Hybrid Senior Specialty Protocol Engineer

Posted 5 days ago

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About the role

  • Senior Protocol Engineer at Wells Fargo architecting a custom blockchain application. Work on privacy/compliance in institutional finance leveraging advanced cryptography and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build a custom blockchain application using Go, Cosmos SDK, and CometBFT (Tendermint)
  • Implement and optimize privacy-preserving primitives, specifically Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs (Range Proofs), ensuring no trusted setup is required
  • Engineer custom ABCI++ extensions (specifically PrepareProposal and Vote Extensions) to implement an on-chain Multi-Party Computation (MPC) mixing network
  • Design a custom KVStore state machine that manages homomorphic encrypted balances (Elliptic Curve points) instead of plaintext integers
  • Optimize cryptographic operations (scalar multiplication, point addition) for low latency and high throughput in a distributed environment
  • Build secure off-chain query layers and "view key" mechanisms that allow for granular, permissioned regulatory auditing

Requirements

  • 4+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • 3+ years of experience in backend or systems programming, with expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang)
  • 6+ months of experience with Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
  • 1+ year of experience with BFT consensus algorithms, P2P networking, and state replication

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Critical caregiving leave
  • Discounts and savings
  • Commuter benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Scholarships for dependent children
  • Adoption reimbursement

Job title

Senior Specialty Protocol Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$119,000 - $224,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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