Lead Protocol Engineer Go Cryptography
Overview
Wells Fargo seeks a Lead Specialty Software Engineer to architect a next generation Digital Asset Platform solving regulatory compliance and transaction confidentiality challenges. The role involves building a core settlement engine at the intersection of distributed systems and applied cryptography translating mathematical proofs into production grade Go code. This position offers technical autonomy shaping architecture and driving high impact solutions.
What You'll Do6
- 1Architect and build a custom blockchain application using Go Cosmos SDK and CometBFT
- 2Implement privacy preserving primitives Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs ensuring no trusted setup
- 3Engineer custom ABCI++ extensions PrepareProposal and Vote Extensions for on chain Multi Party Computation mixing network
- 4Design a custom KVStore state machine managing homomorphic encrypted balances using elliptic curve points
- 5Optimize cryptographic operations scalar multiplication and point addition for low latency and high throughput
- 6Build secure off chain query layers and view key mechanisms enabling granular permissioned regulatory auditing
Requirements7
- 15+ years specialty software engineering experience or equivalent
- 2Expert level proficiency in Go with 3+ years ECC experience
- 31+ year experience with BFT consensus algorithms P2P networking and state replication
- 4Deep familiarity with Cosmos SDK and CometBFT
- 5Proven ability to translate academic whitepapers into functioning code for Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs
- 6Background in FinTech payment systems or high frequency trading platforms
- 7Understanding of account model versus UTXO model tradeoffs in privacy preserving ledgers
Salary Insight
$159 - $305k per year
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