Lead Protocol Engineer

Wells Fargo

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Iselin, NJColumbus, OHConcord, CA
Salary
$159,000–$305,000 / yr
Posted
22 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 30, 2026
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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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

Wells Fargo currently has 33 open roles on FindRole.

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Lead Protocol Engineer (Go / Cryptography) joins the team to architect a core settlement engine for a next-generation Digital Asset Platform. This role focuses on solving the conflict between regulatory compliance and transaction confidentiality in institutional finance by building a custom blockchain application. The engineer will develop high-performance Go code, implement privacy-preserving primitives like Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs, and design a KVStore state machine to manage homomorphically encrypted balances. Key responsibilities include engineering ABCI++ extensions for an on-chain Multi-Party Computation mixing network and building off-chain query layers for regulatory auditing. The role requires expertise in Go, Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and BFT consensus algorithms. Candidates must be able to translate complex mathematical whitepapers into production code while optimizing cryptographic operations like scalar multiplication for low latency in a distributed environment.

Skills

Go Cosmos SDK CometBFT Elliptic Curve Cryptography Pedersen Commitments Bulletproofs Multi-Party Computation Zero-Knowledge Proofs gnark-crypto P2P Networking Distributed Systems Homomorphic Encryption ABCI++ 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 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 to manage 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 experience, 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.
  • Experience with distributed systems and reliable system architecture.
  • Ability to translate academic whitepapers and mathematical specifications into production-grade code.
  • Familiarity with Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, Pedersen Commitments, and Zero-Knowledge Proofs.
  • Knowledge of Multi-Party Computation (MPC) or Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) schemes.

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