Associate Software Engineer

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 counter party 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, Clear Loop is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counter party 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, Clear Loop 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.

We aim to achieve a balance between corporate culture and start‑up culture, and at the same time be close to product solutions. Therefore, we divide our department into small self‑sufficient teams that can make decisions on their own.

This is an associate level opportunity for a Software Engineer to join the Platform Data and Reporting team at Copper to maintain and build new backend microservices handling large amounts of data.

• As a key member of the engineering team, participating 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 ones.
• Contribute to code reviews, architectural decisions, and agile practices within the team.
• Support and solve problems from clients and stakeholders.

• Experience in building software with an OOP language:
  Scala, Kotlin, Java, or Go.
• Familiarity with relational databases such as Postgre
  
  SQL.
• An understanding of the critical importance of testing, well‑versed and able to build automated tests of server‑side code.
• A pragmatic individual with the ability to identify, prioritise and focus on key business and technical capabilities.
• You’re professionally curious and willing to research and use technologies and programming languages that you haven’t faced before.

• Experience with containerisation and Dev Ops practices
• Experience in building and optimising systems for working with large amounts of data, both at the database level and interactions between services

• Holidays: 27 days per annum paid holiday, in addition to bank holidays
• Years of Service Days:
  Employees are awarded one additional day of paid time off per year of service (up to three years)
• Vitality Health:
  Medical Insurance:
  Copper provides all employees with individual cover. Medical history is disregarded, and a 24 / 7 virtual GP is available (£100 excess per person per year) Dental Insurance:
  Comprehensive dental cover for preventative, restorative and emergency treatment Audiology Cover:
  Employees can claim back up 80% of costs, up to £300, for any hearing tests or hearing aids Optical Cover: £500 optical cover (through Vision Express) or 80% reimbursement up to £300 for any other optician Menopause Support:
  Unlimited support for those experiencing symptoms of the menopause, such as video consultations with a dedicated menopause practitioner Vitality services also include an additional £100 for minor…