Senior Java & Kotlin Engineer for Fintech Systems

Zopa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 69,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Zopa is hiring for a senior engineering role in London. This permanent hybrid position sits within our Cards Engineering team and involves building scalable distributed services for financial products.

You will partner with stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals in a fast-paced environment. You will contribute to high-quality code delivered frequently, with a strong focus on reliability and customer impact, while continuously learning new technologies and collaborating

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed software systems with proven scalability and complex topologies.

Responsibilities

• Solve real financial problems for millions of customers.
• Work on distributed systems processing thousands of transactions daily.
• Build resilient services that handle customers' money.
• Create experiences that make complex financial products feel simple.
• Ship code multiple times a week and focus on customer impact.
• Collaborate closely to solve hard problems and take operational ownership.

Skills

Distributed systems

Test-driven development

Behaviour-driven development

Stakeholder communication

Fast-moving environment

Team player

Product-focused mindset

Fintech experience

Tools

Kotlin

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS Aurora Postgres

Java

Job description

Zopa is hiring for a senior engineering role in London. This permanent hybrid position sits within our Cards Engineering team and involves building scalable distributed services for financial products.

You will partner with stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals in a fast-paced environment. You will contribute to high-quality code delivered frequently, with a strong focus on reliability and customer impact, while continuously learning new technologies and collaborating