Our story
We’re empowering people to FeelGood about their money.
We’re
been on this journey since 2004, when we built the first ever
peer-to-peer lending company to give people access to simpler,
better-value loans and investments. When it comes to money, we think
everyone deserves a fair deal, so since we launched, we’ve helped
hundreds of thousands of customers to take the stress out of money by
building our business on honesty, transparency and trust.
Our
journey’s always evolving and we’re now launching a bank. But a
different type of bank – one that empowers its customers to take control
of their finances and FeelGood about their money.
If
you embrace being challenged beyond the norm, aren’t afraid to think
differently and are motivated by working somewhere you can really make
an impact, you’ll love life here at Zopa.
The Challenge:
Zopa’s
mission is to create a richer life for everyone by making money fair
and simple. We do this by building great financial products, like our
award-winning personal loans and our hugely popular investment products.
These products are underpinned by a business model which means that we
win when the customer wins – unlike many other financial products which
rely on customers making mistakes or being misinformed to make money.
In
2018 we are going a step further, by building the next generation bank
with cutting edge technologies and are looking for talented mid and
senior level Java Software Engineers to work on a major rebuild of our
technical stack. You can choose to be based either in our riverside
London Bridge office or sunny Barcelona!
The Role:
You
will be working in a small, agile and adaptable cross-functional team,
built on the Tribes and Squads model, and utilising Kafka and Kafka
Streams to build a resilient, scalable backbone that powers the growth
of the company. You can expect to interact with stakeholders and key
business users daily. We are big believers in a lean philosophy and
flexibility in implementation, while aiming to achieve stack consistency
and alignment across the board. All of our Java infrastructure is
deployed with Docker/Kubernetes when we need to via CI (Jenkins) and a
completely automated test suite.
Here is some of
the Tech Stack you will be working with: Java 8, Kotlin, Groovy, Kafka,
React, React-Native, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, Redis, Babel
just to name a few.
#LI-OP3
Ok, I’m in. What can Zopa offer me?
· A
relaxed and informal office in Barcelona Sants, full of break out
spaces for collaborative working, and of course the obligatory office
bean bags, which no one can ever get up from with dignity
· A
genuine promise that everyone is welcome at Zopa – regardless of age,
disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race or
religion
· Transparent and informative weekly team meetings on Friday’s afternoons with drinks
· To surround you with a group of like-minded Zopians who operate with passion and integrity
· A tailor-made integration plan to set you up for success and an ongoing focus on your performance and development
· Free tea and coffee throughout the day
· Free fresh orange juice
· A competitive compensations and benefits package
- Opportunity to travel to our London office
· We can’t guarantee it, but we’re always open to a chat about flexible working
We
are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications
from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex,
gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or
belief and marriage and civil partnerships.