Lead Protocol Engineer - Go Blockchain & Privacy

MassGenics, Inc.; Concord, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus

Medical & pharmacy coverage

401(k)

HSA/FSA

Life Insurance

Disability coverage

Job summary

Innova Solutions in Concord, CA seeks a Lead Specialty Software Engineer (Protocol Engineer) to architect and develop the core settlement engine for a privacy-preserving digital asset platform. You will translate complex cryptographic concepts into high-performance Go code and work across distributed systems, cryptography, and MPC implementations.

The role is full-time contract (W-2) for 12 months with 3 days onsite / 2 days remote, offering competitive pay and a referral bonus program.

Qualifications

• Specialty Software Engineering experience or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build custom blockchain applications using Go, Cosmos SDK, and CometBFT (Tendermint).
• Design and develop the core settlement engine for a next-generation Digital Asset Platform.
• Implement privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives including Pedersen Commitments and Bulletproofs (Range Proofs).
• Engineer custom ABCI++ extensions to implement an on-chain MPC mixing network.
• Design KVStore state machines for homomorphic encrypted balances.
• Optimize cryptographic operations to improve latency and throughput.
• Build secure off-chain query layers and view key mechanisms for regulatory auditing.
• Translate cryptographic specs into high-performance Go code.
• Work at the intersection of distributed systems and applied cryptography.
• Contribute to cryptographic curve choices, libraries, protocol design, and engineering patterns.
• Develop and maintain distributed systems leveraging BFT, P2P, and state replication.
• Build custom blockchain modules and participate in consensus logic enhancements.
• Collaborate to design scalable, privacy-preserving digital asset infrastructure.
• Apply MPC, VSS, ZK proofs, and ECC in protocol development.
• Support privacy-preserving ledger architectures and settlement mechanisms.

Skills

Go proficiency

Cosmos SDK

CometBFT/Tendermint

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Pedersen Commitments

Bulletproofs

MPC concepts

Go performance engineering

Tools

Cosmos SDK

CometBFT/Tendermint

Job description

Innova Solutions in Concord, CA seeks a Lead Specialty Software Engineer (Protocol Engineer) to architect and develop the core settlement engine for a privacy-preserving digital asset platform. You will translate complex cryptographic concepts into high-performance Go code and work across distributed systems, cryptography, and MPC implementations.

The role is full-time contract (W-2) for 12 months with 3 days onsite / 2 days remote, offering competitive pay and a referral bonus program.