If you are interested in free-thinking, open-minded workplaces solving very interesting problems, go to coingecko.com and scan down the lists of major coins and exchanges. There is an enormous need for engineers and the pay is very high for remote work.

In terms of startups, basically every engineer I know who stuck with crypto through the post-2017 bear market made a huge amount of money as their tokens appreciated. One benefit of working in crypto is you are liquid very quickly - you might get equity, but you almost always get tokens.

Regardless of what the HN know-it-all crypto-haters say, in 2021 you are far more likely to make appreciable wealth in crypto as an individual contributor than you will in your average SaaS (excluding founders and high-level management).

Of course, I think the problems being solved in decentralized platforms are extremely interesting compared to adtech or whatever AI-nonsense. But even barring the extremely interesting work, the renumeration, ethos, and company structure are very amenable to software engineers.