Senior Kotlin/Java Backend Engineer – Hybrid (Manchester)

Zopa Bank; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Zopa Bank in Manchester is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services in Kotlin/Java within a modern AWS-based stack. You will influence architectural decisions, mentor peers, and own code quality from development to production.

Join a hybrid team that values collaboration, pragmatic problem solving, and delivering simple experiences for customers in a fast-moving fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Kotlin or Java backend services.
• Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems.
• Strong emphasis on testing, clean code and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run scalable backend systems using Kotlin and AWS.
• Contribute to technical direction and architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and engineers.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar.
• Own your team's code, quality and delivery.
• Operate your services in production across the full SDLC.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Distributed systems

Testing & automation

Code quality

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Zopa Bank in Manchester is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services in Kotlin/Java within a modern AWS-based stack. You will influence architectural decisions, mentor peers, and own code quality from development to production.

Join a hybrid team that values collaboration, pragmatic problem solving, and delivering simple experiences for customers in a fast-moving fintech environment.