Daylight
Daylight is building a decentralized electric utility. We're building technology that enables homes to generate, store, and share energy with their neighbors, turning passive consumers into active participants in a smarter, more sustainable grid.
Our team brings together energy and crypto veterans who believe in a future where communities power themselves. Backed by a16z, Framework, and other industry-leading investors, we're building the infrastructure to make that vision a reality. Learn more at www.godaylight.com
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About Daylight
Daylight is the decentralized energy company. We're building a protocol that converts distributed solar and storage systems into yield-bearing infrastructure. These assets are deployed behind the meter in American homes and businesses, generating electricity revenues that flow onchain as a single, liquid yield token. Our ambition is to build the economic engine for energy abundance—where capital fuels power, and power fuels everything.
Our team brings together energy and crypto veterans who believe in a future where communities power themselves. Backed by a16z, Framework, and other industry-leading investors, we're building the infrastructure to make that vision a reality. Learn more at www.godaylight.com
The Role
As a Senior Backend Developer at Daylight, you'll play a crucial role in developing our Django APIs and backend services that support our mobile app and partner integrations. You'll build functionality that helps homeowners monitor, control, and optimize their energy usage while participating in our decentralized energy network.
We're an early-stage startup, so this role goes beyond just writing code. You'll have significant input on architecture decisions, user experience, and product direction. As we scale, there will be opportunities to grow into a leadership or management position, mentoring junior developers and shaping our mobile development strategy.
This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about crypto and clean energy, values craftsmanship in their code, and thrives in dynamic startup environments where your work has a direct impact on the product's success and the company's mission.
This role is in-person in our New York City office.
Responsibilities
- GraphQL & REST API Development
- Design and build robust GraphQL queries and mutations that power our mobile app and are tailored for mobile performance
- Architect, develop, and maintain scalable API endpoints that support vendor/partner integrations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship innovative features
- Continuously monitor performance and resolve bottlenecks and bugs across all endpoints
- Champion code quality, automation, and comprehensive testing practices
- CRM & Internal Tools Development
- Leverage and extend Django’s admin interface to build a feature-rich internal CRM and administration portal
- Customize the Django admin site to meet evolving business and workflow needs
- Work with stakeholders to refine internal processes and drive user-friendly administrative solutions
- Technical Architecture & DevOps
- Contribute to architecture planning and drive technical design decisions that ensure scalability and security
- Optimize the application stack for maximum speed and reliability
- Embrace CI/CD methodologies and infrastructure-as-code practices to streamline deployments
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies that enhance our backend ecosystem
What we’re looking for
| Must Haves
- 3+ years of experience developing APIs and backend services
- Strong understanding of API Development and best practices
- Experience with Python, Django, PostgreSQL and Redis
- Proficiency in writing clean, readable, and well-documented code
- Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, and network request handling
- Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git
- Knowledge of backend performance profiling and optimization techniques
- Experience with testing and managing AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing requirements
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
| Nice to Haves
- Experience with Celery, Django admin sites, integrating with smart contracts
- Familiarity with crypto and related infrastructure, specifically EVM
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery processes
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Understanding of energy markets and renewable energy systems
What we offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Opportunity to shape a category-defining product from the ground up
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Wellhub membership
- Monthly wellness stipend
Daylight values diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We're building technology that serves everyone, and we believe diverse perspectives make our team and our product stronger.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Daylight
About Daylight
Daylight is the decentralized energy company. We're building a protocol that converts distributed solar and storage systems into yield-bearing infrastructure. These assets are deployed behind the meter in American homes and businesses, generating electricity revenues that flow onchain as a single, liquid yield token. Our ambition is to build the economic engine for energy abundance—where capital fuels power, and power fuels everything.
Our team brings together energy and crypto veterans who believe in a future where communities power themselves. Backed by a16z, Framework, and other industry-leading investors, we're building the infrastructure to make that vision a reality. Learn more at www.godaylight.com
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer | Blockchain at Daylight, you'll play a crucial role in developing our Django APIs and backend services that support our mobile app and partner integrations as well as designing the interactions with our smart contracts onchain. You'll build functionality that helps homeowners monitor, control, and optimize their energy usage while participating in our decentralized energy network.
We're an early-stage startup, so this role goes beyond just writing code. You'll have significant input on architecture decisions, user experience, and product direction. As we scale, there will be opportunities to grow into a leadership or management position, mentoring junior developers and shaping our backend development strategy and onchain integrations.
This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about crypto and clean energy, values craftsmanship in their code, and thrives in dynamic startup environments where your work has a direct impact on the product's success and the company's mission.
This role is in-person in our New York City office.
