Lead Protocol Engineer (Web3)

TL;DR

Lead Protocol Engineer (Web3): Building a custom digital asset platform for institutional finance with an accent on regulatory compliance and transaction confidentiality. Focus on designing core protocol components, implementing privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives, and optimizing distributed consensus mechanisms.

Location: Must be based in Iselin, New Jersey

Company

hirify.global is a professional services firm providing contingent workforce solutions.

What you will do

• Architect and develop custom blockchain applications using Go, Cosmos SDK, and CometBFT.
• Implement privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives including Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs.
• Develop custom ABCI++ extensions and support on-chain Multi-Party Computation (MPC) networks.
• Design and maintain custom KVStore state machines for homomorphically encrypted balances.
• Optimize cryptographic operations and system throughput in distributed environments.
• Develop secure off-chain query layers for permissioned regulatory oversight.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of backend or systems programming experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang).
• 1+ year of experience building reliable distributed systems.
• 6+ months of hands-on experience with Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).
• Must be authorized to work in the US (W2 contract).

Nice to have

• Experience with Cosmos SDK and CometBFT/Tendermint.
• Knowledge of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) and MPC.
• Background in financial services or digital asset platforms.