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, Copper's 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 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.
Why an internship at Copper?
"At Copper, the summer internship is a gateway into blockchain technology and the finance industry. During these two months, you'll tackle real challenges, receive genuine mentorship, and make a meaningful impact from day one."
— Marketing Intern
“Copper is a great place to work, it's like traditional finance but with the fast paced, exciting buzz that the crypto markets bring.
I learnt so much during my internship at copper, your voice really feels heard and you really feel like you are making a difference. I would definitely recommend to anyone who is looking to kickstart a career in fintech.”
— Finance Intern
Department environment
This role provides the opportunity to work closely with two departments, spending four weeks in each:
Information Security
Copper’s Information Security department keep the business’ systems and network resources secure and protect the company, employees, and client data.
Technology Operations
Technology Operations is responsible for the management and technical support of our corporate and product platforms and infrastructure. We play a critical role guiding and supporting the engineering functions to deliver critical strategic technology initiatives, programs, and large projects across the division. We provide major incident management and empower the business and engineering functions with the data and insights they need to make critical infrastructure decisions.
Role Purpose
We’re looking for a talented individual to join our Technical team for an unforgettable 8-week internship. As one of our interns, you will bring your own unique perspective as a learner, together with your academic knowledge, technical skills, and enthusiasm, and will gain a comprehensive introduction to our business.
Information Security
You will have the opportunity to work across our security teams, gaining comprehensive exposure to various aspects of information security, you will be given a small discrete project to complete, and get a unique opportunity to shadow, and contribute to activities. This role provides an exceptional insight into this exciting field of cybersecurity, offering hands-on experience across infrastructure security, application security, and security architecture at a leading cryptocurrency technology firm.
Technology Operations
You will have the opportunity to work across our technology operations team, gaining exposure to platform management and project delivery. This role provides insight into enterprise infrastructure management, offering hands-on experience across system administration, service management, and technical project coordination
Key Responsibilities of the role
Information Security
You will work closely with our Information Security team, gaining comprehensive exposure to enterprise security operations. Your experience will include:
- Leading a technical mini-project focused on security tool integration or threat intelligence enrichment
- Managing the project lifecycle from requirements gathering through to implementation
- Shadowing security analysts in their daily operations across:
- SIEM platform monitoring and alert triage
- Security control implementation and testing
- Threat intelligence analysis
Technology Operations
You will have the opportunity to work alongside our Technology Operations team, gaining hands-on experience in project delivery and technical operations. As an intern, you will:
- Support the delivery of strategic technology initiatives by acting as a project coordinator for a discrete technical project.
- Assist in creating and maintaining project documentation, timelines, and status reports.
- Shadow senior team members in platform and infrastructure management activities.
- Contribute to technical support processes and incident management.
- Help analyse and report on infrastructure performance metrics.
- Participate in cross-functional team meetings and planning sessions.
- Learn about enterprise technology operations in a fast-paced fintech environment.
Your experience, skills and knowledge
Essential
- Currently in your second year at university or a year before graduation, completing a Technical Degree (BSc Cyber Security, Data Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science etc.= with expected 2:1 or above.
- Learning technical skills related to the industry.
- Strong organisational skills.
- High sense of responsibility and confidentiality.
- Confidence and enthusiasm when sharing ideas internally.
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the Fintech industry.
About the internship
Successful candidates will spend 8 weeks working with our Technology team in the summer months. In this time you will gain:
- Hands-on experience in a supportive and collaborative environment.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Mentorship from experienced Technology professionals.
- A chance to make a meaningful impact on our security and operations processes.
Some more information about the opportunity:
- £14 per hour
- Monday 7th July until Friday 29th August
- Opportunity to learn from experienced professionals
- Fantastic London head office working environment – Soho, Blockchain House
- 5 days on-site, 9am until 6pm
- Application deadline - Friday 28th February 2025
- Intern Assessment day – Wednesday 30th April 2025
Benefits
- Pension contribution by Copper
- Unmind access
- Breakfast and office refreshments
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.
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.
