Android Engineer

The role

You will help build and migrate Zopa's Android app from React Native to native Android, writing in Kotlin. You will work on the shared platform foundations (architecture, shared libraries, tooling, CI/CD) that product teams build on.

What you will do

• Design, build and evolve the Android platform with other native mobile engineers
• Migrate the app from React Native to native Android in Kotlin
• Set best practices for native development and support engineers cross-training into native Android
• Improve performance, robustness and quality by fixing bottlenecks, technical debt and defects
• Work with product managers, designers and backend engineers to deliver features that use native Android capabilities
• Maintain shared architecture, modules, design system, observability, developer tooling and CI/CD

Required qualifications

• Experience building and shipping production Android applications in Kotlin
• Experience publishing apps to the Google Play Store
• Strong understanding of Android frameworks, platform APIs and native app development best practices
• Background working on modern, high-engagement mobile applications with a focus on performance and reliability
• Passion for quality, with a track record of raising engineering standards through design, testing and maintainable code
• Customer-focused, with genuine interest in Zopa's mission

Nice to have

• Experience applying mobile security best practices in production Android applications
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for mobile apps, including build, test and release automation
• Experience collaborating closely with iOS (Swift) and/or React Native engineers in a cross-platform environment

Benefits

• Flexible ways of working
• Work-life balance
• Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to right to work

Before you apply

• Working from abroad is subject to having the right to work in the country of choice
• Behavioural and competency-based interviews: AI use is not permitted
• Technical interviews: AI use depends on the stage; the Talent Partner will say what is expected at each stage

About the company

Zopa started in 2005 as a peer-to-peer lending company and launched Zopa Bank in 2020. The company describes itself as having nearly 50 nationalities and being named in the top three UK's Most Loved Workplaces.