Lead Protocol Engineer

What you'll do

• Architect and build a custom blockchain application using Go, Cosmos SDK, and CometBFT.
• Implement and optimize privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives like Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs.
• Engineer custom ABCI++ extensions to implement an on-chain Multi-Party Computation mixing network.
• Design a KVStore state machine that manages homomorphically encrypted balances as elliptic curve points.
• Optimize cryptographic operations for low latency and high throughput in distributed environments.
• Build secure off-chain query layers and view key mechanisms for permissioned regulatory auditing.
• Translate complex mathematical whitepapers and specifications into production-grade Go code.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience or equivalent through work, training, military, or 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 in distributed systems.
• Experience with Cosmos SDK and CometBFT (preferred).
• Knowledge of Pedersen Commitments or Zero-Knowledge Proofs such as Bulletproofs (preferred).
• Ability to translate mathematical whitepapers into functioning code (preferred).
• Experience with MPC, Verifiable Secret Sharing, Ristretto255, or gnark-crypto (preferred).