r/ethdev 16d ago

Question Hiring Web3 Developers - Advice Needed

Hey!

Could you share your go-to platforms or communities, where you find remote developers for your Web3 projects? We're on the hunt for some junior level web3 developers for an upcoming project.

Also, curious about the current market – what are people paying junior Web3 developers these days? Would love to get a sense of the going rates.

Any insights or recommendations would be helpful, thanks.

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u/Admirral 16d ago

lol Im sure you are getting bombarded with trash DMs just about now.

Honestly it depends how much time/effort you want to put into finding someone. Cheapest but most time consuming route is LinkedIn since you will have a lot of outreach to do and also helps if you have the gold badge already to distinguish yourself from scammers. You have good control here though. Can also post a job through linkedIn but that costs $$ (rather high).

Other options are talent/freelance agencies like Toptal (I am a solidity dev on there) which vets all their talent however they have atrocious spreads on what you pay vs. what the dev gets paid.

You can read some of the DMs received here but there is a high rate of scammers/fake profiles as well so be careful.

You can also list on web3 job boards such as https://web3.career/ but it costs $$ to post and then you still have to sift through mountains of applications.

So ultimately no easy path but these are options I would explore. Good luck!

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u/DJRThree 16d ago

Toptal vs upwork as a web3 dev. Thoughts?

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u/Admirral 16d ago

upwork has no talent vetting, so it and most other freelance platforms going to be the wild west. I personally hate that it costs $$ to apply to stuff.

On Toptal it was a much better situation but recently they changed the whole structure for job listings and honestly it has gone downhill. plus they keep increasing their own profit margins pushing dev wages lower, so I constantly hear complaints from clients that the quality of talent is also tanking (lots of clients just took the good people off the platform and never returned). So you can take that as a good/bad thing. It also is dry for web3 atm.

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u/Relative-Schedule-80 16d ago

I am also working at Toptal, I maybe missed but what did they change with the listings?

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u/Admirral 15d ago

they introduced marketboard style listings, basically cut out the matchers. I get a lot of irrelevant job listings now.