Job Hunting 2025
Summer of 2025 and I've been looking for a new gig. After working at Onyx for almost two years, the time was right to move on.
I've decided that crypto is the place to be, especially after the recent developments in the geopolitical landscape. Trump, tariffs, dollar taking a hit, abundant inflation — macro conditions that make a strong case for hard assets and decentralised finance.
The Crypto Job Market in 2025
The crypto job market in 2025 is competitive but active. Demand is highest for quantitative researchers, algorithmic traders, software engineers with low-latency or distributed systems experience, and risk managers. Most hiring is concentrated in a handful of well-capitalised firms: proprietary trading desks, market makers, and infrastructure providers building the rails for on-chain finance.
Salaries are generally above traditional finance equivalents, though the range is wide. Equity and token packages vary enormously and deserve scrutiny.
Companies I Encountered
Below is an alphabetical list of crypto companies I came across during my job hunting in 2025. I did not apply to all of them — in fact very few of them — but I encountered them through recruiters, referrals, or research.
- Aneralabs — early-stage blockchain infrastructure
- Backpack — regulated crypto exchange
- Blockchain.com — one of the oldest consumer-facing crypto wallets and exchange platforms
- Caladan — digital asset trading firm
- Flow Traders — leading global ETP market maker expanding into digital assets
- Flowdesk — crypto market-making and liquidity services
- Gattaca — high-frequency trading firm operating in crypto markets
- GSR — algorithmic crypto trading and market making
- Kappa lab — quantitative crypto trading
- Keyrock — algorithmic market maker for digital assets
- lo.tech — low-latency trading technology for crypto
- Pinely — quantitative trading firm
- Pulsar — crypto market making and trading
- Selini Capital — volatility-focused crypto trading firm
- Wintermute — one of the largest algorithmic crypto market makers globally
Advice on Working with Recruiters
It is difficult to keep recruiters at bay — they want to fill positions, which is understandable. However, their incentives are not always aligned with yours.
When talking to them, keep the following in mind:
- Apply only to roles that genuinely fit your skills and interests, not everything they pitch.
- Research the firm independently before any screening call; recruiters often have limited technical knowledge of what the role actually involves.
- Clarify compensation structure early: base, bonus, token/equity vesting, and cliff periods all matter.
- Ask about team size, tech stack, and trading strategy, vague answers are a signal.