Protocol Engineer
Daylight is a decentralized energy company providing homeowners with solar panels and battery backup through a subscription model with no upfront costs. It handles installation, maintenance, monitoring, and energy management while serving residential homeowners and solar installation partners.
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About Daylight
Daylight Energy, LLC, doing business as Daylight, builds and operates a distributed residential energy network. Its services include solar panels, home battery storage, energy subscriptions, installation, maintenance, monitoring, outage protection, energy-efficiency assessments, upgrade recommendations, and a mobile app for tracking production, usage, battery status, and savings. Daylight also offers power purchase agreement services and operational support for solar installation partners, including procurement, compliance, filings, project tracking, and commission payouts. The company primarily serves U.S. homeowners in its service areas and solar installer partners.
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About the Role
You will lead the design and implementation of Solidity smart contracts that power decentralized energy markets. You will architect EVM-based systems, manage crosschain deployments, and build secure offchain data flows and oracle integrations. You will support Python/Django backend work, design APIs, run security reviews, coordinate audits, and contribute to cryptoeconomic modeling and protocol research. Expect hands-on ownership of deployments, testing, and operational tooling, and frequent collaboration with engineering and product stakeholders to refine verification, upgrade, and reward mechanisms. This role requires in-office presence in New York City.
Requirements
- 3+ years developing and deploying Solidity smart contracts in production
- Deep familiarity with DeFi architectures such as stablecoins, lending markets, staking, or yield systems
- Experience with crosschain technologies (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 backend engineering tasks
- Based in New York City and available to work in-office
- Passion for clean energy and decentralized systems
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Solidity smart contracts
- Lead architecture decisions for EVM-based systems
- Manage crosschain deployments and integrations
- Develop logic for staking and token issuance
- Develop energy capacity verification and reward mechanisms
- Architect secure offchain data flows
- Integrate and operate oracle networks
- Design verification mechanisms and upgrade paths
- Support Python/Django backend development
- Design and maintain APIs
- Participate in DevOps, testing, and deployments
- Lead internal security reviews and coordinate audits
- Monitor exploits and enforce EVM security best practices
- Contribute to protocol incentive design and economic modeling
- Evaluate new technologies and cryptoeconomic primitives
Benefits
- Equity package
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Monthly wellness and Wellhub stipend
