A day in the life:
- Report to the Engineering Manager for the Mobile Platform team.
- Collaborate closely with other native mobile engineers to design, build, and evolve the Android platform.
- Play a key role in migrating the app from React Native to native Android, building in Kotlin with strong architectural foundations and industry best practices.
- Partner with the wider mobile engineering community, including React Native developers, to define best practices for native development and support engineers cross-training into native Android.
- Improve the performance, robustness, and overall quality of the app by identifying bottlenecks, addressing technical debt, and resolving defects to optimise the user experience.
- Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to design and deliver features that fully leverage native Android capabilities.
About you:
- Experienced in building and shipping production Android applications in Kotlin, including publishing apps to the Google Play Store.
- Strong understanding of Android frameworks, platform APIs, and native app development best practices.
- Background working on modern, high-engagement mobile applications with a focus on performance, reliability, and delivering exceptional user experiences.
- Passionate about quality, with a track record of raising engineering standards through thoughtful design, testing, and maintainable code.
- Motivated by opportunities to create broad impact through better processes, tooling, and automation that raise the bar for mobile engineering across teams.
- Customer-focused, with a genuine interest in Zopa’s mission.
Added bonus:
- Experience applying mobile security best practices in production Android applications.
- Working with CI/CD pipelines for mobile apps, including build, test, and release automation.
- Experience collaborating closely with iOS (Swift) and/or React Native engineers in a cross-platform mobile environment.
At Zopa we value flexible ways of working.
We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week.
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
Diversity Statement
Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.
Our approach to AI in interviews
At Zopa, AI isn't something we're testing out — it's part of how we work every day. As a proud partner of Jobs 2030, we're committed to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expect Zopians to use AI as part of how they do their jobs.
Because of that, we want to be transparent about how we think about AI use during our hiring process.
Behavioural and competency-based interviews: please don't use AI. These conversations are designed to understand you — your experiences, your judgment, and how you've approached real situations. An AI-generated answer can't tell us that. What it can do is get in the way of us finding out whether we're the right fit for each other.
Technical interviews: it depends on the role. Some technical stages actively welcome AI use, others don't. Your Talent Partner will let you know what's expected at each stage. Where AI is part of the assessment, we'll be interested not just in the outcome, but in how you used it – the tools you chose, your reasoning, and the decisions you made along the way.
Skills Required
- Experience building and shipping production Android applications in Kotlin
- Strong understanding of Android frameworks and native app development best practices
- Background in modern, high-engagement mobile applications
- Passionate about quality and raising engineering standards
What We Do
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. We’ve always been unapologetically honest with our customers, and value the same in return. Their feedback helps us shape what we build, so we can provide a bank fit for today, and for the future. We’re not the new kids on the block though - we’ve been a pioneering force in finance for 16 years. In 2005, we built the first ever peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company, giving our customers access to loans built for real-life and intelligent investments backed by cutting-edge tech. In 2020, we launched Zopa Bank, meaning we could offer more – like fixed term savings backed by FSCS protection and a credit card to help customers take control of their finances. We’ve lent out over £6 billion and are proud to have made money work better for over half a million people across the UK, whether they were looking to borrow or save.
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