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

Events Marketing Manager

MoonPay · Remote
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$100k–$140k 4 months ago View →

Senior People Operations Specialist / Affiliate Business Development Manager

LI.FI / OKX · Remote
Direct applyPeople OperationsHRSaaSfintech
$60k–$90k 4 months ago View →

Capital Markets Lead

Stellar Development Foundation · Hybrid
Blockchain TechnologyRisk ManagementOn-chain DataEconomic Modeling
$160k–$240k 4 months ago View →

Security Engineer, Product Security

Chainlink Labs · Remote
GoRustUnixSolidity
$106k–$260k 4 months ago View →

Senior Software Engineer, Data Products

Chainlink Labs · Remote
GolangSolidityTypeScriptRust
$129k–$304k 4 months ago View →

Senior Legal Counsel

Lido · Remote
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$148k–$158k 4 months ago View →

Quantitative Trader (Associate/VP) - Onchain Trading

Galaxy Digital · Remote
Direct applyPythonDeFialgorithmic tradingdata analysis
$150k–$200k 4 months ago View →

Growth Lead

Monorail · Remote
$96k–$144k 4 months ago View →

Capital Markets Lead

Stellar Development Foundation · Remote
blockchainDeFifinancial modelingrisk management
$160k–$240k 4 months ago View →

Senior LLM Systems Engineer

Risk Labs · Remote
PythonTypeScriptPostgresGCP
$100k–$200k 4 months ago View →

Account Executive, Crypto Native

Blockdaemon · Remote
$125k–$165k 4 months ago View →

Senior Blockchain/Web3 Engineer

Rather Labs · Remote
Soliditysmart contractsEVMJavaScript
$180k–$180k 4 months ago View →

Staff/Senior Security Engineer - DeFi

Ethena Labs · Remote
SolidityEVMGnosis SafeCoinbase Prime
$112k–$188k 4 months ago View →

Senior Analytics Engineer

Alpaca · Remote
Direct applySQLDBTPythonPostgres
$117k–$127k 4 months ago View →

Head of OTC Sales / Private Investment Sales Director

Ayni Gold · Remote
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$50k–$250k 4 months ago View →

Head of OTC Sales / Private Investment Sales Director

Ayni Gold · Remote
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$50k–$250k 4 months ago View →

Senior Web Developer Contractor

OpenZeppelin · Remote
Direct applyTypeScriptReactNext.jsSanity
$72k–$80k 4 months ago View →

Senior Data Engineer / Android Engineer

Solana Foundation / Blue Cube Services · Remote
SparkIcebergPolarsClickHouse
$35k–$140k 4 months ago View →

Senior Backend Engineer / Software Engineer, Stablecoin

LI.FI / Figure · Remote
Direct applyTypeScriptNode.jsMongoDBRedis
$103k–$154k 4 months ago View →

Senior Data Analyst, Servicing

Figure · Remote
Direct applySQLBigQueryTableauPython
$110k–$150k 5 months ago View →

Technical Project Manager

Trojan Trading · Remote
CI/CDProject CoordinationDelivery ManagementSolana
$100k–$350k 5 months ago View →

Backend Engineer

Trojan Trading · Remote
TypeScriptNode.jsBun.jsPostgres
$150k–$350k 5 months ago View →

Blockchain Engineer

Keras Labs · Remote
SolidityRustERC20BEP20
$180k–$180k 5 months ago View →

BD Sales Lead

SideShift.ai · Remote
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$40k–$60k 5 months ago View →

Security Engineer

Offchain Labs (Arbitrum) · Remote
AWSKubernetessecurity frameworksthreat modeling
$95k–$125k 5 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.