• Join Zopa, the UK digital bank that built the world’s first peer-to-peer lending company, in a permanent hybrid role in London.
• Lead teams of talented engineers working on products used by millions of customers.
• Shape how your people grow and raise the bar for how the team delivers, not just what it ships.
• Join one of several growing tribes, including Current Account, Product Enablement and Operational Efficiency.
• Work closely with Product to plan ahead, navigate trade-offs and tackle challenges early.
• Join a supportive community of Engineering Managers who care about people, impact and continuous improvement.
• Spend a minimum of three days a week in the London office.
📋 Job Requirements
• Bring proven experience as an Engineering Manager.
• Own outcomes and lead confidently through uncertainty.
• Work with minimal direction while helping others find clarity and focus.
• Challenge ideas and influence decisions while staying open to changing your mind.
• Reflect openly on mistakes and use the insight to improve.
• Show proven experience supporting engineers’ development, performance and progression.
• Keep a strong technical bar, with experience building, running and improving production systems.
• Treat quality as a first-class concern across the software development lifecycle.
• Communicate clearly and empathetically with engineers, product partners and stakeholders.
• Commute to the London office at least three days a week.
🌟 Nice-to-have
• Bring experience leading engineering teams in banking, fintech or another regulated industry.
• Show experience driving change beyond formal authority by building coalitions across functions.
• Bring experience using customer feedback and service data to improve quality and reliability.
• Show experience working on current account or operational efficiency products.
🎯 Responsibilities
• Lead and develop a team of engineers building products used by millions of customers.
• Partner with Product and other teams to plan ahead, navigate trade-offs and resolve challenges early.
• Drive change across functions by building coalitions and using insight and influence.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous situations by making decisions and setting priorities.
• Use customer feedback and service data to spot opportunities and improve quality and reliability.
• Help your team deliver confidently through complexity.
• Maintain and evolve a culture where both people and products thrive.
About Zopa
😃 What Zopa offers
• Work in a hybrid setup based in the London office.
• Work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to having the right to work in that country.
• Enjoy a culture that values good work-life balance and flexible ways of working.
• Get everything you need to thrive at work and at home from day one.
• Join one of the UK’s top three Most Loved Workplaces.
• Meet people across the business during interviews to find the team where you’ll have the most impact.
• Get assessed on mindset, judgement and potential as well as experience.
• Request reasonable adjustments during the hiring process.
💖 What makes Zopa unique
Zopa launched in 2005 as the world’s first peer-to-peer lending company and went on to launch Zopa Bank in 2020. The bank sets out to do the opposite of what customers dislike about traditional finance, putting people at the centre of its products. Zopa has won multiple industry awards, employs people from nearly 50 nationalities, and has been named among the UK’s top three Most Loved Workplaces.
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