Crypto / Web3 in IT — global market
Crypto and Web3 engineers write smart contracts, blockchain nodes and indexers, wallets, exchange engines and DeFi protocols — code that often cannot be fixed after deployment, where a bug costs users their funds. Zorky currently tracks 6 578 open tech jobs in Crypto / Web3; the leading countries are the US (53%), the UK (10%), Hong Kong (10%) and Singapore (8%). The most common directions are backend, product management, blockchain and fullstack. Below: the technologies and roles employers in this industry ask for, and what to learn on top of the stack to get hired.
Salary distribution
The distribution uses postings with an explicit salary; there are fewer of them than all postings in the industry.
Hiring geography
The US leads by the number of openings in this industry. Shares count postings with an identified country; remote positions are often open to candidates elsewhere.
Industry tech stack
Postings in this industry most often name Blockchain, DeFi, Web3, Go and Python. The number next to each technology is how many postings mention it.
Who's hired
The industry hires more than developers: the top directions are backend, product management, blockchain and fullstack.
What to know to work in Crypto / Web3
Much of the stack is shared across industries. What sets this one apart is the domain knowledge interviewers expect:
- account vs UTXO models, gas, block finality
- Solidity and the EVM, or Rust for non-EVM chains
- common smart-contract vulnerabilities: reentrancy, overflow, oracle manipulation
- cryptographic primitives: signatures, hashes, key derivation
- how DEXs, lending and staking work at the protocol level