Senior Java/Kotlin Software Engineer – London

Overview

As a Software Engineer in Cards Engineering at Zopa, you’ll help deliver scalable financial services for millions of customers. You will ship high-impact features in a fast-moving environment, shaping product outcomes and ensuring quality through disciplined testing. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to align engineering work with business goals and customer needs. This role offers hands-on work with modern tech stack and a strong culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work model
• London office 2-3 days per week
• option to work from abroad up to 120 days/year
• flexible working arrangements
• focus on work-life balance
• DE&I commitment

Responsibilities

• Ship high-quality features that impact customers and business outcomes
• Understand business objectives and translate them into technical solutions
• Contribute to rapid, frequent deployments with measurable customer impact
• Advocate for test-driven or behaviour-driven development to ensure quality
• Build and maintain large-scale distributed systems with complex topologies
• Engage with stakeholders to align engineering work with product goals
• Collaborate in a flat, honest, cross-functional team culture
• Own outcomes and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives

Key requirements

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Product-focused engineering mindset
• Test-driven development practices
• Comfort with uncertainty and rapid change
• Collaborative problem-solving skills
• Kotlin
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS Aurora Postgres

• Collaboration
• Stakeholder communication
• Adaptability
• Kotlin
• Kafka
• Kubernetes

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