Who’s Hiring in April 2019: Opportunities in Europe
Blockchain Tech Startups Currently Hiring in Europe and worldwide
In April we are focusing on the old continent: Europe currently has better opportunities than the US, especially now that France started offering their fast-track tech visas for non-Europeans who want to participate on the tech innovation out of Europe.
The “talent passport” is available not only for founders, but also for investors or employees. More at lafrenchtech.com.
It is of course not all just roses in France. Startup salaries in Paris are lower than in established hubs like Berlin while the costs of living are higher:
- The average developer salary in Berlin is over €45k per year
- In Paris the same job will earn some €38k per year
- …But according to Numbeo, living in Berlin is 25% cheaper than in Paris.
Fear not though, we are mixing in diverse startup vacancy picks from the whole European area.
Starting your own venture also got easier
Hand in hand with the easing of bureaucracy comes also the increase in available startup funding.
- If building a venture is something you consider, take a look at our list of startup studios in blockchain tech.
- One EU-sponsored venture builder closes its open call at the end of April 2019, offering up to 250k EUR of funding to create an interesting MVP.
Either way, here is your fresh supply of blockchain tech startup job openings in Europe.
As before, down below the same for some bigger and more established crypto companies worldwide.
The New Kids (But Well Funded)
A list of new blockchain tech startups, dApp game developers and any crypto-relevant or privacy-focused startups that could be interesting to work at, if you are the type who likes to be early to parties.
Braincities (FR)
Focus: Braincities is a privately funded venture that is building a method to identify patterns in heterogeneous data for its use in semantic modeling systems.
Very high-tech, and judging from their Angel List profile they could really use someone to communicate their work better.
Looking for: Marketing experts, writers, evangelists, and a lot of engineers — Braincities are hiring in Paris, several other metropolitan areas of mainland Europe & beyond.
Braincities pay well above average salary, it’s specially a goldmine for developers experienced in distributed architectures.
METR (DE)
Focus: METR Systems are building management tools for the future, which in plain English means they are in IoT. They are based in Berlin and raised money via a powerful combination of VC partnerships and EU funding.
Looking for: Marketers and salesmen — The roles are at the director level and call for good experience.
Fetch.AI (UK)
Focus: Fetch.AI is an artificial intelligence and digital economics company based in Cambridge, UK. They are developing a tokenized transaction ecosystem where value transfer happens with no human intervention. All transactions are done by Autonomous Agents who represent themselves, devices, services or individuals.
Fetch has a ready-to-go proof of work algo invented in-house and is VC funded.
Looking for: Engineers and Researchers — Fetch.AI is looking for a lot of staff in tech and economic research. They need web developers (backend, frontent), devops engineers, blockchain and cryptography specialists but also economists or consultants to research the feasibility of their ideas.
The Ballers
The crypto companies you know the name of, unless you literally live under a rock.
EthFinex
You know it as: The sister project of Bitfinex crypto exchange, running as a trustless exchange dApp on the Ethereum blockchain.
The whole group of Bitfinex-related platforms has been silently stepping up their game all the way through the crypto bear market.
Bitfinex even started organizing interesting events for their traders like the Technical Analysis Day in London in April 2019, they send out quite good crypto news roundups and generally are not talking down to their user base the way some other popular trading platforms do.
Looking for: Backend and Frontend Developers, PR, Marketing — Remote positions calling for some experience.
Kraken
You know it as: One of the oldest crypto exchanges that had major hurdles serving their traders in times of high load but never actually scammed anyone or got hacked.
Looking for: Pretty much anybody, all over the world and remote. There is demand for business strategists, engineers, designers, compliance staff, account managers and customer support.
Kraken is based in San Fran and that’s where they primarily look, but related to their recent ventures there is also need for staff to employ in their new Tokyo base.
For a good bit of the openings they are OK with remote work.
Coinbase
You know it as: The crypto onramp for regular Americans, platforms split between a managed crypto wallet, a basic exchange and a professional trading interface.
Looking for: Pretty much anybody. Coinbase is filling up their several US offices and also locations in London, Dublin and Tokyo. After big layoffs, they are now looking to fill roles ranging from Business Development through Design and Engineering to Legal and Compliance.
Keybase
You know it as: App for personal verification and trusted cloud storage loved by Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin.
It comes with effectively a social network, and reportedly was considered for acquisition by Facebook.
Looking for: Frontend and backend coders, designers — Keybase is hiring coders for their offices in NYC, SF, or Chicago. They do not want to fill the positions remotely, and you will need to demonstrate experience with modern web dev and interest in privacy. This startup is a fast riser, though.
Stellar
You know it as: Cryptocurrency focused on remittances, transaction speed and regulatory compliance with growing environment of dApps and platforms on top of it. Since recently including an IOU stablecoin with full reserves in US-domiciled banks.
Looking for: DevOps, Engineering and Marketing roles. There is a bunch of roles opening in San Francisco, one also in the APAC area (Asia-Pacific).
Originally published at www.thebusinessofcrypto.com.
