Smart contract developers write and audit the code that holds funds on-chain, where a single mistake is unrecoverable and public. That risk profile explains both the pay and the hiring approach: employers care about audited work, competition results and public repositories far more than degrees. Indian openings are few — measured in dozens at any moment rather than hundreds — and concentrated in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Mumbai, with remote work for overseas protocols making up a meaningful share.