Senior Frontend Engineer

The team

Our Web Engineering team sits at the heart of Zopa, building the web experiences that power customer acquisition, customer servicing and the internal tools our teams rely on. Working closely with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams, we deliver fast, scalable and accessible experiences that make a real impact.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you'll help shape the future of our web platform, building high-performance applications with our current frontend ecosystem. You'll influence architecture, drive engineering best practices and solve complex technical challenges while delivering exceptional customer experiences.

This is a hands‑on role with broad technical ownership, spanning technical design, implementation, experimentation, performance optimisation and continuous improvement. You'll also play a key role in advancing our frontend architecture, technical SEO, Core Web Vitals and reusable platform capabilities.

• Build and evolve customer-facing and internal web applications using Next.js, React, Type Script and GraphQL, delivering scalable solutions across multiple products and business domains.
• Shape the future of our frontend platform by driving architecture decisions, building reusable components and shared libraries, and contributing to our long‑term technical strategy.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams to deliver intuitive, accessible and high-performing user experiences that improve customer outcomes.
• Champion technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, performance and experimentation, using product insights and A/B testing to continuously optimise customer journeys and organic growth.
• Improve the reliability and quality of our platform through observability, monitoring, CI/CD and engineering best practices, proactively identifying issues before they impact customers.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance and knowledge sharing, helping to raise engineering standards and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Strong commercial experience building modern, scalable web applications using React, Type Script and Next.js, with a solid understanding of frontend architecture and reusable component libraries.
• Deep knowledge of technical SEO, Core Web Vitals and modern rendering strategies (SSR, crawlability, structured data, indexation and semantic HTML), with experience optimising applications for both traditional search engines and AI‑powered search.
• Proven ability to deliver measurable improvements in performance, discoverability and user experience, applying web performance best practices, accessibility standards and experimentation/A/B testing.
• Experience collaborating closely with Product, Design, SEO, Content and Marketing teams to translate business and growth objectives into scalable engineering solutions.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, modern software delivery practices and engineering best practices, with a pragmatic approach to balancing technical excellence and business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction, mentor others and drive cross‑functional initiatives.

• Experience with GraphQL and observability tooling such as Honeycomb or Grafana to build, monitor and maintain reliable production applications.
• Building customer acquisition, conversion and growth‑focused web experiences, ideally within regulated industries or fintech environments.
• Contributing to platform, enabling shared engineering teams, developing scalable tooling and capabilities that improve engineering efficiency across multiple products.

We value flexible ways of working. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2‑3 days a week. You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to having the right to work in the chosen country.

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