Looking for Guidance in My Blockchain Journey --- How Do I Get My First Full-Time Blockchain Developer Role?

You’ve already done the hardest part — staying consistent for 1.5 years, exploring Solidity, front-end integration, and tooling without a CS background. That’s a big signal of discipline, and honestly, it matters a lot more in Web3 than your degree. 

At this point, your problem isn’t “lack of skills.” It’s that your skills aren’t yet packaged in a way that shows real-world engineering depth — the kind founders look for when hiring a junior blockchain developer. Instead of adding new tools, I’d focus on building 2–3 small protocol-style projects where you really think through the design: a mini lending pool, a staking module, a simple AMM, or anything with accounting logic. What impresses people the most isn’t the contract itself — it’s how you test it, debug it, and justify your decisions. 

A few solid Foundry tests and a clear explanation of why a thing broke teach you more than weeks of tutorials. If you want to break into the ecosystem, contributing to smaller parts of libraries (Wagmi, Viem, Safe, Foundry docs, public-good repos) helps far more than cold DMs. Even small PRs — like improving examples or fixing edge-case tests — put you in front of maintainers who often know teams hiring juniors. 

And don’t underestimate sharing your learnings in public. Short breakdowns of bugs, test failures, gas optimizations, or things that “finally clicked” make you look like someone who actively thinks like an engineer. That’s how visibility grows.

If you’re comfortable, share your GitHub here. Not for judgment — but because it’s much easier to suggest the next steps when we can see what you’ve actually built. Sometimes even small improvements in structure or test depth make a huge difference in how your profile comes across. 

You’re on the right path — now it’s about turning your learning into clear proof that you can ship and reason about real smart contracts.

Let me add another angle here, because I was in a similar place not too long ago.

When I was trying to move from “I’ve learned a lot” → “I’m actually job-ready,” what helped me most wasn’t adding new tools… it was learning how to show my work in a way that made sense to someone reviewing it. Juniors often underestimate how much clarity matters. A repo that’s easy to read, with tests that explain edge cases, and small notes on why you made certain decisions — that alone makes you look far more experienced.

Another thing you might want to think about is picking one area and going a bit deeper. I spread myself too thin in the beginning — AMMs, staking, bridges, oracles… everything looked interesting. But once I picked one vertical and started understanding the patterns behind it, my progress and confidence jumped a lot. Teams like juniors who show depth in at least one domain, even if it’s a small one.

What was mentioned above about “proof over tools” is spot on. But I’ll add: don’t stress if your GitHub isn’t perfect yet. Most juniors’ profiles look messy in the early stage. What matters is that you start shaping it in the direction of reasoning + testing + clarity. Small improvements compound fast.

If you do decide to share a repo here, people can give very practical feedback — not judgment, just honest pointers. Sometimes one or two structural changes make a huge difference in how your work comes across.