Summary

Department/Team Purpose:

Our mission is to enable Copper’s product teams to build and innovate faster by delivering secure, scalable and reliable core platform services. We aim to provide high-quality building blocks that power every product and ensure a consistent, seamless experience for our customers. 

Role Purpose:

We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to join our Core team. This team is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational microservices that power critical parts of our platform, including authorisation, invoicing, notifications, and user management. 

As a Backend Engineer on this team, you'll be working on systems that directly support and secure the entire product ecosystem. Your work will be central to enabling internal teams and delivering seamless, secure experiences to our users. 

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services in a microservices architecture. 
2. Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.
3. Collaborate with product managers, front end engineers and QA engineers on new features.
4. Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to maintain quality of our products. 
5. Ensure high availability, performance, and security of the services you own.
6. Support and solve problems from clients and stakeholders.

Skills and Experience:

Essential  

1. Experience building software with a JVM language: Scala, Kotlin, or Java.
2. Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
3. Strong understanding of REST APIs.
4. An understanding of the critical importance of testing, well-versed and able to build automated tests of server-side code.
5. Excellent communication skills. Able to formulate well defined questions and appropriately articulate ideas, problems, and solutions to various stakeholder groups.
6. Capacity to adapt in a fast changing environment and being able to work with elements of a tech stack that you haven’t faced before. 

Desirable 

1. Experience working within microservice based architecture. 
2. Possessing an understanding of distributed systems.

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Database Management
• Development
• Java
• SQL
• Team Collaboration