Staff Engineer job opportunity at Zopa Bank.



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Zopa Bank Staff Engineer
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Engineering,PoS Engineering

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degreeBachelor's (B.Sc.)
loacation Manchester, United Kingdom
loacation Manchester....United Kingdom

Our Story Hello there. We’re Zopa. We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com! We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces. If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalifeThe team: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. This is a unique opportunity to help shape technical culture and capability as we scale up in Manchester. Why join Zopa Manchester?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. We work hybrid, with at least 2 days a week together in our Manchester office. \nA day in the life:Owning and evolving the technical vision for our Point-of-Sale systemsWorking across teams to drive consistency, scalability and architectural alignmentGetting hands-on with code (Kotlin & React) when needed, and enabling others to thriveChampioning engineering best practices - from testing and CI/CD to observability and performanceSupporting engineers with mentorship, pairing and design guidanceCollaborating closely with product managers, designers and other engineering leadsHelping define standards for service architecture, frontend quality, and integration patternsShaping the technical bar and culture of our Manchester engineering hubAbout you: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 \n#LI-CW1At 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 Manchester office 2-3 days a week. (WeWork, Dalton Place, 29 John Dalton Street, M2 6WF.) 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 choiceDiversity StatementZopa 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. 

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