Director of Engineering, Onchain at Mesh

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Mesh</strong></p> <p>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 PayPal Ventures, Paradigm, and Galaxy Ventures, we are building the infrastructure for the next era of the global economy. Join us!</p></div><p><strong>Overview</strong></p> <p>We’re hiring a Director 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. </p> <p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the technical strategy for Web3 initiatives, translating company priorities into a multi-quarter plan executed across your team.</li> <li>Build, manage, and grow a team of mainly senior to staff level engineers – hire, coach, and set career paths.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Partner with Product, Design, Compliance, Legal, and other cross-functional and external teams to turn ambiguous requirements into a coherent technical roadmap.</li> <li>Represent engineering in exec-level planning and reporting, influencing company-wide roadmap decisions and resourcing.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience managing engineering teams with a track record of scaling teams and organizational structure.</li> <li>8+ years of overall engineering experience, including production experience across frontend, backend, and on-chain components in a Web3/blockchain context.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Familiar with DeFi primitives (DEXs, swaps, lending