Principal EDA Engineer

Principal Product Manager – Upstream (Mortgages) At ClearScore we’re on a mission to help people achieve greater financial wellbeing. Within our Upstream mission, we focus on shaping and scaling new propositions that unlock meaningful value for our users. A pathway to homeownership is a key milestone in our users’ journey to financial wellbeing. We’re expanding our product team to support our global strategy in homeownership and mortgages. As a Principal Product Manager working in our newly formed Upstream Mortgages team, you will hold responsibility for the viability and roadmap direction of this emerging vertical within the ClearScore ecosystem. Reporting into the VP, Global Product, you will be central to shaping our Mortgages vertical — building on strong early foundations while evolving and extending the proposition from first principles where needed. You will define roadmap content and sequencing, make clear trade-offs across user experience, commercial opportunity and build complexity, and ensure the proposition delivers sustainable value to our users and partners. You’ll operate within a shared leadership model alongside a senior Design Lead, jointly guiding a cross-functional team spanning Product, Design, Engineering and Data. While you will not have direct line management responsibility, you will play a central role in setting priorities, structuring work and driving clarity of decision-making across the team. This is a high-impact role at the centre of bringing a complex new vertical to market, shaping how ClearScore shows up in one of the most important moments in our users’ financial lives. It requires strong product judgement, commercial awareness and the confidence to make well-reasoned decisions in a multi-stakeholder environment. What you will be doing: * Build on existing strategic thinking, identifying clear paths to user, partner and business value and shaping the proposition’s continued evolution. * Develop and maintain deep expertise in the homeownership and mortgages landscape, building strong external awareness across partners, regulation and industry trends to inform product direction. * Own the global roadmap for the homeownership and mortgages proposition, defining priorities and sequencing to ensure long-term viability and coherence in line with overall strategy. * Lead structured product discovery to validate desirability, viability and feasibility, using qualitative insight, quantitative data and commercial understanding to inform decisions. * Make clear, balanced trade-offs between user experience, commercial constraints and technical complexity, ensuring focused and coherent progress. * Partner closely with Design to deliver a compelling, simple and user-centred experience within a complex domain. * Collaborate with Commercial and Data stakeholders to ensure the proposition is grounded in market dynamics, partner realities and measurable outcomes, while retaining clear accountability for product direction. * Structure ambiguous problem spaces into clear work-streams, guiding and elevating work across the team — including elevating the quality of thinking and execution across more junior Product colleagues. * Drive momentum and decision-making, ensuring stakeholders are meaningfully engaged throughout the innovation lifecycle.   Skills we'd love you to have * You know what good Product Management looks like and are comfortable owning meaningful proposition-level problem spaces within an established strategic direction. * You have demonstrated experience shaping new propositions from first principles, not only optimising existing products. * You are confident shaping roadmap direction and making clear trade-offs across competing constraints. * You are commercially aware and think in terms of value exchange, incentives and long-term proposition coherence — not just feature delivery. * You are comfortable operating within a shared leadership model, partnering closely with senior Design while retaining clear accountability for product viability. * You bring clarity to complex discussions and are able to move from alignment to decision — making well-reasoned calls even when consensus is incomplete. * You are intellectually confident and willing to challenge existing thinking constructively where evidence or judgement suggests a better path. * You combine structured discovery with strong product intuition, balancing rigour with momentum and knowing the fastest routes to validate key hypotheses. * Experience in mortgages or adjacent regulated financial products is highly desirable, though strong product craft and ClearScore ecosystem understanding may compensate.   Why ClearScore? ClearScore is the UK's #1 credit score and report app. We are also present in South Africa, Australia and Canada, with more than 20 million users globally and growing fast. Someone joins ClearScore every 20 seconds. We have established relationships with over 50 of the main lenders in the U.K., and have been a trusted tool for customers to manage their credit and make better financial decisions. Since October 2016 we have helped 1.8 million users take out a new credit card or loan. We are user-centric at our core and we believe in leveraging technology to enable positive financial choices. We are design-led and data-driven and we embed these behaviours in everything we do. Our company culture is a fundamental part of all we have achieved. We believe in hiring smart, driven, passionate and diverse people who are keen on having a real impact in our organisation. We trust you to manage your own time so we offer flexible work and no fixed desk hours. We don't micromanage and we believe in measuring outcomes rather than effort. We have an inclusive culture where all, regardless of seniority, are encouraged to contribute with their ideas, look after their wellbeing and actively seek opportunities for career growth. If you feel like this could be the place for you, apply and our Talent team will be happy to share more. Benefits: * 25 paid holidays and a “duvet day” on your birthday * Hybrid Work Environment * Private health and dental cover - including mental health support through Bupa  * GP office visits * Life assurance scheme * Up to 6% matched pension * Regular Lunch and Learns with guest speakers * Dog-friendly office * Daily breakfast and free snacks * Access to discounts via Cobens Extras  * Free sports and social clubs * Continued investment into learning and development  * Leadership-led training * In-house psychotherapist * Financial coach to help you plan and achieve your goals * No clock-watching culture * Generous maternity and paternity plans * Culture and inclusion representatives * Transparent pay structure and a career growth plan   Equal Opportunities ClearScore is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. As an equal opportunity employer, we are able to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate individuals with disabilities during the recruitment and selection process. If you require accommodation, please inform us in advance, and we will work with you to meet your needs. Our Hybrid Model   We embrace a dynamic hybrid work environment that balances flexibility with collaborative in-person experiences. Our approach is designed to foster innovation, team connection, and individual productivity. * Levels 1-5: Minimum 2 days per week in-office * Level 6 and above: Minimum 3 days per week in-office We believe this structure offers the best of both worlds - the flexibility of remote work and the synergy of face-to-face collaboration. Our office days are carefully coordinated to maximise team interactions and learning/ mentorship opportunities. What This Means for You: * Flexibility to manage your work and life * Dedicated in-office days for team building and collaborative projects *  Office facilities (with plants!) designed for productive interactions * Clear expectations and support for maintaining our hybrid schedule We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that accommodates diverse needs while maintaining our collaborative culture. Join us in shaping the future of work! Note: While we offer flexibility, commitment to our hybrid schedule is an important aspect of our team culture and performance expectations.     Inclusion Policy We are always looking for talented individuals to join ClearScore. We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people. Please see our People Policy Notice at https://www.clearscore.com/people-notice.

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. Department/Team Purpose:  Copper provides institutional digital asset custody, settlement, and collateral management services across a wide range of blockchains and integrated venues. Information Security protects the firm's platforms, client assets, and regulated entities across the group. Role Purpose:  The Principal Security Architect is the senior technical authority for security architecture at Copper. The role reports to the CISO and partners closely with Engineering. The holder sets architectural direction, reviews and approves designs for major change, and acts as the firm's reference point on the security of the systems, protocols, and integrations Copper depends on. The role is predominantly architecture and assurance, with limited hands-on solution design in the cloud and integration space where reference patterns are needed. Key Responsibilities:   Architectural authority * Hold formal security sign-off authority for major changes to Copper's platforms, infrastructure, and integrations. * Shape and maintain the security architecture patterns, principles, and reference designs that engineering teams build against. * Provide the senior technical security position in architectural and business decisions, including escalations where security and delivery pressures conflict. Custody, signing, and cryptographic architecture  * Provide architectural security leadership over Copper's signing infrastructure, working alongside specialist engineering and cryptography teams. Scope covers the people, process, and operational design around MPC-based signing. Solid conceptual grounding in threshold cryptography and signature schemes is required; cryptographer-level work is not. * Review and approve changes to transaction construction, signing flows, approval policy, and key lifecycle operations. * Provide architectural assurance over chain-of-trust constructs adjacent to custody, including verifiable build pipelines, hardware-backed code signing, and authenticator-bound administrative paths. Multi-chain and integration security * Reason at architectural depth across the range of blockchains Copper supports, including EVM, UTXO, and account-based non-EVM families. This requires a working understanding of transaction construction, signing semantics, consensus assumptions, and validator and staking models across these environments, without being a protocol engineer in any of them. * Assess third-party smart contract architectures, implementations, and audit reports to a level sufficient to understand the exploit and risk surface, without performing line-by-line code review. * Review first-party integrations with partner networks, including those underpinning staking and similar on-chain participation, and form a defensible security position on the operational and contract risk Copper inherits. Settlement, collateral, and off-exchange architecture * Provide architectural ownership of the security model for Copper's settlement, collateral mirroring, and off-exchange product surfaces. * Reason about the trust boundaries between Copper, venues, and clients, and ensure architectural controls match the obligations each side carries. Identity and access architecture * Own identity and access architecture as a dedicated pillar of the role. * Set patterns for workforce, workload, and third-party identity across Entra ID, federated SSO, OAuth2 / OIDC, SAML, and modern authenticators. * Govern entitlement design, privileged access, and