Palette Labs
Palette Labs

11-50 employees

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Environmental Services
Software Development
Sustainability
About Palette Labs

Palette Labs is a technology company focused on providing software solutions that help organizations measure, manage, and reduce their environmental impact. Their platform integrates data analytics and sustainability management tools to empower businesses in achieving their climate goals and improving ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance. Palette Labs serves a variety of industries by offering actionable insights and reporting capabilities that support corporate sustainability initiatives. The company’s mission is to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy by making environmental data accessible and actionable for decision-makers.

5 months ago

Founding Protocol Engineer

Full-time
Mid Level
Founding Protocol Engineer
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Description
  • Palette Labs is building a decentralized protocol for commerce, focusing on food delivery and permissionless marketplaces.
  • The role involves designing and implementing core smart contracts, verifiable data models, bridging mechanisms, and incentive structures to enable a permissionless ecosystem.
  • You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business logic into secure, upgradeable decentralized primitives, lead protocol security practices, evaluate emerging web3 infrastructure, and define long-term protocol architecture.
  • The position is remote within the United States, with a preference for candidates in New York City, requiring some overlap with EST working hours.

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Requirements
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years of production web3 or smart contract engineering.
  • Deep expertise in EVM development (Solidity, Vyper, or equivalent), including security best practices, testing, gas optimization, and upgrade patterns.
  • Experience designing verifiable, high-integrity systems using cryptographic primitives (signatures, Merkle structures, proofs, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of protocol architecture — state machines, sequencing, event logs, indexing, and data availability considerations.
  • Hands-on experience building production-grade onchain/offchain systems, including interactions between smart contracts and backend services.
  • Proven ability to design from first principles, especially when standard solutions don’t exist.
  • Strong product instincts with the ability to simplify complex mechanisms into intuitive, usable primitives.
  • Experience collaborating on high-level protocol design, not just contract implementation.

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Benefits
  • Base Salary: A competitive annual salary, commensurate with your experience and industry standards.
  • Performance Bonus: Eligible for our company semi-annual performance bonus, which is tied directly to individual achievements.
  • Equity / Stock Options: We offer stock options to all full‑time employees, allowing you to share directly in the company's success and long-term growth.
  • Health & Wellness: 100% employer‑covered premium options for Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for employees.
  • Time Off: Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy