Blockchain jobs: salary expectations and first steps to finding your dream job

This week we continue to discuss the labor market in the blockchain industry. Though blockchain is a hot trend at the moment and more and more people want to get involved in the area, let’s found out if blockchain jobs are really well paid. Maybe the hype is not worth your efforts.

First of all, one should chose between a job in a startup with freedom to create, co-found and acquire equity and a less dynamic strictly regulated job in large private sector or government enterprises. Second,  one should expect startups to pay no higher than $55-80k to young starters with little experience in the area. Third, experienced developers are more likely to receive job offers in big commercial organizations. They can definitely expect a salary no less than $135K in the U.S. Here we must note that salary rates differ depending on the country. In Russia for example, specialists on the mentioned positions will get three times less.

Before going the traditional way and uploading your CV on the headhunting sites we recommend to start with research and networking. Here are three tips that will help you to get the right job in blockchain:

1. Create a list of companies that you want to work with in the first place. Write a motivation letter that will tell what value you can bring to the company.
2. Try getting into contact with the right people. Start with attending blockchain meetups and conferences. Create a network that might help you to know who is hiring right now.
3. Contribute code to blockchain projects on GitHub. Open source code to the bitcoin core network may just bring the right people to your door.

For more keep track of our blog, we publish the hottest blockchain jobs in the industry.

Job: Platform Developer

Company: Blockchain

Country: London, UK

Salary: Competitive

Responsibilities: Experience working with Java and relational databases in an enterprise environment, including experience with large databases of complex financial format type. Experience using custom framework and horizontal database partitioning. Understanding of algorithms, object oriented analysis, data structures, databases and large-scale websites.

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Job: Managing Director

Company: CoinBase

Country: NY, U.S.

Salary: N/A

Responsibilities: Build a cross functional team that manages payment operations, risk management, block trading, institutional sales, and customer support for GDAX. Establish, measure, and manage an institutional exchange that operates 24/7/365. Stand up an office and establish a team culture that maintains the Coinbase Mission and Core Values.

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Job: Blockchain Engineer

Company: Ford Motor Company

Country: Dearborn, U.S.

Salary: N/A

Responsibilities: We are looking for a strategic thinker and researcher to lead and pioneer work in the branch of Blockchain technology applied to mobility use cases that would help deliver superior user experiences for our customers in the further. You will have the opportunity to work in a highly dynamic environment that embraces a start-up mindset mode and encourages transformational thinking.

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Job: COO of a blockchain startup

Company: Blockwise

Country: London, U.K.

Salary: N/A

Responsibilities: We are looking for a co-founder with the role of COO and potentially CEO, who will be able to drive the business, build the team and the product while Blockwise will fully execute the development of it. Previous start-up experience is a plus as well as information security, biometry, identity management or cryptography in a background.

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Job: Decentralized Systems Engineer

Company: BigchainDB

Country: Berlin, Germany

Salary: 40-70 K

Responsibilities: Design, implement, deploy, benchmark, and maintain decentralized databases and software systems. Co-plan and co-design the product with your team in an agile, open-source development process. We don’t expect applicants to be an expert in everything listed below. The ideal candidate has experience with Python and distributed systems.

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