Lead Protocol Engineer

Wells Fargo

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Concord, CAColumbus, OHIselin, NJNew York, NY
Salary
$159,000–$305,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
5 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 30, 2026
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest banks in the United States, providing banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services nationwide. Industry: Banking & Financial Services

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The Lead Protocol Engineer will join the team to architect the core settlement engine for a next-generation Digital Asset Platform. This role focuses on solving the contradiction between regulatory compliance and transaction confidentiality in institutional finance. You will build a custom blockchain application using Go, Cosmos SDK, and CometBFT. Key responsibilities include implementing privacy-preserving primitives like Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs, engineering custom ABCI++ extensions for Multi-Party Computation mixing networks, and designing KVStore state machines for homomorphic encrypted balances. You will optimize cryptographic operations for low latency and build off-chain query layers for regulatory auditing. Required expertise includes Go, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, BFT consensus algorithms, and P2P networking. You must be able to translate academic mathematical whitepapers into production-grade code for distributed systems.

Skills

Go Cosmos SDK CometBFT Tendermint ABCI++ Multi-Party Computation Elliptic Curve Cryptography Pedersen Commitments Bulletproofs Zero-Knowledge Proofs Homomorphic Encryption Ristretto255 gnark-crypto Distributed Systems P2P Networking State Machine Design KVStore

What you'll do

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

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience.
  • 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.
  • Experience with reliable, distributed systems.
  • Deep experience with Cosmos SDK and CometBFT (preferred).
  • Experience with Pedersen Commitments, Zero-Knowledge Proofs (Bulletproofs or Sigma protocols), or MPC (preferred).
  • Ability to translate academic whitepapers and mathematical specifications into functioning code (preferred).

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