Responsibilities
- GraphQL & REST API Development
- Design and build robust GraphQL queries and mutations that power our mobile app and are tailored for mobile performance
- Architect, develop, and maintain scalable API endpoints that support vendor/partner integrations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship innovative features
- Continuously monitor performance and resolve bottlenecks and bugs across all endpoints
- Champion code quality, automation, and comprehensive testing practices
- CRM & Internal Tools Development
- Leverage and extend Django’s admin interface to build a feature-rich internal CRM and administration portal
- Customize the Django admin site to meet evolving business and workflow needs
- Work with stakeholders to refine internal processes and drive user-friendly administrative solutions
- Smart Contract Development
- Design and implement Solidity smart contracts that underpin Daylight's decentralized energy markets
- Develop Daylight's decentralized data storage and validation layer using modern frameworks (e.g. Commonware, Snapchain L3)
- Architect secure oracle flows to feed real-world energy data onchain
- Manage crosschain deployments and integrations for liquidity routing and yield pools using LayerZero, Wormhole, or similar technologies
- Technical Architecture & DevOps
- Contribute to architecture planning and drive technical design decisions that ensure scalability and security
- Optimize the application stack for maximum speed and reliability
- Embrace CI/CD methodologies and infrastructure-as-code practices to streamline deployments
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies that enhance our backend ecosystem
What we’re looking for
| Must Haves
- 5+ years of experience developing APIs and backend services
- 2+ years of experience writing Solidity smart contracts
- Strong understanding of API Development and best practices
- Experience with Python, Django, PostgreSQL and Redis
- Proficiency in writing clean, readable, and well-documented code
- Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, and network request handling
- Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git
- Knowledge of backend performance profiling and optimization techniques
- Experience with testing and managing AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with crypto and related infrastructure, specifically EVM
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing requirements
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols, especially stablecoins, lending markets, liquid staking, or yield optimization systems
- Experience integrating offchain data via oracles
| Nice to Haves
- Experience with Celery, Django admin sites
- Experience with smart contract audits
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery processes
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Understanding of energy markets and renewable energy systems
What we offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Opportunity to shape a category-defining product from the ground up
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Wellhub membership
- Monthly wellness stipend
Daylight values diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We're building technology that serves everyone, and we believe diverse perspectives make our team and our product stronger.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Daylight
About Daylight
Daylight is the decentralized energy company. We're building a protocol that converts distributed solar and storage systems into yield-bearing infrastructure. These assets are deployed behind the meter in American homes and businesses, generating electricity revenues that flow onchain as a single, liquid yield token. Our ambition is to build the economic engine for energy abundance—where capital fuels power, and power fuels everything.
Backed by a16z, Framework Ventures, and other leading investors, we’re bringing together top minds in energy and crypto to build a new kind of energy network—one that is transparent, decentralized, and designed for the energy transition. Learn more at www.godaylight.com.
The Role
As a Protocol Engineer at Daylight, you’ll lead the development of our core smart contracts and decentralized backend systems that underpin our onchain energy network. Our protocol interacts with energy hardware in the real world and tokenizes the value of flexible energy capacity into crypto-native incentives—bridging digital and physical infrastructure through verifiable smart contracts, oracles, and data integrations.
You should bring deep experience in Solidity and DeFi architectures (especially stablecoins, lending, or reward mechanisms), and be comfortable deploying cross-chain smart contracts using modern interoperability protocols like LayerZero or Wormhole. You should also be confident designing systems that ingest and act on offchain data in a trust-minimized way—whether through Chainlink, Chronicle, or custom oracle networks.
We’re a small team working quickly, so you should be comfortable jumping into backend tasks when needed—whether supporting our Django APIs or refining the interface between our offchain services and smart contract layer.
This is a high-impact, high-ownership role. You'll work directly with the founding team, shaping the cryptoeconomic and technical foundation of Daylight's protocol.
This role is in-person in our New York City office.
Responsibilities
- Protocol Development
- Design and implement Solidity smart contracts that underpin Daylight’s decentralized energy markets
- Lead architecture decisions for our EVM-based systems across mainnet and L2s
- Manage crosschain deployments and integrations using LayerZero, Wormhole, or similar technologies
- Develop core logic for staking, token issuance, energy capacity verification, and rewards
- Data Integration & Oracles
- Architect secure offchain data flows to feed real-world energy data into onchain systems
- Work with oracles and custom data infrastructure to bridge between energy hardware, APIs, and contracts
- Design and maintain trust assumptions, verification mechanisms, and upgrade paths
- Backend Engineering
- Support Daylight’s core backend team as needed with Python/Django development
- Help design and maintain APIs that interact with contracts and power our frontend applications
- Participate in DevOps, testing, and deployment of protocol-related services
- Security & Auditing
- Lead internal security reviews and coordinate third-party audits of smart contracts
- Stay up-to-date on known exploits and best practices in DeFi and crosschain architecture
- Product Strategy & R&D
- Contribute to protocol incentive design, economic modeling, and simulations
- Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and cryptoeconomic primitives to inform
What we’re looking for
| Must Haves
- 3+ years of experience developing and deploying Solidity smart contracts in production
- Deep familiarity with DeFi protocols—especially stablecoins, lending markets, staking, or yield systems
- Experience with crosschain development (e.g., LayerZero, Wormhole, Axelar)
- Proven experience integrating offchain data via oracles (Chainlink, Chronicle, custom feeds)
- Understanding of EVM security, auditing practices, and gas optimization
- Comfortable writing and reviewing Python code and supporting traditional backend engineering tasks
- Passion for clean energy, decentralization, and building systems with real-world impact
- Based in NYC, excited to collaborate in-office
| Nice to Haves
- Experience building L2-native or modular appchains (OP Stack, Polygon CDK, etc.)
- Familiarity with protocol simulations (e.g., Python-based Monte Carlo models or token economic tools)
- Previous experience contributing to open-source protocols
- Understanding of DERs, energy hardware, or grid operations
- Experience working in early-stage startups or founding teams
What we offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Monthly wellness and Wellhub stipend
- Opportunity to shape a category-defining protocol from the ground up
- Work in-person with a deeply motivated team in New York City
Daylight values diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We're building technology that serves everyone, and we believe diverse perspectives make our team and our product stronger.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Daylight