JobStash is a free job aggregator specifically designed for the rapidly evolving crypto space......

Our platform is fully independent, bootstrapped, and supports open-source DeFi protocols, networks, and other off-chain infrastructures in need of technical staff.

Project Purpose

Our objective is to continually publish technical jobs for reputable noncorporate decentralized on-chain and off-chain organizations without any gatekeeping between candidates and organizations. We provide tools and information for both candidates and employers to optimally identify suitable opportunities, contributing to the growth of the crypto ecosystem. The core focus of the project is on data collection, structuring of data, enrichment, and correlation between market data and job data. We intend to present projects and organizations in a complete, permanent and authoritative way by showing critical metrics such as TVLs, Hacks, Raises, Usage stats, and more. We will of course, allow protocol members to join the platform for free and redact inaccuracies and enrich the data set with their own knowledge. In the short term we will launch a simple presentation of job opportunities enriched with some data. In the medium term we will add tools for developers to easy-apply to jobs in an AI enhanced way, and allow organizations to find relevant and available developers in a rapid and efficient way. These developers are highly sought after in the ultra-competitive league of skilled developers. In the long term, we aim to providing this data to the ecosystem via an open API, which then allows other builders to compose solutions leveraging our data silos.

Our unfair advantage

Simply put: this is not your average job board. Our platform is fully automated and ingests data from APIs exposing job listings and quite frankly any means possible. We solve the two sided market bootstrapping problem by having a fully automated platform which requires no manual input from organizations to list their jobs, and which allows consenting developers to opt in and have their opensource public contributions analyzed and ranked to solve issues which commonly plague sourcing departments at organizations.

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Problems We Are Addressing

• Fragmented job market due to misaligned monetary incentives for publishing job ads, similar to liquidity fragmentation across various L1s/L2s.
• External recruitment agencies not acting in the best interest of candidates or organizations, leading to suboptimal matchmaking.
• Limited access to detailed information about crypto job opportunities due to information gatekeeping.
• Difficulty in identifying the most relevant and high-potential job openings in a rapidly evolving space.

Solutions We Are Proposing

• A free, fully automated and unbiased platform that aggregates job listings from reputable crypto organizations.
• Innovative condensation of job ads into information-dense, optimally formatted job-ads.
• Building tools for both job takers and job offerers to streamline their processes
• Providing detailed data about job opportunities to individual candidates.
• Offering analytics and research to gain insights into the general crypto job market.

Value

Our platform aims to place the right people in the right job as efficiently as possible by providing the best and most up-to-date information. This enables all parties to independently make informed decisions throughout the job application process, ultimately contributing to the growth and success of the entire crypto ecosystem.

Deliverables

• Launch and continuously improve our Web UI.
• Integrate more job sources and onboard additional organizations and projects.
• Integrate additional sources of data for better understanding of evaluated opportunities.
• Conduct in-house computations of data about protocols based on onchain data.

Team Information

Our diverse, global team consists of four full-time members and two part-time contributors (5 devs and 1 designer), with plans to expand soon. DuckDegen, an engineer passionate about building projects benefiting makers and builders, founded the project in September 2022.

Achievements

• Launched a POC on Telegram in March 2023 (Twitter announcement)
• Two live Telegram channels: technical jobs, nontechnical jobs with ±500 subscribers
• Ingested data for over 2000 job posts
• Produced research about the general crypto job market: Twitter post
• Example of our telegram job-ad format:

Use of Funds

Funds received will cover infrastructure bills and support our engineers in working full-time without external influences. Our costs include GitHub, OpenAI, Figma, hosting, and various software vendor licenses (±500 USD/mo). We aim to compensate our contributors fairly, considering living costs in their regions across Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa.