Staff Backend Engineer
Daylight helps users discover onchain activities like mints, airdrops, and quests, building a transaction engine for crypto.
Funding history
About Daylight
Daylight is building a transaction engine for the crypto space with a mission to drive 5% of all onchain GDP. The platform allows projects to submit mints, airdrops, and quests to reach audiences within the applications they use daily, including Zerion, MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, and OKX. To operate its service, Daylight collects personal data from its digital properties and third-party sources like public blockchains. This information is used for service delivery, business operations, R&D, marketing, and compliance. The service is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs serving high request volumes with low latency. Optimize Postgres queries, profile and trace code paths, operate highly available AWS infrastructure, collaborate with product, and build features including feeds, discovery, trading metrics, trade comments, and protocol indexers.
Requirements
- Deep experience with Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience with Postgres and query optimization
- Experience with Redis
- Experience operating services on AWS
- Experience designing and building programmatic APIs and REST services
- 5+ years at tech startups with large-scale user traffic
- Experience maintaining highly available infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Build clean, maintainable, and well-tested backend code
- Design backend REST APIs for usability and scale
- Collaborate with product to define, prioritize, and build features
- Optimize Postgres queries and database performance
- Profile and trace code paths to identify and remove bottlenecks
- Operate and optimize AWS infrastructure for high availability
- Serve high-throughput, low-latency APIs summarizing onchain and offchain data
Benefits
- Competitive pay and generous equity
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible time off
Hiring Process
Apply by emailing Kyle or sending him a Twitter DM with relevant links and why you are a good fit. If selected, the process includes a 30-minute introductory call with Kyle, a 30-minute technical call with Morley, and a code sample, which may be Git commits, a two-hour take-home exercise, or a multi-day paid contract project.