Senior iOS Engineer, Zopa
Swift
1-5 days a week in office
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
Open for applications
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
1-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customer's needs at heart.
Role
Who you are
- We are on a mission to level-up the mobile app and we’re looking for someone to bring deep expertise in native iOS development (with Swift).
- We are looking to further build out our skills in native development and use those to significantly overhaul the app experience.
- You a highly skilled mobile app developer with a track record of creating sophisticated applications using Swift. You have published apps to the Apple Store.
- Strong understanding of iOS frameworks, Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, and native app performance optimisation.
- You have worked on high-engagement and modern apps, with an emphasis on performance and delightful experiences.
- You consider quality as a first class concern and have a proven background in improving quality in previous roles. You have a passion for your craft and doing things “right” (semantics, validity, maintainability…)
- An interest in our mission and strong customer focus.
Desirable
- You've also worked with React Native and have a solid understanding of the differences and trade-offs between this approach and native.
- Knowledge of the app store submission process and best practices for continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD).
- Experience with mobile security best practices.
- Some knowledge of Android development with Kotlin.
What the job involves
- You will join our Mobile Platform team which looks after tech underpinning the app itself: from the app’s architecture, shared capabilities and libraries and experiences, as well as the build and analytics infrastructure
- The team plays an important role as thought leaders in the broader mobile community at Zopa, and generally is responsible for moving our tech forward in that space.
- The company has the vision to become Britain’s best bank and have just launched the Zopa account which is a high touch, mass-market product
- The app is our most important touch point with the customer and it needs to be performant and delightful. We therefore want to invest in the tech of the app.
- The app is today built using React Native but we have found ourselves increasingly leveraging native capabilities (Swift and Kotlin)
- You will report into the Engineering Manager of the Mobile Platform team.
- You will work closely with the Principal Mobile Engineer and Head of Engineering for Mobile.
- You will guide the wider mobile community on the best practices in native development and provide mentorship to engineers.
- You will work on making our app more performant, robust and delightful. You will help us identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs to optimise application performance.
- You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams (designers, product managers, backend developers) to define, design, and implement new features that leverage native capabilities.
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.
As a bank, Zopa has the flexibility to offer much more than loans to their customers, such as their fixed term savings accounts and credit card. Their model is clearly defined, with a focus on lending and saving rather than current accounts - and its investment in its banking license has clearly paid off. The company has recently seen significant investment that will accelerate the growth of its current products as well as support expansion into the business lending space. It has also made its first ever acquisition, of the ‘buy now, pay later’ platform DivideBuy.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
41% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
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
$85.4m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$93.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $905.6m
Company benefits
- Discounted gym membership
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Hybrid & flexible working model
- Health insurance with Vitality
- Generous holiday plus Zopa bank holidays
- 2 volunteer days a year
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance
- Private healthcare from Vitality
- Great deals on Zopa products
- Season ticket loans
- Discretionary unpaid leave
- Games room, meditation room, subsidised yoga classes, football league and more
Company values
- Champion our customers - Whatever your role, you’ll be close to our customers. We care passionately about doing the best for them.
- Help us make 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.
- Walk the talk - Like us, 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.
- Be 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.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Giles Andrews OBE
(Board Member)Independent Non Executive Director at C. Hoare & Co., and at the Bank of Ireland. Chairman of carwow. Board Member at the Innovate Finance FinTech Strategy Group. Previously founded Caverdale Group.
Jaidev
(CEO, not founder)Promoted from within Zopa, previously COO. 12 years of experience at Capital One, including Chief Marketing Officer for UK.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zopa
Jamie Ferguson (Talent Acquisition Advisor)
- 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 90 days a year!
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