Work with us

Why Cryptolut

We are an independent newsroom covering crypto with the seriousness it has earned and the scepticism it deserves. We do not run sponsored posts dressed as news, we do not chase token-listing affiliate revenue, and we do not let founders pre-read articles. That independence is the non-negotiable: it is also why our reporting has the standing it does with readers who have something at stake.

The team is small and remote. We hire full-time editorial and engineering staff in the timezones where the news happens — EMEA, APAC, and the Americas — and we run the desk on a follow-the-sun model so no shift carries the whole load. Most colleagues have come from a national newsroom or a serious financial publication; some have come from engineering and learned the craft inside Cryptolut. Both paths are welcome.

We pay competitively, weighted to the market for the role rather than the postcode of the candidate. We invest in the tools the team uses every day, including the CMS and the aggregation pipeline you will read about elsewhere on this site. We expect strong work, we are honest about what we get wrong, and we tell candidates the truth about a job before they accept it.

Open positions

• Senior Markets Reporter

  Newsroom

  Remote · EMEA timezone

  Lead our coverage of trading flows, ETFs, derivatives, and the institutional side of the market. You should be able to break a story, write a clean lede under deadline, and explain a basis trade to a generalist reader without losing the trader.

  Apply by email

• DeFi Correspondent

  Newsroom

  Remote

  Cover protocols, governance, and on-chain incidents end-to-end: from the contract diff to the human consequences. Comfort with Solidity or Move is helpful but not required; intellectual honesty about what is and is not happening on-chain is.

  Apply by email

• Junior Editor / News Desk

  Newsroom

  Remote · APAC timezone

  Run the APAC news desk during your shift. Triage incoming wires, edit aggregated items, surface stories that deserve original reporting, and keep the homepage current. A great fit for someone two to three years into a journalism career who wants editorial responsibility quickly.

  Apply by email

• Multimedia Producer / Video

  Newsroom

  Remote · Americas

  Produce short-form explainers and incident recap videos that complement our written coverage. Strong shooting and editing skills, an opinion about pacing, and a pragmatic sense of what video can add to a market story that a 600-word piece cannot.

  Apply by email

• Full-Stack Engineer (Newsroom Tools)

  Engineering

  Remote

  Build and maintain the CMS, the aggregation pipeline, the public API, and the editorial dashboards. Next.js, TypeScript, SQL, and a healthy suspicion of frameworks that promise too much. You will work closely with editors and ship to production daily.

  Apply by email

What we offer

• Compensation anchored to the role. Salary bands are calibrated to the global market for the function rather than the cost of living in your city. We share the band before the first conversation.
• Annual equipment stipend of US$2,000, plus a workspace allowance for the desk, chair, lighting, and audio you need to be productive at home.
• Learning budget of US$1,500 a year for books, conferences, and courses, with scheduling support for the days the team takes off to use it.
• Paid time off: 25 days plus public holidays, plus a closed week between Christmas and New Year. Sabbatical of one paid month after every four years.
• Health and pension contributions appropriate to your country, including 401(k) matching in the U.S. and equivalent retirement contributions elsewhere where we are an employer of record.
• Two annual meet-ups— one editorial offsite, one whole-team week — for which travel and accommodation are covered.

How we hire

1. Screen. A short call (about 25 minutes) with a hiring editor or engineering lead to confirm the role is a fit on both sides and to talk through your background. We send the salary band before this call.
2. Editing test or technical exercise. A take-home with a clear scope and a deadline you choose. For editorial roles this is typically a copy edit of a 600-word draft plus a 200-word headline-and-dek exercise; for engineering roles a small implementation task close to real work. Maximum two hours; we mean it.
3. Conversations. Two or three discussions with the people you would work with: a colleague at your level, the editor or engineering manager you would report to, and a peer from another team. We discuss your work, our work, and the trade-offs both involve.
4. Offer. A written offer with the salary, equipment stipend, leave, and start date, plus references collected with your permission. We keep the gap between the final conversation and the offer to under a week.

We do not run trick interviews or whiteboard puzzles. We do not ask you to produce free content under the cover of a “trial article”. We pay for any task that takes more than two hours of your time. If we decide not to move forward we say so and we say why.

Open application

No role here that fits, but you think we should hear from you anyway? Send the form below and we will read it. Responses to open applications go out monthly.

Questions

If you have a question about a role, or about working at Cryptolut more generally, write to careers@cryptolut.com. We answer every message we receive, even if it is to say that the role is no longer open.