Roles inside the DeFi protocols, DAOs and labs building decentralised lending, trading, derivatives and stablecoin rails.
DeFi is the highest-velocity slice of crypto hiring: protocols and labs ship code in public, governance is on-chain, and most teams operate as fully distributed organisations. FinJobsly tracks listings from Uniswap, Aave, Curve, Lido, MakerDAO, Compound, Synthetix, dYdX, Pendle, EigenLayer and many more, alongside the labs and core teams that contribute to them.
Engineering postings here lean heavily toward Solidity, Rust and Move, but protocol research, mechanism-design, applied-cryptography and security-engineering roles are increasingly common. On the non-engineering side, governance facilitators, treasury managers, BD leads and operations specialists keep showing up — DAOs need real institutional plumbing once TVL crosses serious thresholds.
Compensation in DeFi is genuinely different from the rest of the market: most roles pay in stablecoins plus tokens, often with vesting schedules tied to protocol performance. Senior protocol engineers and security leads regularly clear comp ranges that rival top-tier hedge funds. Where employers publish numbers we surface them on the card; where they don't we mark it explicitly so you can negotiate from a real baseline.
Use the filters to focus on remote vs in-office labs, seniority, and contract type (DAO contributor, lab full-time, foundation grant). Every apply link goes directly to the protocol's careers page, governance forum thread or grants programme, never to a generic aggregator.
Listings flag stablecoin, equity and token components so on-paper offers are easy to compare.
Each role is tagged as DAO contributor, lab full-time or grant-funded so you know the structure.
Dedicated coverage of audits, mechanism-design, MEV and applied cryptography roles.
