capital.com

Java Software Engineer (Crypto Focused)

capital.com

5 days ago

# Java Software Engineer (Crypto Focused) **Location:** Sofia City, Bulgaria / Limassol, Cyprus / Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland **Department:** Product & Engineering – Product **Work Model:** Hybrid ## About Us We are a leading trading platform that is expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talent team. We are currently growing our Backend Team and looking for great Engineers with an interest in trading to join us! Our Engineering team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the robustness, speed, and security of our product. Dedicated to enhancing performance, providing a best-in-class user experience, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding data, the team's efforts directly impact our ability to offer clients a seamless and secure trading journey. We believe great engineering talent not only delivers excellent code, but also lives our values. We are looking for someone who is eager to **go fast**, willing to **innovate and grow**, who knows how to **listen, respect and support**, strives to **exceed client expectations**, and takes **full ownership** to achieve **real results**. ## Core Responsibilities * Design and build **scalable, low-latency, and high-performance backend services** * Develop **distributed and asynchronous systems** ensuring reliability and fault tolerance * Optimise performance across **JVM, databases, caching, and networking** layers * Apply **security best practices** in handling client PII and financial transactions * Use **event-driven architectures** and modern messaging solutions (e.g. Kafka) * Collaborate with **cross-functional teams** to align architecture with business needs * Maintain **high code quality** through testing, code reviews, and CI/CD practices * Leverage **AI tools** to accelerate development, testing, and delivery ## Additional Core Responsibilities (Crypto Focused) * Design and build **backend systems for custody, wallet services, staking, and trading.** * Implement secure **key-management and transaction-signing workflows** (multisig, MPC, HSM). * Integrate with **blockchain nodes,** custody providers, CEX/DEX APIs, and staking protocols. * Support the **integration of third-party staking service providers** and manage the associated workflows, including delegation, monitoring, and reward distribution. ## What You Will Need: Experience & Domain Knowledge * Proven experience in **FinTech, Banking, or related financial domains** * Strong understanding of **distributed systems architecture** and the client–server model * Ability to design and maintain **scalable, low-latency, high-performance systems** * Solid knowledge of **concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming** * Awareness of **security best practices** in handling PII and financial transactions * Basic understanding of **network protocols** and troubleshooting * Experience working in a **product-led** fast-paced environment as a team player ## Additional Experience & Domain Knowledge (Crypto Focused) * Strong **understanding of blockchain fundamentals**: consensus, mempool, finality, gas mechanics, security considerations, and transaction lifecycles. * Hands-on **experience with major chains** (e.g., Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Cosmos, Polygon). * Deep **experience with wallet systems**, key management, multisig/threshold signatures, hot/cold wallet architecture, and secure signing pipelines. * Experience with **custody platforms** (Fireblocks, BitGo, Ledger Enterprise, Copper) or building custody-grade internal wallet infrastructure. * Practical experience with **staking/validator operations**, including rewards, uptime, monitoring, and slashing mitigation. ## Technical Skills * **Java and Spring:** Advanced knowledge of Java Core technologies and the Spring framework * **Data Mastery:** Proficiency with SQL databases, ensuring optimal performance, structure, and replication * **Concurrency & Async programming:** Advanced understanding and hands-on experience in asynchronous programming methods. * **Events streaming:** Understanding of the event driven architecture (Kafka or similar solutions). * **Operational Proficiency:** Understanding and hands-on experience with Ops activities, Kubernetes, pipelines, and modern CI/CD patterns and strategies * **AI tools:** Ability to effectively use AI technologies in engineering work e.g. applying AI for coding assistance, debugging, testing, documentation, and optimisation of workflows ## Soft Skills * **Communication:** Effective communication skills, especially with teams responsible for security, operations and product * **Analytical thinking:** Ability to tackle and investigate complicated problems and convert it to the task * **Adaptability to Rapid Changes:** Demonstrated capability to adjust to quick technological shifts and evolving business requirements * **Ownership and Accountability:** Readiness to take ownership of tasks, issues as well as demonstrate accountability of the results and outcome ## Nice to Have * **Performance:** Knowledge of JVM performance optimization practices * **No-SQL:** Experience working with no-SQL databases is a big plus * **In-memory storage:** Strong knowledge of in-memory cache solutions * Familiarity with **double-entry accounting** * Understanding of **DeFi protocols, liquidity mechanisms, yield strategies**, or governance systems. * Exposure to **MEV concepts, transaction simulation, or other advanced blockchain topics.**

