Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is a multinational financial services company operating across banking and related financial products. Its hiring landscape includes opportunities for early-career professionals, experienced specialists, and leaders, with an emphasis on collaboration, innovation, and an inclusive workplace culture. The company also highlights development programs designed to support career progression across its broad workforce.

Senior Specialty Protocol Engineer at Wells Fargo (Hybrid)

Wells Fargo is hiring a senior protocol engineer to develop compliant digital asset infrastructure. The role focuses on cryptographic blockchain systems for confidential institutional settlement.

Description

  • Develop a custom blockchain application with Go, Cosmos SDK, and CometBFT
  • Implement and optimize privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives, including Pedersen commitments and Bulletproof range proofs
  • Create ABCI++ PrepareProposal and Vote Extensions to support an on-chain multi-party computation mixing network
  • Design a custom KVStore state machine for homomorphically encrypted balances represented as elliptic curve points
  • Improve cryptographic operations such as scalar multiplication and point addition for low latency and high throughput
  • Develop secure off-chain query services and view-key mechanisms for granular, permissioned regulatory audits
  • Design the core settlement engine for an institutional digital asset platform
  • Convert mathematical proofs into high-performance, production-ready Go code
  • Help shape architectural decisions involving elliptic curves, libraries, and software design patterns

Requirements

  • At least four years of specialty software engineering experience, or equivalent experience gained through work, training, military service, or education
  • At least three years of backend or systems programming experience
  • Expert proficiency in Go (Golang)
  • At least six months of experience with elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)
  • At least one year of experience with BFT consensus algorithms, peer-to-peer networking, and state replication
  • Cosmos SDK and CometBFT experience is preferred
  • Experience creating custom modules and modifying consensus logic is preferred
  • Experience with Pedersen commitments and homomorphic encryption is preferred
  • Experience with zero-knowledge proofs, particularly Bulletproofs or Sigma protocols, is preferred
  • Ability to interpret academic whitepapers or preprints and convert mathematical specifications into working code is preferred
  • Experience with multi-party computation or verifiable secret-sharing schemes is preferred
  • Familiarity with the Ristretto255 curve or libraries such as gnark-crypto is preferred
  • Experience in fintech, payment systems, or high-frequency trading platforms is preferred
  • Understanding of the trade-offs between account-based and UTXO models in privacy-preserving ledgers is preferred

Benefits

  • Health insurance and related benefits
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability coverage
  • Life, critical illness, and accident insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Critical caregiving leave
  • Employee discounts and savings programs
  • Commuter benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Scholarships for dependent children
  • Adoption reimbursement
  • Potential incentive opportunities

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