Staff Engineer, Zopa
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
Posted today
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
501-1000 employees
Posted today
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
- You’ve led large-scale technical initiatives across multiple teams or domains
- You’re a strong Kotlin or Java engineer with experience in modern backend systems
- You’ve worked with React or modern JS frameworks on customer-facing UIs
- You love working across boundaries — connecting dots between teams, codebases, and roadmaps
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-moving, scaling environments
- You bring others with you — explaining technical ideas clearly to both engineers and non-engineers
- You care about building inclusive teams, scalable systems, and great customer experiences
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to help shape the future of our Point of Sale (PoS) products — a core domain at Zopa that connects customers with fair, transparent finance at the checkout
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll play a hands-on technical leadership role across multiple squads
- You’ll own the technical strategy for PoS, enabling us to scale our systems and grow our impact
- From backend Kotlin services to React frontends, you’ll help drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure we’re building things the right way
- We’re building a new tech hub right in the heart of the city — with real backing, big ambition and the support of an established, award-winning company. You’ll help define the technical strategy in a business-critical new engineering chapter in Manchester, and help shape how we grow and build the team from day one
- You’ll work in a product-focused environment where engineers own their work end-to-end, deploy to production frequently, and see the real-world impact of what they build. You’ll also get to work with a modern tech stack: Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Aurora Postgres and more
- Owning and evolving the technical vision for our Point-of-Sale systems
- Working across teams to drive consistency, scalability and architectural alignment
- Getting hands-on with code (Kotlin & React) when needed, and enabling others to thrive
- Championing engineering best practices - from testing and CI/CD to observability and performance
- Supporting engineers with mentorship, pairing and design guidance
- Collaborating closely with product managers, designers and other engineering leads
- Helping define standards for service architecture, frontend quality, and integration patterns
- Shaping the technical bar and culture of our Manchester engineering hub
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
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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
$95.2m
LATE VC
Feb 2023
$100.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $974.6m
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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
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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