Description
About Daylight ================
Daylight is a decentralized energy company building a protocol that converts distributed solar and storage systems into yield-bearing infrastructure.
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.
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
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 ====================
- 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
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