed by leading investors like SBI, Money Forward, Paradigm, Dragonfly, Galaxy, and PayPal Ventures, we are building the infrastructure for the next era of the global economy. Join us!

Overview

We re hiring a Head of Engineering to lead our Full-Stack Web3 team building the products and infrastructure that power our crypto payments platform, from client-facing wallet connection flows and dashboards to backend transaction processing, multi-chain infrastructure, and on/off-ramp systems. Mesh is a global company headquartered in San Francisco.

What You ll Do

• Own the technical strategy for Web3 initiatives, translating company priorities into a multi-quarter plan executed across your team.


• Build, manage, and grow a team of mainly senior to staff level engineers – hire, coach, and set career paths.


• Lead the design and technical direction for complex workflows spanning wallets, transactions, settlements, and on-chain/off-chain orchestration, partnering closely with your managers on execution.


• Own planning, execution, and delivery of multi-chain integrations, wallet infrastructure (self-custody and MPC/custodial), RPC node management, and on-chain transaction monitoring at the org level.


• Partner with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and other cross-functional and external teams to turn ambiguous requirements into a coherent technical roadmap.


• Represent engineering in exec-level planning and reporting, influencing company-wide roadmap decisions and resourcing.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams with a track record of scaling teams and organizational structure.


• 8+ years of overall engineering experience, including production experience across frontend, backend, and on-chain components in a Web3/blockchain context.


• Hands-on (or recent hands-on) experience with Web3 building blocks — wallet connectivity/integrations, dApp development, blockchain RPCs and indexing, and/or on-chain/off-chain payment & settlement flows — and comfortable going deep with your teams on technical tradeoffs.


• Familiar with DeFi primitives (DEXs, swaps, lending, trading platforms) and how they operate in production systems.


• Strong understanding of the transaction lifecycle (signing, submission, execution) and a security-first mindset you can instill across an organization.


• Experience setting engineering standards and technical direction across a stack that spans modern frontend frameworks (TypeScript, React), backend services/APIs (Go, Rust, Java/Scala, Node.js, or similar), and smart contracts/on-chain interactions (Solidity).


• Solid fundamentals in building scalable, reliable, observable distributed systems (monitoring, logging, tracing, performance) and a track record of holding teams accountable to reliability bars.


• Comfort operating in the ambiguity of a fast-moving, regulated fintech environment — able to navigate cross-functional and cross-border collaboration (Mesh s teams span North America, Europe, and India).

Pay Range

$210,000 - $300,000 USD

Why You ll Love It Here

At Mesh, you re not stepping into a typical role—you re joining a rocket ship in mid-liftoff. You ll tackle complex, meaningful problems that actually move an industry forward, working alongside a sharp, motivated team that moves quickly, collaborates deeply, and expects everyone to operate with ownership. This is the kind of place where you ll see your work ship fast, make real impact, and be able to point to something and say, I built that. You ll grow fast, level up your skills, and get a front-row seat to how a high-growth company scales from the inside, with competitive comp, solid benefits, and room to stretch your craft all coming standard. If you re energized by building, learning, and shaping something big—you ll want to be here.

In-Office Expectations

Employees based in our San Francisco, New York, and Bangalore hubs are expected to work from the office at least 40% of the time (approximately two days per week). This expectation may vary slightly depending on role, team, and business needs. Certain roles that require closer cross-functional collaboration or operational support may have additional in-office requirements, which will be discussed during the interview process. Our hybrid approach is designed to balance meaningful in-person collaboration, team building, and real-time decision-making with the flexibility to work remotely. We believe this structure supports strong execution while preserving autonomy and focus time.

How We Care For Our Team

• Competitive salary and equity that grows as you and the company grow, plus comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.


• Unlimited PTO—and we mean it.


• Dedicated budget for courses, conferences, and certifications.


• Work from wherever you re most productive with our remote-friendly approach, and count on having the top-tier tools and equipment you need to do exceptional work.

Mesh Pay is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, genetic information, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, lawful alien status, national origin, age, marital status, and non-job related physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.