How to know you’re ready for a crypto company, not another course? You’re probably closer than you think if:
– You’ve built at least one non-trivial REST API yourself and can run it in Docker.
– Logs, env vars, DB migrations, basic monitoring - not magic, just tools you’ve already touched.
– You’ve shipped a feature end-to-end and fixed something you broke instead of starting a new project.
– You’ve had code review on your work and survived without a meltdown.
– You can commit to 3–4 months of steady grind, not “coding when inspired”.
At that point the bottleneck isn’t knowledge, it’s avoiding situations where your code actually matters.
If you tick ~70% of this, another generic backend course won’t change much. You don’t need more videos, you need context: real money flows, real users, real infra.
If you’re into exchanges and crypto infra - balances, orders, high-load APIs - and you’re based in Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic or Slovakia, one concrete option is the WhiteBIT Global Talent Program - a backend training track designed first and foremost for Ukrainian developers.
It’s a free 4-month online backend program for Junior+ devs with a pet project and B1+ English: two tracks (PHP and Go), evening live sessions, homework with engineer code review, and work around real exchange systems.
If that sounds like your lane, skip the next course and apply - let 4 months of real backend work decide if you’re ready.
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