Copper is a digital asset technology company dedicated to helping institutional investors safely acquire, trade, and store crypto assets

Built and led by Dmitry Tokarev, a software and financial engineering specialist, the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Copper’s offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology – the gold standard in secure custody. Copper’s multi-award winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralised exchanges, DeFi applications and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody.

Built on top of this state-of-the-art custody, ClearLoop™ is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering, connecting global exchanges and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPC-secured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures, ClearLoop™ is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital.

In addition to industry-leading security certifications, Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A+ rated insurer, positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets

The department environment

We aim to achieve a balance between corporate culture and start-up culture, while being close to product solutions. Therefore, we divide our department into small self-sufficient teams that can make decisions on their own.

Working in a fast and dynamic environment, you will participate in every stage of product and feature development: to support, improve, and create from scratch back-end services that handle over 50 blockchain protocols with more than 500 cryptocurrency assets used by the largest institutional clients.

You’ll do lots of research and develop your knowledge regarding cryptocurrency and blockchain, including data processing, protocols integration etc. In addition to this, you’ll be surrounded by friendly high-level specialists who are ready to share their knowledge.

The team is currently implementing several major product changes that will improve client experience with cryptocurrency interactions, like secure cryptocurrencies management or simplifying user flows when interacting with Decentralised Finance (DeFi) protocols.

The role

Research and build new back-end microservices that manage business processes related to custody, trading, and settlement of digital assets, as well as building integrations with cryptocurrency exchanges, traditional financial services providers, payment networks and other third parties.

Key responsibilities

• As a key member of the product development team, participate in every stage of product and feature development - from conceptualisation to architecture, to build, to release, to iteration and support

• Build the backend services for our new features, as well as supporting the existing product lines

• Build integrations with traditional financial services providers and other third parties

• Contribute to code reviews, architectural decisions, and agile practices within the team

• Support and solve problems from clients and stakeholders

• Provide mentorship to more junior colleagues

Your key skills and experience

• 2+ years’ experience building applications in Scala or Kotlin

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering

• Well-versed with (and committed to) the OOP paradigm and design patterns

• Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL

• An understanding of the critical importance of unit tests, well-versed and able to build automated tests of server-side code

• The ability to prioritise, distinguish between major and minor issues, and not get hung up on the latter

Desirable

• Experience working on blockchain development (cryptocurrency wallets, blockchain data processing, DeFi, Smart Contracts etc)

• Experience with traditional financial services

• Experience of building workflow engines

• Experience of service bus architecture

What we offer

• Work with talented colleagues at the forefront of financial technology

• Competitive salary

• Bi-annual bonus incentive

• Employee Growth Share incentive

• 25 days holiday a year plus bank holiday entitlement

• Private medical and dental care

• Pension with matched contribution, up to 10% of salary

• Home Working Energy Support Scheme

• Breakfast and refreshments in the office

• And more!

In return for everything you bring to Copper, we offer an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and welcoming working environment.

Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. So, bring us your experience, perspectives, and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is setting the institutional standard for digital assets.

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Salary and compensation

No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Defi, Crypto, Finance, Scala, Senior, Junior, Engineer, Backend and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:

$70,000 — $120,000/year

Location

Remote - UK and Europe