Head of Risk Management (Digital Assets)

capital.com

31 days ago

# Head of Risk Management (Digital Assets) **Location:** Limassol, Cyprus / Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland / Sofia City, Bulgaria / London, England, United Kingdom / Dubai **Department:** Risk – Risk **Workplace Type:** Hybrid ## About Us We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talented team. ### About Capital Vault: **Capital Vault (CV)** is a crypto infrastructure provider under the Capital.com Group umbrella, focused on delivering regulated crypto custody, spot exchange, payment processing, and wallet services. ## Role Summary The **Head of Risk Management** is a senior leadership position responsible for establishing, overseeing, and continuously enhancing CV’s enterprise-wide risk framework. This includes financial, operational, cyber, and crypto-asset-specific risks. The role is critical in meeting the SCA/CySEC/FCA regulatory expectations and ensuring the company operates within its defined risk appetite across all business lines. ## Key Responsibilities ### 1. Strategic Risk Oversight: - Design, implement, and maintain a risk management framework tailored for a regulated crypto firm. - Identify and assess material risks across CV's business: custody, exchange, wallets, payments and staking. - Define and update the firm’s risk appetite and tolerance thresholds in collaboration with the Board. ### 2. Risk Governance & Reporting: - Lead the Risk Management Committee and prepare regular risk reports to the Board and regulators. - Maintain the Risk Register and ensure timely escalation of emerging risks. - Work closely with Compliance and Internal Audit to maintain a robust control environment. ### 3. Operational Risk: - Develop risk scenarios. - Monitor and respond to service disruptions and operational control failures. - Drive implementation of internal controls and conduct Risk & Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs). ### 4. Market, Liquidity & Credit Risk: - Assess risks linked to CV’s trading with external liquidity providers (e.g., default, slippage, settlement failure). - Review pricing sources, aggregation logic, and back-to-back execution mechanisms. ### 5. Custody & Technology Risk: - Evaluate risk controls around hot/cold wallet segregation, private key management (e.g., Fireblocks), and internal ledger accuracy. - Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to mitigate key threats such as wallet compromise, ransomware, or DDoS attacks. ### 6. Regulatory Risk: - Monitor compliance with SCA’s risk-related requirements (e.g., capital adequacy, outsourcing, incident reporting). - Ensure risk systems, documentation, and controls remain audit-ready and up to date. ### 7. Product Risk: - Perform product risk assessments for new crypto offerings before go-live. - Ensure end-user risk disclosures and internal risk control measures align with regulatory expectations. ## What We’re Looking For ### Required: - Bachelor's degree in Risk Management, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field. - 7+ years of experience in risk management, with at least 3 in crypto, fintech, or capital markets. - Strong understanding of crypto-specific risks, including custody, blockchain analytics, and liquidity sourcing. - Experience working with SCA or other financial regulators in the UAE or GCC. - Knowledge of MiCA, SCA Cat7, and UK MLR2017 risk-related obligations is a plus. ### Preferred: - Risk certifications such as FRM (GARP), PRM, or equivalent. - Exposure to regulatory capital calculations and stress testing methodologies for crypto businesses. - Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST, or other information security frameworks. ## Why Join Us? You’ll be joining a forward-looking crypto venture with the backing of an established group, working on building out compliant and secure infrastructure for digital assets in a regulated environment. The role offers influence at the highest level and a chance to shape risk culture from the ground up. ### What you will get in return: - **Competitive Salary:** We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated. - **Work-Life Harmony:** Join a company that genuinely cares about you - because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock. #LI-Hybrid - **Annual Performance Bonus:** Your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed! Celebrate your achievements with a well-deserved annual bonus tied to your performance. - **Generous Time Off:** Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry. - **Employee Referral Program:** Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team. - **Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits:** From medical insurance to pension plans, we’ve got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks! - **Workation Wonderland:** Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits! - **Volunteer Days:** Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community. Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity.