Hello there. We’re Zopa the Feel Good MoneyTM company.
In 2005 we built the first ever peer-to-peer lending company to give
people access to simpler, better-value loans and investments. Since then
we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of customers take the stress out of
money by building our business on honesty, transparency and trust.
It works so well that we want to give our customers access to other
great products and tools, empowering them to better manage their money.
That’s why, in December 2018, we launched a different type of bank,
allowing us to bring a greater range of smart finance products to even
more people.
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, Kafka,
React, React-Native, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, Redis, Babel
just to name a few.
About You
- You love shipping great products, not just writing superb code.
- As an engineer, you’re interested in the problem, not just the requirements.
- You
feel comfortable in a fast-moving environment and are ambitious about
the speed and quality of your code. We ship our code multiple times a
week with the impact measured in the result for the customer, not lines
of code.
- An advocate of test driven development or, even better,
behaviour-driven development. A strong commitment to quality is
essential.
- You've worked on large scale distributed software systems that have proven scalability and complex topologies.
- Enjoy talking to key stakeholders and understand and show passion for the business objectives of the company.
- You like to build new products from scratch; many of our products are the first of its kind in the market.
- You are comfortable with a fair bit of uncertainty, fast change, and love solving hard problems collaboratively.
- You
are a team player who thrives working in an honest and friendly working
atmosphere. We have a flat hierarchy and give you the opportunity to
make a real impact.
- Experience with Kafka and/or a streams-based platform (Samza, Storm) is a plus!
Here are some of the Projects you could expect to be working on:
- Building Open Banking products from scratch. This
ranges from verifying the income and identity of a customer in a few
seconds over assessing credit risk in a new and fairer way to providing
savings and lending insights to customers in our app. This is a nascent
technology where you have the freedom to create products from scratch,
use cutting edge technology and shake up an old industry.
- Personal
Finance Management feature or system. This might be a new way of
verifying income, a budgeting service, or a new API to drive insights
for customers. Whatever it is, you will be heavily involved from
understanding the space and opportunity all the way to developing the
release-ready code and seeing it through to launch and maintenance.
- Building
a new Credit Card billing and statement generation engine, a card
specific origination pipeline or integrating with third party processing
and fraud prevention partners to enable a card that can work seamlessly
and securely. Whatever it is, you will be heavily involved from
understanding the space and opportunity all the way to developing the
release-ready code and seeing it through to launch and maintenance.
- New
micro-services: re-writing specific parts of our previous
infrastructure into the new micro-services communicating through Kafka.
- Building
our own internal services to coordinate how our consumer products (like
loans or savings accounts) can manage sending and receiving money. It
covers a range of payment channels – Faster Payments, Direct Debits,
debit cards to name a few. This comes with plenty of technical
challenges to make sure our services are easy to use, flexible enough to
work for any product, but allow for operational scale: growth in
volumes, growth in the range of products, employing a distributed
architecture, and increasing the variety of payment channels with which
we want to integrate.
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 dignityA
genuine promise that everyone is welcome at Zopa – regardless of age,
disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race or
religionTransparent and informative weekly team meetings on Friday’s afternoons with drinksTo surround you with a group of like-minded Zopians who operate with passion and integrityA tailor-made integration plan to set you up for success and an ongoing focus on your performance and developmentFree tea and coffee throughout the dayFree fresh orange juiceA competitive compensations and benefits package Opportunity to travel to our London officeWe 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.