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.

152open jobs
$112k–$189ktypical salary
103companies hiring
2added this week
96%remote

Open DeFi roles

152 jobs

DeFi Operations Specialist - Bullish

New
Bullish · Remote
DeFifinancial operationstrading supporttreasury management
$100k–$145k today View →

Product Manager, DeFi Borrow

Coinbase · Remote
Direct apply
$180k–$212k 6 days ago View →

Staff Backend Engineer, Vaults / Staff Smart Contract Engineer

Aave Labs · Remote
Direct applyRustC++GoZig
$140k–$200k 18 days ago View →

Engineering Manager, Wallet

Mysten Labs · Remote
Direct apply
$180k–$260k 20 days ago View →

Senior Software Engineer- Blockchain Network

Coinbase · Remote
Direct applyGolangKafkaRedisMongoDB
$186k–$219k 20 days ago View →

Senior Solutions Architect, Tokenisation

Chainlink Labs · Remote
SolidityRustMOVE
$111k–$273k 21 days ago View →

Earn Operations Specialist (Onchain Direction)

Binance · Remote
on-chain DeFi productsLendingStakingLP
$52k–$88k 29 days ago View →

Staff Frontend Engineer / Senior Backend Engineer

Douro Labs / Zerion · Remote
Direct applyTypeScriptReactGoDocker
$120k–$200k 1 month ago View →

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Mobile Trading

OKX · Hybrid
Direct applySwiftKotlinReact Native
$224k–$322k 1 month ago View →

Senior Software Engineer, Data Products

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

Head of Institutions

Uniswap · Remote
business developmentstrategic partnershipssalesstrategy
$200k–$300k 1 month ago View →

Senior Software Engineer, Protocol (Rust) & Staff Smart Contract Engineer

OP Labs & Aave Labs · Remote
Direct applyRustSolidityEthereumEVM
$130k–$190k 1 month ago View →

Senior Backend Engineer

Uniswap Labs · Hybrid
Direct apply
$180k–$226k 1 month ago View →

Senior Product Manager, Trading

0x · Remote
APIB2Bdata analysisDeFi
$150k–$225k 1 month ago View →

Senior Application Security Engineer

Consensys · Remote
Direct applyJavaScriptNode.jsReactReact Native
$130k–$218k 1 month ago View →

Senior Backend Engineer / Senior QA Engineer / SDET

Zerion / Trust Wallet · Remote
Direct applyGoDockerK8sPostgreSQL
$80k–$160k 1 month ago View →

Crypto Community Manager

Stronghold · Remote
$100k–$165k 1 month ago View →

Front Line Support Engineer - Fireblocks

Fireblocks · Remote
customer supportSaaStroubleshootingcommunication
$90k–$95k 1 month ago View →

Engineer

Soter Labs · Remote
Direct applySolidityFoundryHardhatTypeScript
$120k–$200k 1 month ago View →

Engineer

Soter Labs · Remote
SolidityFoundryHardhatTypeScript
$120k–$200k 1 month ago View →

Senior Data Scientist

Phantom · Remote
SQLRPython
$185k–$225k 2 months ago View →

Product Engineer / Backend Staff Engineer

Somnia / Koinly · Remote
Direct applyJavaScriptTypeScriptReactNext.js
$80k–$140k 2 months ago View →

Group Product Manager, Compliance Agent Experience

Coinbase · Remote
AIProduct ManagementFintechCompliance
$244k–$287k 3 months ago View →

Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Senior LLM Systems Engineer

Somnia / Risk Labs · Remote
TerraformPulumiDockerK8s
$100k–$200k 3 months ago View →

Content Creator

Kakao Ventures · Remote
Direct apply
$78k–$94k 3 months 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.