Senior iOS; Swift) Engineer

Our Story

Hello there. We’re Zopa.

We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward.

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We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.

If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count.

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About the team

We are a mobile-first bank, and our iOS app is a critical part of how customers experience Zopa.
Having recently completed our migration to fully native mobile, we are now focused on making our iOS platform exceptional: fast, reliable, accessible and easy for engineers to build on.
You’ll join our Mobile Platform team, which owns the shared capabilities that underpin the app, including architecture, shared modules, design system, observability, developer tooling and CI/CD.

The team’s role is not to own all technical decisions. It is to help shape the direction of mobile engineering at Zopa, create great developer experiences for our product teams, and make it easier for engineers to focus on customer problems rather than underlying technical complexity.

You’ll also be part of a strong iOS engineering community, contributing to standards, sharing knowledge and helping us continue to mature our native engineering practice.

• Partner closely with the Engineering Manager, Principal Mobile Engineer and Head of Mobile Engineering to deliver Zopa’s mobile strategy.
• Help shape the technical direction and standards for iOS across Zopa.
• Design and evolve shared modules, APIs, architecture and developer tooling that enable multiple teams to build and ship with confidence.
• Identify technical risks early, using data, profiling and observability to improve performance, reliability and developer experience.
• Stay highly hands-on, delivering production-quality Swift and SwiftUI code across platform and customer-facing product work.
• Raise the capability of other engineers through pairing, code reviews, technical discussions and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Backend and Android colleagues to make well-rounded decisions, influence direction and respect each discipline’s expertise.

• Strong experience building and maintaining customer-facing iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI.
• Deep knowledge of iOS development, including concurrency, performance, memory management, testing, accessibility and security.
• Sound architectural and API-design judgement, with a focus on simple, maintainable solutions and an excellent developer experience.
• A proactive engineer who identifies problems, shapes practical solutions and influences improvements beyond their immediate team.
• A collaborative teammate who raises the capability of others through coaching, pairing and knowledge sharing.
• Comfortable constructively challenging ideas, while remaining open-minded and willing to change course when better evidence emerges.
• Genuine curiosity about mobile engineering and the evolving iOS platform.

• Background in fintech, banking or another regulated, high-trust environment where reliability and customer confidence matter.
• A track record of building shared libraries, platform capabilities or design systems that help engineering teams move faster.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of UIKit and its place within modern iOS development.
• Proven impact improving mobile CI/CD pipelines, release processes and developer tooling.
• Confidence using AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to improve productivity and code quality.

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