Software Engineering Team Lead (Scala)

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, 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 applies to all stages of product production: from conceptualisation to architecture, to build, to release, to iteration and support.

Each day you are working in a fast and dynamic environment. You are participating in every stage of product and feature development: to support, improve, and create from scratch services that handle over 50 blockchain protocols with more than 500 cryptocurrency assets used by the largest institutions clients.

You'll do lots of research and develop your knowledge regarding cryptocurrency and blockchain area 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 working on implementing several major product changes that will improve client experience with cryptocurrency interaction like secure cryptocurrencies management or simplifying user flows with interacting with Decentralised Finances (DeFi).

The role

• Join as a part of the product development team, participating in every stage of product and feature development - from conceptualisation to architecture, to build, to release, to iteration and support
• Be responsible for team outcome from end to end – planning team activities, setting up and follow agile development processes, establishing communication with other departments, controlling codebase quality and production deployment cycles
• Implement the necessary practices to comply with global certifications such as SOC2
• Support and solve problems from clients and stakeholders

Your experience, skills and knowledge

• At least 1 significant role as a leader of a team/group i.e. as a tech lead or team lead, ideally with direct line management experience
• Excellent communication skills, and an understanding of how people are motivated
• 6+ years of hands-on backend development experience with large scale systems
• Expertise building applications in Scala plus at least one object orientated programming language
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience in building and optimising systems for working with large amounts of data, both at the database level and interactions between services
• Experience with containerisation and DevOps practices

Desirable

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

Our core Tech Stack

• Software development languages: Scala, Typescript (Node.js), Rust
• Storage: PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, Clickhouse
• Backend Frameworks: Spring, Akka HTTP
• Frontend Frameworks: React, Electron.js
• Interservice communication: RabbitMQ
• Architecture: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Mesos/Marathon container orchestration, Consul, Nginx, GoCD by ThoughtWorks CI/CD, Prometheus, Kibana, Grafana

What we offer

• Work with talented colleagues at the cutting edge of financial technology
• Competitive salary
• Bi-annual bonus incentive
• Employee Growth Share equity incentive
• 25 days holiday per year (increasing by one day per year of service)
• Private medical and dental care
• Pension with matched contribution up to 10%
• And more!

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