Frontend Engineer

A day in the life

• Build and enhance customer‑facing and internal web applications using Next.js, React, Type Script and GraphQL, delivering features across multiple products and business areas.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams to create intuitive, accessible and high‑performing user experiences.
• Contribute to our frontend platform by improving reusable components, shared libraries and engineering best practices that help teams move faster.
• Optimize application performance, reliability and accessibility, using data, experimentation and customer feedback to continuously improve our products.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, CI/CD and observability, helping maintain high engineering standards while learning from experienced teammates.
• Take ownership of your work, proactively identifying opportunities to improve our applications, developer experience and ways of working.

• Commercial experience building modern web applications using React, Type Script and Next.js.
• A solid understanding of frontend engineering principles, including component‑based architecture, state management and responsive, accessible UI development.
• Experience working collaboratively with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high‑quality customer experiences.
• An interest in writing clean, maintainable code and continuously improving application performance, reliability and developer experience.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including testing, Git, CI/CD and Agile delivery.
• A proactive mindset with a genuine curiosity to learn, solve problems and continue developing as an engineer.

• Experience with GraphQL and observability tools such as Honeycomb or Grafana.
• Working on customer‑facing products within fintech, regulated industries or fast‑growing technology businesses.
• Contributing to shared libraries, design systems or platform tooling that helps improve engineering productivity.

Hybrid role requiring presence in our London office 2‑3 days a week. Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to having the right to work in the country of choice.

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 DEI 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 DEI is reflected in our hiring process, and please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

At Zopa, AI is part of how we work every day. We’re a proud partner of Jobs 2030, committed to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expect Zopians to use AI as part of their jobs. 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, your judgment, and how you’ve approached real situations. An AI‑generated answer cannot 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.