DeFi Jobs in Crypto & Web3

DeFi powers permissionless lending, trading, and yield through protocols like Uniswap, Aave, Curve, and Compound. Building in this space means working with AMMs, lending markets, liquid staking, and derivatives, where economic design is as important as code, and a single flaw can cascade through composable money legos.

Roles span smart contract engineering, protocol research, quant analysis, and frontend work, but all demand respect for the risks: oracle manipulation, flash-loan attacks, and liquidation cascades. Employers value people who understand both the financial mechanics and the security surface, and who can reason about incentives, liquidity, and how protocols interact under stress.

123open jobs
$102k–$175ktypical salary
88companies hiring
5added this week
100%remote

Open DeFi roles

123 jobs

Enterprise Partnerships Lead (Financial Markets)

New
Risk Labs · Remote
$100k–$200k today View →

Capital Market Associate

Gauntlet · Remote
Asset-backed FinanceFinancing TransactionsStructured CreditCapital Markets
$75k–$125k 2 days ago View →

Product Manager DeFi integrations

Koinly · Remote
$70k–$90k 2 days ago View →

HR Business Partner

Coinbase · Remote
$176k–$207k 4 days ago View →

Rust Engineer, DeFi / QA Engineer

Douro Labs / Unlimit · Remote
RustPlaywrightCypressPostman
$60k–$160k 6 days ago View →

Senior Security Engineer

Gauntlet · Remote
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptAI
$180k–$210k 7 days ago View →

Senior Software Engineer New Markets

Alpaca · Remote
GogRPCReactfinancial APIs
$87k–$109k 9 days ago View →

Prediction Markets Trader

DRW · Remote
Pythonquantitative financestatisticsBayesian methods
$175k–$200k 10 days ago View →

Solutions Architect

Blockdaemon · Remote
TypescriptSolidityRustGo
$150k–$180k 13 days ago View →

Accountant

Gauntle · Remote
AccountingFinanceUS GAAPExcel
$100k–$110k 14 days ago View →

Risk Manager (Crypto Fund / DeFi & Quant Strategies)

EMCD · Remote
risk managementcryptoDeFiquantitative analysis
$92k–$155k 15 days ago View →

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

MoonPay · Remote
LinuxJavaScriptTypescriptNode.JS
$170k–$220k 16 days ago View →

Full Stack Engineer / Senior Backend Engineer

Improbable / Offchain Labs · Remote
TypeScriptGolangRustWASM
$80k–$150k 18 days ago View →

Senior Smart Contract Engineer - Base

Base · Remote
Soliditysmart contractsbackend developmentcrypto
$186k–$219k 19 days ago View →

Senior Blockchain Engineer

UseBlocky · Remote
Smart ContractsSolidityEthereumNode.JS
$250k–$300k 20 days ago View →

Senior Solutions Architect, Banking and Capital Markets

Chainlink Labs · Remote
BlockchainDeFiMarketsPython
$125k–$273k 21 days ago View →

Blockchain Security Engineer - (Solidity / Rust / Golang)

CertiK · Remote
SolidityRustGolangPython
$102k–$180k 21 days ago View →

Data Analyst

SBI Investment · Remote
SQLdata visualizationTableauPower BI
$80k–$96k 24 days ago View →

Director, Crypto Protocols

Figure · Remote
GolangRustSolidity
$174k–$261k 27 days ago View →

Assurance Senior (Blockchain)

Bpmcpa · Remote
Microsoft OfficeExcelWordBlockchain analysis
$68k–$112k 27 days ago View →

Events Marketing Manager

MoonPay · Remote
$100k–$140k 28 days ago View →

Senior People Operations Specialist / Affiliate Business Development Manager

LI.FI / OKX · Remote
People OperationsHRSaaSfintech
$60k–$90k 29 days ago View →

Security Engineer, Product Security

Chainlink Labs · Remote
GoRustUnixSolidity
$106k–$260k 1 month ago View →

Senior Software Engineer, Data Products

Chainlink Labs · Remote
GolangSolidityTypeScriptRust
$129k–$304k 1 month ago View →

Senior Legal Counsel

Lido · Remote
$148k–$158k 1 month ago View →

Frequently asked questions

What technical skills do DeFi roles require?
It depends on the role, from Solidity for protocol engineering to data and modeling for quant work, but understanding AMMs, lending, and oracle risk is broadly expected.
Is finance knowledge needed for DeFi jobs?
It helps significantly. Grasping concepts like liquidity, slippage, collateralization, and liquidations lets you reason about protocol design and risk.
What are the biggest risks in DeFi development?
Oracle manipulation, flash-loan exploits, reentrancy, and economic attacks from composability. Security and incentive design are central to the work.