- You’re an experienced engineering leader who has led sizeable teams and knows how to build a high-performing organisation through strong Engineering Managers, effective hiring, performance management and people leadership.
- You can demonstrate meaningful improvements to engineering effectiveness across people, technology and ways of working. You use data and metrics to identify opportunities, make decisions and understand whether your changes are having the intended impact.
- You’ve led significant organisational change, taking teams from their current state to a materially better one. You can set a clear direction, build stakeholder buy-in and translate strategy into tangible progress.
- You bring the technical credibility to engage in significant design and architectural decisions. You can process complex information, challenge thinking and make sound judgements, including practical build, buy or partner decisions.
- You know how to build strong partnerships with Product and influence senior stakeholders. You’re comfortable navigating competing priorities and difficult conversations, combining conviction with high EQ and a low-ego approach.
- You’re actively exploring how AI can improve engineering effectiveness and can talk practically about what you’ve tried, what worked, what didn’t and what you learned.
- You’re comfortable operating with significant autonomy, bringing experience and judgement to complex challenges without needing the path laid out for you. You’re naturally curious, adaptable and resilient, and comfortable adjusting course as priorities change.
- Experience within FinTech, lending or another regulated environment would be valuable, as would experience in a technology-first organisation.
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.