Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

New York City💼 Full-time💰 $282,000–$282,000🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a new Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization to embed senior engineers directly with strategic partners (exchanges, neobanks) to deliver production-grade crypto payment integrations.

Role type

Senior leadership, building a new embedded engineering function

Builds

Production crypto payment rails and integration code for strategic partners

Domain

Fintech / Cryptocurrency / Payments

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Technical leadership, organizational design, hiring senior engineers, backend/integration architecture, crypto rails expertise, executive presence, commercial acumen, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

0-1 organization building, embedding with customer engineering teams, defining engagement models

Technologies

Crypto rails, broker/exchange integration patterns

Responsibilities

Define FDE operating model and hiring standards, hire 2-3+ senior engineers, own delivery for strategic accounts, shape product strategy based on partner feedback, enforce productization of solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC leader building a new function

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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 PayPal Ventures, Paradigm, and Galaxy Ventures, we are building the infrastructure for the next era of the global economy. Join us!