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.

124open jobs
$102k–$178ktypical salary
89companies hiring
5added this week
100%remote

Open DeFi roles

124 jobs

Senior Legal Counsel

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

Quantitative Trader (Associate/VP) - Onchain Trading

Galaxy Digital · Remote
PythonDeFialgorithmic tradingdata analysis
$150k–$200k 1 month ago View →

Growth Lead

Monorail · Remote
$96k–$144k 1 month ago View →

Capital Markets Lead

Stellar Development Foundation · Remote
blockchainDeFifinancial modelingrisk management
$160k–$240k 1 month ago View →

Senior LLM Systems Engineer

Risk Labs · Remote
PythonTypeScriptPostgresGCP
$100k–$200k 1 month ago View →

Account Executive, Crypto Native

Blockdaemon · Remote
$125k–$165k 1 month ago View →

Senior Blockchain/Web3 Engineer

Rather Labs · Remote
Soliditysmart contractsEVMJavaScript
$180k–$180k 1 month ago View →

Staff/Senior Security Engineer - DeFi

Ethena Labs · Remote
SolidityEVMGnosis SafeCoinbase Prime
$112k–$188k 1 month ago View →

Senior Analytics Engineer

Alpaca · Remote
SQLDBTPythonPostgres
$117k–$127k 1 month ago View →

Head of OTC Sales / Private Investment Sales Director

Ayni Gold · Remote
$50k–$250k 1 month ago View →

Head of OTC Sales / Private Investment Sales Director

Ayni Gold · Remote
$50k–$250k 1 month ago View →

Senior Web Developer Contractor

OpenZeppelin · Remote
TypeScriptReactNext.jsSanity
$72k–$80k 1 month ago View →

Senior Data Engineer / Android Engineer

Solana Foundation / Blue Cube Services · Remote
SparkIcebergPolarsClickHouse
$35k–$140k 1 month ago View →

Senior Backend Engineer / Software Engineer, Stablecoin

LI.FI / Figure · Remote
TypeScriptNode.jsMongoDBRedis
$103k–$154k 1 month ago View →

Senior Data Analyst, Servicing

Figure · Remote
SQLBigQueryTableauPython
$110k–$150k 1 month ago View →

Technical Project Manager

Trojan Trading · Remote
CI/CDProject CoordinationDelivery ManagementSolana
$100k–$350k 1 month ago View →

Backend Engineer

Trojan Trading · Remote
TypeScriptNode.jsBun.jsPostgres
$150k–$350k 1 month ago View →

Blockchain Engineer

Keras Labs · Remote
SolidityRustERC20BEP20
$180k–$180k 1 month ago View →

BD Sales Lead

SideShift.ai · Remote
$40k–$60k 1 month ago View →

Security Engineer

Offchain Labs (Arbitrum) · Remote
AWSKubernetessecurity frameworksthreat modeling
$95k–$125k 1 month ago View →

Director of Technical Product Management, Platform Engineering / Senior Frontend Engineer

Ava Labs / Trust Wallet · Remote
ReactReact NativeTypeScript
$60k–$270k 1 month ago View →

Smart Contract Lead

ether.fi · Remote
SolidityEthereumFoundryHardhat
$180k–$260k 1 month ago View →

DeFi Digital Asset Security Specialist

U.S. Bank · Remote
$140k–$240k 1 month ago View →

Principal Engineer - Stablecoin

Bank of America · Remote
$124k–$180k 1 month ago View →

Stablecoin Systems Operator

HAZZA Network · Remote
$150k–$250k 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.