How OnHires helped Mitosis scale its DeFi product team across infrastructure and frontend

DeFi companies need strong engineering teams to support both protocol-facing infrastructure and user-facing product experiences.

As Mitosis continued growing its product in the decentralized finance market, it needed to strengthen its team across two important areas: infrastructure and frontend development. Because DeFi platforms depend on both stable deployment environments and clear user interaction layers, the company needed a structured hiring process that could identify strong candidates quickly while maintaining a high technical bar.

Hiring in DeFi requires more than general software development experience. Companies need candidates who can operate in fast-moving technical environments, understand product reliability, and contribute to systems where infrastructure and usability both directly affect trust.

Mitosis needed to hire for two key roles. The DevOps Engineer role required expertise in deployment workflows, infrastructure reliability, and engineering support across a growing product environment. The Frontend Developer role required strong implementation skills, user interface awareness, and the ability to build clear product experiences in a technically complex category.

Because both roles were essential to product quality and technical scalability, the company needed a recruitment process that could evaluate each profile clearly, consistently, and efficiently.

OnHires implemented a recruitment strategy tailored to Mitosis’ DeFi environment and engineering hiring needs.

We began with role calibration sessions to define the responsibilities, expectations, and success criteria for each position. For the DevOps Engineer role, the focus was on infrastructure stability, deployment processes, automation, and the ability to support engineering velocity. For the Frontend Developer role, evaluation centered on product implementation, interface quality, collaboration with technical teams, and the ability to contribute to a smooth user experience in a Web3 context.

We then launched targeted sourcing pipelines across DevOps, frontend engineering, blockchain, and DeFi talent pools. Structured interview workflows and calibrated scorecards helped standardize candidate evaluation, while weekly hiring operations improved stakeholder alignment, accelerated feedback, and reduced delays throughout the process.

OnHires managed the recruitment process end to end, from sourcing and screening to offer coordination and onboarding support.

The structured recruitment process helped Mitosis strengthen its engineering capabilities while maintaining speed and candidate quality.

By aligning recruitment with the real requirements of each role, the company was able to hire specialists who could contribute directly to infrastructure reliability and frontend product execution. This reduced hiring friction, improved confidence in candidate selection, and supported a stronger technical foundation for scaling in the DeFi market.

The result was a more efficient hiring workflow and better support for product growth across both backend operations and user-facing development.

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This case demonstrates how structured recruitment can help DeFi companies hire engineering talent more effectively across different technical functions.

By aligning hiring with infrastructure needs, product priorities, and role-specific requirements, Mitosis was able to strengthen its team with the right engineering expertise and improve hiring efficiency for critical technical roles.