A quiet workspace with a laptop open to a terminal, ceramic mug, and notebook with handwritten notes
Vol. 47 · Week of Feb 24, 2026

The best Web3 roles,
before everyone else
finds them.

A weekly dispatch for Solidity devs, DeFi designers, and community leads — curated by people who actually ship on-chain. No scrapers. No noise.

Read This Week's IssueFree to read · No account needed
6,200+
Subscribers
47
Issues shipped
340+
Roles placed
Weekly
Every Monday
Scroll
Issue No. 47

This week's dispatch

Published Monday, February 24, 2026 · 6 roles · 3 grant windows

View full archive
SignalISSUE 47
6 roles · 3 grants

This week: ZK hiring is back after a quiet January — Scroll and a stealth L2 are both pulling for Rust/circuit engineers. Aave's new risk team has two Solidity slots that weren't posted publicly until now. And the Optimism Foundation just opened a Grants Director role that's been filled internally three times and keeps turning over.

RolesSalary
NewSenior Solidity EngineerDeFi
Aave Labs·Ethereum·Full-time · Remote
$180–220k
/ yr
Product Designer — Wallet UXDesign
Phantom·Solana·Full-time · SF preferred
$140–165k
/ yr
NewGrants Program DirectorGrants
Optimism Foundation·L2·Full-time · Remote
$130–160k
/ yr
Protocol Engineer — ZK CircuitsZK
Scroll·zkEVM·Full-time · Remote
$160–200k
/ yr
Community & Ecosystem Lead
Uniswap Labs·Multi-chain·Full-time · NYC preferred
$100–130k
/ yr
NewRust Developer — Core Protocol
Helius·Solana·Full-time · Remote
$170–210k
/ yr
Grant Windows Open Now
Ethereum Foundation
Up to $50k
L2 toolingCloses Mar 7
Solana Foundation
Up to $25k
Developer UXCloses Mar 14
Arbitrum DAO
Up to $100k
DeFi protocolsCloses Mar 21
Subscribers received this at 07:00 UTC MondayRead full issue →
Read This Week's Issueor scroll to see who reads Signal
Reader Stories

People who found their
next chapter here

Priya Nambiar, Solidity engineer working at a desk with multiple monitors showing code
Issue 31
Reader Spotlight
"I'd been lurking on job boards for three weeks. Signal had the Morpho role on a Tuesday. I applied Wednesday. I was onboarded before it was ever posted publicly."
Portrait of Priya Nambiar
Priya Nambiar
Solidity Engineer · Morpho Labs
Role found through Signal
Junior Protocol Engineer — Lending Markets
Ethereum$145k

Every role above was in the newsletter before it appeared on LinkedIn, Greenhouse, or any job board.

Read This Week's Issue
Marcus Webb, protocol lead reviewing design mockups on a large monitor in a modern office
Issue 38
Reader Spotlight
"I came from TradFi UX. Nobody in DeFi was looking at my portfolio seriously. Signal had a role that specifically asked for fintech-to-DeFi designers. That's a niche nobody else was surfacing."
Portrait of Marcus Webb
Marcus Webb
Protocol Lead · Drift Protocol
Role found through Signal
Senior Product Designer — Perpetuals
Solana$158k

Every role above was in the newsletter before it appeared on LinkedIn, Greenhouse, or any job board.

Read This Week's Issue
Adaeze Okonkwo, grants program director smiling in a well-lit office environment
Issue 44
Reader Spotlight
"After getting rugged by two DAOs in a row, I needed something with actual compensation structure. Signal listed the Arbitrum Grants Director role with full salary transparency. That signal — no pun intended — told me this was different."
Portrait of Adaeze Okonkwo
Adaeze Okonkwo
Grants Program Director · Arbitrum Foundation
Role found through Signal
Grants Program Director — DeFi Track
Arbitrum$155k
The Process

Curation is a
deliberate act

We review roughly 40 roles each week. Six make it in. Here's the filter.

1
1

We source before the feeds do

Protocol hiring managers, DAO contributors, and founders share roles directly with Signal — often before they post anywhere else. We have conversations, not scraper bots.

Avg. 4.2 days before public posting

2
2

Every listing is reviewed

No ghost listings. No "competitive salary." Every role in Signal includes a salary range, chain context, team size, and a direct application path — or it doesn't get in.

~40 roles reviewed weekly · ~6 published

3
3

Delivered Monday morning

One email, every Monday at 07:00 UTC. Roles, grant windows, and a brief editorial note on what's moving in the hiring market. Nothing else. No upsells, no sponsored content.

Unsubscribe in one click, any time

~40
Roles reviewed weekly
~6
Published per issue
4.2 days
Before public posting
0
Sponsored listings, ever

The roles worth having
don't wait for you.

Join 6,200 Solidity engineers, DeFi designers, and protocol leads who get Signal every Monday morning. Free. No sponsors. No noise.

One email per week. Unsubscribe any time. No sponsored content, ever.

6,200+
Subscribers
4.8★
Avg. reader rating
47%
Open rate
0
Sponsored posts

"We write Signal the way we wish someone had written it for us when we were between contracts." — The Editors