Senior Frontend Engineer

Zopa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

London office

Job summary

Zopa is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to shape our web platform. You will build high-performance applications using Next.js, React and TypeScript, influence architecture and drive best practices across teams in London and beyond.

You will own frontend design, contribute to SEO, Core Web Vitals and tooling, mentor engineers, and partner with Product, Design and Marketing to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Hybrid working 2–3 days in London office, with optional abroad days.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building modern web apps using React, TypeScript and Next.js.
• Deep knowledge of frontend architecture and reusable component libraries.
• Experience delivering measurable improvements in performance and accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve customer-facing and internal web apps using Next.js, React, TypeScript and GraphQL.
• Shape frontend platform by driving architecture decisions and reusable components.
• Partner with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams to deliver accessible, high-performing experiences.
• Champion technical SEO, Core Web Vitals and performance optimization.
• Improve reliability via observability, CI/CD and engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and guidance.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

GraphQL

Frontend architecture

Performance optimization

SEO

Job description

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 deliver fast, scalable and accessible experiences that make a real impact.

Role Overview

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you'll help shape the future of our web platform, building high-performance applications with our current frontend ecosystem. You'll influence architecture, drive engineering best practices and solve complex technical challenges while delivering exceptional customer experiences.

This is a hands‑on role with broad technical ownership, spanning technical design, implementation, experimentation, performance optimisation and continuous improvement. You'll also play a key role in advancing our frontend architecture, technical SEO, Core Web Vitals and reusable platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve customer-facing and internal web applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript and GraphQL, delivering scalable solutions across multiple products and business domains.
• Shape the future of our frontend platform by driving architecture decisions, building reusable components and shared libraries, and contributing to our long‑term technical strategy.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams to deliver intuitive, accessible and high-performing user experiences that improve customer outcomes.
• Champion technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, performance and experimentation, using product insights and A/B testing to continuously optimise customer journeys and organic growth.
• Improve the reliability and quality of our platform through observability, monitoring, CI/CD and engineering best practices, proactively identifying issues before they impact customers.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance and knowledge sharing, helping to raise engineering standards and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience building modern, scalable web applications using React, TypeScript and Next.js, with a solid understanding of frontend architecture and reusable component libraries.
• Deep 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.
• Proven ability to deliver measurable improvements in performance, discoverability and user experience, applying web performance best practices, accessibility standards and experimentation/A/B testing.
• Experience collaborating closely with Product, Design, SEO, Content and Marketing teams to translate business and growth objectives into scalable engineering solutions.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, modern software delivery practices and engineering best practices, with a pragmatic approach to balancing technical excellence and business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction, mentor others and drive cross‑functional initiatives.

Additional Experience

• Experience with GraphQL and observability tooling such as Honeycomb or Grafana to build, monitor and maintain reliable production applications.
• Building customer acquisition, conversion and growth‑focused web experiences, ideally within regulated industries or fintech environments.
• Contributing to platform, enabling shared engineering teams, developing scalable tooling and capabilities that improve engineering efficiency across multiple products.

Work arrangement

We value flexible ways of working. 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 chosen country.

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.

AI in interviews

At Zopa, AI is not something we test; it is part of how we work every day. We are a proud partner of Jobs 2030 and expect Zopians to use AI as part of their work. We are transparent about how we think about AI use during our hiring process.

Behavioural and competency‑based interviews: we do not use AI. These conversations are designed to understand you—your experiences, 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.