Summary

We’re 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. 

Your experience, skills and knowledge

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, frontend 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

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.

The benefits offered

1. Holidays: 27 days per annum paid holiday, in addition to bank holidays
2. Years of Service Days: Employees are awarded one additional day of paid time off per year of service (up to three years)
3. Vitality Health:
4. 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)
5. Dental Insurance: Comprehensive dental cover for preventative, restorative and emergency treatment
6. Audiology Cover: Employees can claim back up 80% of costs, up to £300, for any hearing tests or hearing aids
7. Optical Cover: £500 optical cover (through Vision Express) or 80% reimbursement up to £300 for any other optician
8. Menopause Support: Unlimited support for those experiencing symptoms of the menopause, such as video consultations with a dedicated menopause practitioner
9. Vitality services also include an additional £100 for minor diagnostic tests and private prescriptions, including home diagnostics
10. Headspace - Copper's policy provides all employees with a free Headspace subscription. Headspace provides great resources to manage stress, improve sleep, meditate and enhance mindfulness
11. 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
12. Home Working Energy Support Scheme: to combat energy prices increasing globally, Copper will provide you, in addition to your salary, with a monthly top-up of £60 or £75 (subject to your energy supplier)
13. Pension up to 10% matched contribution to our company pension scheme via Smart Pensions
14. Cycle to Work
15. Life Insurance cover: Four times your base salary
16. EAP: access unlimited mental health consultations and contact a 24/7 confidential helpline for emotional support
17. Unmind
18. Sponsored Learning and Development opportunities
19. 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 fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and welcoming working environment.

If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Database Management
• Java
• Problem Solving
• Quality Assurance
• SQL