Senior Specialty Protocol Engineer

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.

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated 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.
• Deep experience with Cosmos SDK and CometBFT (preferred).
• Experience with Pedersen Commitments, Zero-Knowledge Proofs (Bulletproofs or Sigma protocols), or MPC/VSS schemes (preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to translate academic whitepapers and mathematical specifications into functioning code (preferred).
• Background in FinTech, payment systems, high-frequency trading, or understanding Account vs. UTXO models (preferred).