Frontend Engineer

Zopa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Zopa is hiring a frontend engineer to build customer-facing and internal web apps using Next.js, React, TypeScript and GraphQL. You will collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams to deliver accessible, high-performing experiences.

You will contribute to the frontend platform by reusable components, improving performance and developer experience, participate in reviews, CI/CD, and help raise engineering standards in a fast-growing fintech.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience building modern web apps with React, TypeScript and Next.js.
• Solid understanding of frontend engineering: component-based architecture, state management, responsive accessible UI development.
• Experience collaborating with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high-quality customer experiences.
• 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.
• Proactive mindset with a genuine curiosity to learn, solve problems and continue developing as an engineer.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance customer-facing and internal web applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript and GraphQL.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams to create intuitive, accessible and high-performing user experiences.
• Contribute to the 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.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Frontend architecture

UI collaboration

Git

CI/CD

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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 the 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Additional Experience

• 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.

Benefits

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 (subject to having the right to work in the country of choice). No matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve everything you need to thrive both in your work and home life from day one.

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.