- Job Type: Full-Time
- Function: Engineering Software
- Industry: Services
- Post Date: 03/09/2025
- Website: zopa.com
- Company Address: Cottons Centre, Tooley Street, London, United Kingdom, SE1 2QG
About Zopa
We’re Zopa, and we want to make money work better for you.Our diverse team is united in their mission of creating simple, fair and honest financial products that have the customer’s needs at their heart. We’re proud that this dedication is reflected in our excellent rating on TrustPilot.
Job Description
The Current Accounts team have been working hard building a new Current Account product from scratch. Made up of four squads this team have built an innovate product currently being tested by over 35k customers and have big plans to fully launch in summer 2025.
The role:
This is an opportunity to build an entire new product in Zopa Bank’s portfolio. The role will lead all engineering for Current Accounts – from the in-house build of all services to the integration of any third-party vendors. The role will work in collaboration with other engineering peers and be accountable for the delivery and launch of the product, as well as its full integration into the Zopa platform. Experience in the domain of Current Accounts or payments is a big advantage.
You will work directly with other senior roles and stakeholders in the same tribe and across the company, leading a team of Backend Engineers and Mobile Engineers organised in multiple squads (10-15 people and growing). You will be a manager of managers. Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering you will play an important part in shaping the strategy for your area and across the engineering function at Zopa. As well as this, you will be responsible for leading and developing your team, supporting their career, and charting a path for their success. This role will be based 1-2 days a week in our London Bridge office.
The tech:
Zopa uses a modern tech stack to deliver the reliability and performance our customers expect from their bank. The backend stack comprises Kotlin, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Aurora Postgres and Jenkins. We don’t expect you to have expertise in all of these technologies, but you should know enough to make strategic choices and challenge team decisions.
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