Frontend Engineer

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 @zopalife

The team

Our Web Engineering team sits at the heart of Zopa, building the web experiences that power customer acquisition, customer servicing and the internal tools our teams rely on. Working closely with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams, we create fast, scalable and accessible experiences that have a real impact on millions of customers. 

As a Frontend Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and evolving modern web applications using our frontend ecosystem. You'll work alongside experienced engineers who will support your growth, giving you the opportunity to take ownership of features, solve interesting technical challenges and continually develop your skills. 

This is a hands-on role where you'll contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through to performance optimisation, experimentation and continuous improvement. 

A day in the life:

• Build and enhance customer-facing and internal web applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript and GraphQL, delivering features across multiple products and business areas.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams to create intuitive, accessible and high-performing user experiences.
• Contribute to our frontend platform by improving reusable components, shared libraries and engineering best practices that help teams move faster.
• Optimise application performance, reliability and accessibility, using data, experimentation and customer feedback to continuously improve our products.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, CI/CD and observability, helping maintain high engineering standards while learning from experienced teammates.
• Take ownership of your work, proactively identifying opportunities to improve our applications, developer experience and ways of working. 

About You:

• Commercial experience building modern web applications using React, TypeScript and Next.js.
• A solid understanding of frontend engineering principles, including component-based architecture, state management and responsive, accessible UI development.
• Experience working collaboratively with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high-quality customer experiences.
• An interest in writing clean, maintainable code and continuously improving application performance, reliability and developer experience.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including testing, Git, CI/CD and Agile delivery.
• A proactive mindset with a genuine curiosity to learn, solve problems and continue developing as an engineer. 

Added bonus:

• Knowledge of technical SEO, Core Web Vitals and modern rendering strategies (SSR, crawlability, structured data, indexation and semantic HTML), with experience optimising applications for both traditional search engines and AI-powered search.
• Experience with GraphQL and observability tools such as Honeycomb or Grafana.
• Working on customer-facing products within fintech, regulated industries or fast-growing technology businesses.
• Contributing to shared libraries, design systems or platform tooling that helps improve engineering productivity.  #LI-IB1

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.