access models for contractors, vendors, and external operators. Cloud and platform security * Maintain working architectural fluency in both AWS and Azure, including network topology, segmentation, secrets handling, and platform telemetry. * Produce reference patterns and, where needed, direct integration designs in the cloud and platform space. Third-party and protocol risk * Lead technical security review of vendors, integrated venues, and protocols, including challenge of assurances that do not stand up to scrutiny. * Support client and counterparty due diligence on the technical content most likely to be misrepresented or under-specified. Policy, regulatory, and assurance support * Maintain a working understanding of the regulatory regimes applicable to Copper's licensed entities sufficient to translate architectural decisions into language Compliance and GRC can defend. Primary ownership of regulatory positioning sits elsewhere.  * Contribute to security policy, standards, and control framework development as the senior technical reviewer. * Participate in resilience exercises and incident reviews where architectural input materially shapes the outcome. Skills and Experience:  Essential   * Multi-chain architectural literacy. Able to reason across EVM, UTXO, and non-EVM account-based chains at the level of transaction construction, signing, consensus, and validator models. Comfortable assessing third-party smart contract designs, implementations, and audit reports for exploit and risk surface without performing code review. * Custody and signing architecture. Strong conceptual grasp of threshold signing, signature schemes, and key lifecycle. Able to design and challenge the operational architecture around signing, separation of duties, approval policy, key ceremony equivalents in MPC, and recovery, to a high standard. * Settlement and collateral architecture. Demonstrable experience reasoning about settlement, collateral, and off-exchange constructs, including trust boundaries between custodians, venues, and clients. * Identity and access architecture. Senior-level experience designing and governing identity across Entra ID, federated SSO, OAuth2 / OIDC, SAML, and modern authenticators. Comfortable with entitlement governance and third-party access design. * Cloud security. Working architectural understanding of AWS and Azure, including the ability to produce reference patterns and limited direct integration designs. * Architectural authority and judgement. Track record of holding sign-off on significant designs, taking defensible positions under uncertainty, and owning residual risk. * Change review and assurance. Comfortable reviewing the work of engineering peers, infrastructure changes, and vendor designs, and able to hold the line where it matters. * Communication. Able to operate credibly with engineers, senior business stakeholders, auditors, and regulators in the same week, without losing precision at any of them. Desirable   * Familiarity with chain-of-trust constructs including verifiable builds, reproducible build pipelines, and hardware-backed code signing. * Awareness of the regulatory landscape relevant to digital asset custody and trading (for example FCA, FINMA, FSRA / ADGM, MiCA). * Compliance familiarity across ISO 27001, SOC 2, and NIST CSF / 800-53, with the ability to map controls cleanly between them. * Enterprise architecture grounding (TOGAF, SABSA) where it complements rather than replaces technical depth. Why Copper?   At Copper, we keep innovation, openness, and curiosity at the centre of everything we do. Here, bold ideas get the spotlight, learning is constant, and diversity shapes our team from the ground up. Jump into a fast-moving, dynamic team that loves a challenge and knows how to have fun along the way. Collaboration is just as important as results—you’ll be surrounded by smart, driven colleagues in London and across our APAC, Switzerland, UAE, and US offices. Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the adaptability of flexibly working. Diversity and inclusion matter to us – they’re woven into Copper life. From employee-led groups like Women at Copper to a committee focused on community and wellbeing, you’ll have a network that supports you from day one. Everyone voice matters. If you’re looking to ramp up your career, or keen to do something new in your field, with us, you’ll keep moving forward. Ready to make your mark, keep growing, and join a supportive, dynamic team? Copper’s the place. The interview process at Copper   Our interview process is designed to be thoughtful, efficient, and engaging. While specific steps may vary slightly depending on the role, the typical journey includes: 1. Initial Screening A brief conversation with our Talent Acquisition team to explore your background, motivations, and alignment with the role. 2. Technical Interview A virtual session conducted via Microsoft Teams, where you'll engage with team members to discuss relevant skills, problem-solving approaches, and technical experience. 3. In-Person Interview A conversation focused on team dynamics, collaboration style, and any final technical questions. This may be with cross-functional peers or leadership. Additional steps may be added based on the role's complexity or seniority. We aim to keep the process transparent and respectful of your time. Benefits  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. Some of our key UK benefits are highlighted below:  * Paid Time Off - A minimum of 35 days of paid time off per year, inclusive of annual leave and public holidays. Employees also receive one additional day of annual leave for each year of service. * Comprehensive Medical Insurance - Inclusive of dental, optical, audiology, and mental health coverage, with medical history disregarded * Life Insurance * Enhanced Pension Contributions - Includes an enhanced employer matching contribution * 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) 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.