Platform Engineer, Zopa
Developer Experience
Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
.NET
Java
Go
Kotlin
Terraform
Splunk
Jenkins
Mid and Senior level
London
2-3 days a week in office
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
Posted today
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
501-1000 employees
FintechB2CLendingFinancial Services
Posted today
Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
.NET
Java
Go
Kotlin
Terraform
Splunk
Jenkins
Mid and Senior level
London
2-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
FintechB2CLendingFinancial Services
Company mission
To create simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customer's needs at heart.
Role
Who you are
- Programming Knowledge: You'll spend time writing high-quality Go code to build APIs, CLIs, tools and automation providers, but we are open to anyone with a deep knowledge of a similar language (Java, Kotlin, .Net)
- Platform Visionary: You don’t just "deploy stuff for people"; you build the self-service platforms that allow people to easily deploy stuff for themselves
- CI/CD Specialist: Deep, production-level experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins is essential. You’ve ideally navigated a migration between the two before
- Infrastructure Native: You are a power user of Kubernetes and AWS (including Lambdas). You understand the "why" behind the architecture, not just the "how."
- Proactive Communicator: You are comfortable presenting to stakeholders, writing clear documentation, and acting as the "face" of the DevX team
- The "Product" Mindset: You have experience with measuring success based on quantitate and qualitative metrics (developer sentiment, speed, cost), not by tickets closed
Desirable
- Languages: Advanced-level Go would be ideal but not mandatory. Familiarity with Java, Kotlin, or .NET is a plus
- Orchestration: Advanced Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Terraform
- Tooling: Experience with Vault, Knative, and observability tools like Splunk, and Honeycomb
- Metrics: A track record of using data to drive engineering improvements (Platforms like GetDX or LinearB)
- Experience in high-growth startups or tech-first organizations
- Contributions to open-source DevX or CNCF projects
What the job involves
- Developer Experience (DevX) is the heart of engineering productivity at Zopa. We are a high-impact squad of 6 engineers who treat our internal platform as a product, and our fellow Zopa engineers as our customers
- Our mission is to build the tools that let every product engineer maintain compliance whilst having a world-class expeirence in shipping their code. We are currently starting a landmark project migrating our entire Fintech infrastructure from self-hosted Jenkins to a SaaS-based GitHub Actions platform
- You will work across a modern stack including Go, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault Honeycomb and DX
- A As Senior DevX Engineer, your focus isn't on deploying software for teams, fixing their pipelines, or troubleshooting incidents; you are architecting the future of how Zopa builds software. You will spend 50-80% of your time writing high-quality code to build internal CLI tools, automation providers, and self-service platforms
- The rest of your day is spent as a strategic consultant and leader. You’ll be:
- Architecting the Platform Evolution: Designing the templates and workflows that will move hundreds of microservices onto GitHub Actions
- Stakeholder Engagement: Meeting with product squads to identify friction points and writing technical RFCs to solve them
- Data-Driven Optimization: Analyzing DORA/DX metrics to prove that your tools have increased delivery experience (speed, stability, flow)
- Mentoring: Levelling up our mid-level and associate engineers through pairing and high-standard code reviews
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zopa has been a pioneering force in the world of finance since 2005, lending out billions in personal loans since its inception, before the launch of its bank in 2020. Its depth of lending experience makes it a digital bank with a difference - offering all the benefits customers have come to expect from a challenger bank, but backed up by 16 years of know how.
Zopa has carved out a strong position for itself in UK fintech, offering more than just loans with products like savings accounts and credit cards. And its clear focus on lending and saving has paid off, with recent investment fueling both product growth and its entry into business lending. The bank also made its first acquisition, snapping up 'buy now, pay later' platform DivideBuy, as part of its expansion strategy.
On top of that, Zopa is now boasting two consecutive years of profit doubling, a rare feat in digital banking. Backed by fresh funding, it's now pushing into new territory with plans to launch a current account and integrate generative AI into customer services.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
10 people
Jamal Ud-Din, Product Manager
Our mission
Building the world's best credit card!Insights
Top investors
Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
"My colleagues here at Zopa have a wealth of knowledge which they share constantly and are always willing to assist or give a second opinion on..."
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Dec 2024
$96.8m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$101.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $984.1m
Company benefits
- 2-3 days a week in the office. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance.
- You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one (*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice)
- On top of regular bank holidays, you’ll get 25 days holiday as standard, rising up to 30 days as your tenure grows. For any teams that operate on a bank holiday, you may be offered an alternative day off.
- As a Zopian, you can opt into our private medical insurance through Vitality Health. This’ll give you access to private medical care, discounted gym memberships, and other rewards such as savings at various retailers for maintaining an active lifestyle. You also get free Headspace access to help with the all-important mindfulness we need
- 16-weeks full pay for all new parents. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay to employees wishing to start a family. New parents, including those adopting, are eligible to take up to 16-weeks leave at full pay.
Company values
- Customer Champion: Whatever the role, the customer is front and centre of our thinking. We care passionately about doing the best for them.
- Fearless Choices: Our environment is fast-paced, agile and open. You'll solve interesting and challenging problems and be trusted and empowered to bring your ideas to life.
- In It Together: You'll join an ambitious, diverse and all round approachable team with a mix of ideas and talents who inspire each other to be better every day.
- Walk The Talk: You'll be honest, stick to your promises and face the tough moments head on.
- Win smarter: You'll be always on the lookout for a better way of doing things, going beyond "good enough" and welcoming different points of view.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jaidev
(CEO)Promoted from within Zopa, previously COO. 12 years of experience at Capital One, including Chief Marketing Officer for UK.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zopa
- We're always looking for passionate and talented people who can help us be the best place for money. We welcome everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race or religion.
- We run a successful mentoring program, with 28 mentors across the business. We believe this launching pad helps our internal talent stretch beyond their comfort zone, explore new avenues and grow into future leaders.
- We’re focused on ensuring a fair approach to attracting talent, from how we advertise roles to our application and interview process. For all our hiring requirements we mandate 50/50 shortlists and diverse interview panels. We also run all our adverts through a recognised gender de-coder to ensure we attract and hire a diverse range of people. More recently we’ve been experimenting with new job boards and partnerships like Otta Jobs and BYP Network (Black Youth Partnership Network) to increase diversity in our candidate sourcing.
- We’ve secured trail-blazing partnerships with organisations like Code First Girls, YSYS and BYP Network. We’ve already had huge success with our Code First Girls cohort who joined our tech community as Software Engineers and Database Administrators in January.
- We encourage Zopians to create memorable career journeys, and internal mobility plays a huge part in this. All our live job vacancies are posted on our internal jobs board. Over the last 12 months, we’ve trained and supported many Zopians to make internal career moves and become compliance officers, developers, lawyers and HR specialists. In fact, 20% of our open roles in Q3 2021 were filled by internal candidates. This not only makes Zopa a great place to work, but also allows us to break down some of the systemic pipeline issues that we see in STEM professions.
- Our Diversity & Inclusion focus groups and “All in” club celebrate diversity through various company events, such as quiz nights and “Bring your kids to work” day – our favourite is international food night!
- Everyone at Zopa has different working styles, and we want to support them in any way possible. That’s why we’re committed to flexible working whether that’s from home, in the office or a combination of both. What’s more, our model includes the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!
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