Senior Specialty Protocol Engineer

Wells Fargo

Hybrid Actively hiring Posted this week
Iselin, NJ · Columbus, OH · Concord, CA Posted 6 days ago $119,000–$224,000 / year
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Wells Fargo is hiring Senior Specialty Software Developers (Protocol Engineers) to join its cutting-edge Digital Asset Platform team, focusing on developing a custom blockchain infrastructure that ensures regulatory compliance while maintaining transaction privacy. As a senior engineer, you will architect the core settlement engine using Go and Cosmos SDK, implementing cryptographic primitives like Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs for secure, high-performance transactions. You’ll also customize ABCI++ to enable MPC mixing networks and design state machine logic with homomorphic encryption. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, BFT consensus algorithms, and applied cryptography, particularly Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Ideal candidates have experience with Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, and a strong background in FinTech or high-frequency trading platforms.

Skills

Go CosmosSDK CometBFT PedersenCommitments Bulletproofs MPC Ristretto255 gnark-crypto EllipticCurveCryptography ABCI++ KVStore Tendermint DistributedSystems BFTConsensus P2PNetworking FinTech HighFrequencyTradingPlatforms

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 (MPC) mixing network.
  • Design a KVStore state machine managing homomorphic encrypted balances for secure transactions.
  • Optimize cryptographic operations for low latency and high throughput in a distributed environment.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of specialty software engineering experience with a focus on backend or systems programming in Go (Golang)
  • Expert-level proficiency in Go for building production-grade applications
  • At least 6 months of hands-on experience with Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and cryptographic primitives
  • 1+ year of experience with BFT consensus algorithms, P2P networking, and state replication
  • Deep understanding of Cosmos SDK and CometBFT to build custom blockchain modules
  • Ability to implement Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs for privacy-preserving transactions

Employer

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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