Mobile Engineering Manager, Zopa
2+ days a week in office (London Bridge, UK)
Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
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Financial solutions for borrowers and savers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office (London Bridge, UK)
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
- Importantly, you are experienced leading mobile engineering teams and owning mobile applications
- You thrive in successfully executing high-profile, strategic projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Enjoy owning and solving problems and able to create structure out of ambiguity, think about problems holistically and can drive an agenda while juggling multiple demands.
- Are passionate about creating impact through empowering others and believe in supportive and humble leadership.
- You are self-driven, ambitious and outcome focused. You chart a path for others rather than follow one.
- You stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in mobile to ensure our solutions remain cutting-edge. You are passionate about technology and using it as a tool to provide great customer experiences. You must be comfortable being accountable for the quality of the technology built by your teams.
- You are empathetic with strong relationship building skills and can communicate clearly and succinctly across a broad range of stakeholders throughout the software development process, managing expectations as you go
Desirable
- Have experience working in a regulated environment to ensure that customer interests are always prioritised
What the job involves
- We are on a mission to level-up the mobile app.
- 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 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
- It is a pillar for the technical strategy at Zopa and this team will play a prominent role at the heart of that strategy. The app is today built using React Native but increasingly we are leveraging native capabilities (Swift and Kotlin) to significantly overhaul the app experience
- You will report into the Head of Engineering of Mobile.
- You will manage the engineers in the Mobile Platform team and be responsible for motivating the team and holding the right bar on performance and drive quality across all stages of the SDLC.
- This is a leadership role that requires a balance of technical acumen, project management skills, and a proven ability to deliver complex high profile strategic projects at scale.
- You will work closely with Principal Engineer in Mobile, as well as the entire mobile community, to execute the technical strategy for the mobile app itself and to improve how it is built, distributed and observed.
- You will communicate with stakeholders (technical and otherwise) and bring product teams closer together. Some of your stakeholders will be the most senior members of the business.
- This role will be hybrid, coming into our London Bridge office at least 2 days a week
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
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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 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$94.8m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$278m
LATE VC
Total funding: $832m
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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