In 2025, VP Team placed a Core Blockchain Engineer for a Dubai fintech scaleup — one of the highest-salary placements in our portfolio at $12,000/month gross. The role sat at the technical heart of the client's DeFi infrastructure, requiring 7+ years of blockchain engineering experience and the ability to work directly with the CTO on mission-critical systems.
Search Overview
The Challenge
The market for senior blockchain engineers with EVM expertise, Solidity smart contract audit experience, and event-driven architecture (Kafka/NestJS) skills is extremely thin. Only 16% of candidates we reached were open to exploring a new role. Additionally, The client required a strong cultural fit: execution-focused, zero-conflict, low-ego — criteria that required deep candidate assessment beyond technical skills.
What VP Team Did
We ran a targeted global headhunting campaign in blockchain engineering communities, focusing on candidates with production-grade DeFi experience and proven security mindset. Cultural alignment was assessed through structured interviews before any technical evaluation.
Result
A Core Blockchain Engineer was placed in 45 days at $12,000/month — ready to own the client's on-chain infrastructure working remotely in EU timezone with periodic business trips to Dubai.
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