Zopa
Finance
AndroidEngineer
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“Android Engineer at Zopa. Skills: Android platform, Kotlin, native Android development, migrating the app from React Native to native Android. design, build, and evolve the Android platform. migrating the app from React Native to native Android, building in Kotlin with architectural foundations and industry best practices”
What You'll Achieve.
create an app experience that is performant, reliable, and delightful to use; raise the bar for mobile engineering across teams
Industry & Context.
identifying bottlenecks; addressing technical debt; resolving defects
working from abroad for up to 120 days a year
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experienced in building and shipping production Android applications in Kotlin, publishing apps to the Google Play Store, understanding of Android frameworks, platform APIs, 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, 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, genuine interest in Zopa’s mission
Nice to Have
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
What You'll Do.
and evolve the Android platform
migrating the app from React Native to native Android
building in Kotlin with architectural foundations and industry best practices
Improve the performance
and overall quality of the app
design and deliver features that fully leverage native Android capabilities
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate closely with other native mobile engineers; Partner with the wider mobile engineering community, including React Native developers; Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and backend engineers
Full Job Description
## Description 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 We’re on a mission to take our mobile app to the next level, and we’re looking for someone to help shape the future of our Android experience in Kotlin. Joining the Mobile Platform team, you’ll work on the technical foundations that power the app — from architecture and shared libraries to core experiences, build systems, and analytics infrastructure. Our team plays a key role in driving innovation across Zopa’s mobile community and shaping the future of our mobile technology. As Zopa continues its ambition to become Britain’s best bank, the mobile app remains our most important customer touchpoint. Following the launch of the Zopa Account — a high-touch, mass-market product — we’re making a significant investment in creating an app experience that is performant, reliable, and delightful to use. While the app today is built with React Native, we are expanding our native capabilities in Swift and Kotlin and are transforming the Android experience with a m
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