Daylight

Daylight

Protocol Engineer

New York, NY

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 362 days ago
PythonDjangoDevOpsProduct StrategyAuditing

About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Design and maintain trust assumptions, verification mechanisms, and upgrade paths
  • 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
  • Lead internal security reviews and coordinate third-party audits of smart contracts
  • Contribute to protocol incentive design, economic modeling, and simulations
  • We're building technology that serves everyone, and we believe diverse perspectives make our team and our product stronger.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience developing and deploying Solidity smart contracts in production
  • Experience with crosschain development (e.g., LayerZero, Wormhole, Axelar)
  • Proven experience integrating offchain data via oracles (Chainlink, Chronicle, custom feeds)
  • Familiarity with protocol simulations (e.g., Python-based Monte Carlo models or token economic tools)
  • Experience working in early-stage startups or founding teams

Skills

  • About Daylight
  • Daylight is the decentralized energy company.
  • Learn more at www.godaylight.com.

Compensation

  • Competitive salary and equity package

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Monthly wellness and Wellhub stipend

This listing is sourced directly from Daylight's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.