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Job Description
Since being founded in 2018 Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody collateral management and prime services.
Led by Amar Kuchinad Coppers Global CEO 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 Coppers offering is MultiParty Computation (MPC) technology the gold standard in secure custody. Coppers multiaward 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 stateoftheart 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 MPCsecured 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 industryleading 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.
Department environment
We aim to achieve a balance between corporate culture and startup culture and at the same time be close to product solutions. Therefore we divide our department into small selfsufficient teams that can make decisions on their own. This applies to all stages of product production: from conceptualisation to architecture to build to release to iteration and support.
Youll do lots of research and develop your knowledge regarding cryptocurrency and blockchain including data processing protocols integration etc. In addition to this youll be surrounded by friendly highlevel specialists who are ready to share their knowledge.
The team is currently working on several major product changes that will improve client experience with cryptocurrency interaction like secure cryptocurrencies management or simplifying user flows when interacting with Decentralised Finance (DeFi) protocols.
Key Responsibilities of the role
- Support and improve current services that handle over 50 blockchain protocols with more than 500 cryptocurrency assets.
- Research and building new blockchain integration and solutions including blockchain data processing cryptocurrency protocols integrations DeFi integration etc.
- Support and solve problems from clients and stakeholders.
Your experience skills and knowledge
- Professional experience building software using Typescript (Node.js). Additionally Scala or Java would be helpful.
- Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- An understanding of the critical importance of unit tests wellversed and able to build automated tests of serverside code.
- Youre professionally curious and willing to develop yourself as a multistack developer. You are ready that you should research and use technologies and programming languages that you didnt face before.
Desirable
- Proficiency with containerisation and DevOps practices.
- Experience developing Smart Contracts.
- Familiarity with working on blockchain development (cryptocurrency wallets blockchain data processing DeFi etc).
- Experience in building and optimising systems for working with large amounts of data both at the database level and interactions between services.
Our core tech stack
- Software development languages: Scala Typescript (Node.js).
- Storage: PostgreSQL Mongo DB Clickhouse.
- Backend Frameworks: Spring Akka HTTP.
- Frontend Frameworks: React ElectronJs.
- Interservice communication: RabbitMQ.
- Architecture: ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA).
- Infrastructure: AWS Terraform Ansible Docker Mesos/Marathon container orchestration Consul Nginx GoCD by ThoughtWorks CI/CD Prometheus Kibana Grafana.
The benefits offered
- 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 diagnostic tests and private prescriptions including home diagnostics
- Headspace Coppers policy provides all employees with a free Headspace subscription. Headspace provides great resources to manage stress improve sleep meditate and enhance mindfulness
- Discounts and free benefits the Vitality programme has been designed for preventative care to encourage members to improve their overall health and will reward those for doing so. Employees can access additional benefits such as 50 off running shoes discounted health screenings 50 off at Nuffield Health or Virgin Active gyms and much more
- Home Working Energy Support Scheme: to combat energy prices increasing globally Copper will provide you in addition to your salary with a monthly topup of 60 or 75 (subject to your energy supplier)
- Pension up to 10 matched contribution to our company pension scheme via Smart Pensions
- Cycle to Work
- Life Insurance cover: Four times your base salary
- EAP: access unlimited mental health consultations and contact a 24/7 confidential helpline for emotional support
- Unmind
- Sponsored Learning and Development opportunities
- Regular company events and social activities
In return for everything you can bring to Copper we can offer you an exciting challenging role in a fastgrowing and dynamic business with career opportunities and welcoming working environment.
If you think you have everything were looking for and more then wed love you to apply for the opportunity.
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 transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer please let us know if you have a disability. If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.
Employment Type
Full Time
