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ZopaAndroid Engineer
Zopa is hiring an Android Engineer to join its Mobile Platform team in London. The app is currently built with React Native, and the company is…
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Zopa is hiring an Android Engineer to join its Mobile Platform team in London. The app is currently built with React Native, and the company is expanding its native work in Kotlin and Swift, moving the Android experience toward a more fully native build. The post is full time and hybrid, with two to three days a week in the office. The Mobile Platform team maintains the shared infrastructure, tooling…
Job Description
Zopa is hiring an Android Engineer to join its Mobile Platform team in London. The app is currently built with React Native, and the company is expanding its native work in Kotlin and Swift, moving the Android experience toward a more fully native build. The post is full time and hybrid, with two to three days a week in the office.
The Mobile Platform team maintains the shared infrastructure, tooling and engineering standards beneath the customer-facing app. Its remit covers the architecture of the app, reusable modules, the component library, monitoring, developer tools and build pipelines. Product squads stay responsible for their own customer journeys and the services they run, while the platform team provides the foundations they build on.
The engineer will help move the codebase away from React Native and onto native Android, working in Kotlin on sound architecture. Other duties include raising performance and robustness by locating bottlenecks, tackling technical debt and fixing defects, and mentoring engineers who are learning native Android. The engineer also works hand in hand with product, design and backend colleagues on features that use native platform capabilities. The final team placement will be confirmed late in the interview process.
The ideal candidate has shipped production Android apps written in Kotlin, including releases to the Google Play Store, and cares about quality, testing and maintainable code. Experience with mobile security, CI/CD for mobile, or collaboration with iOS and React Native engineers would be a useful addition.
Responsibilities
- Help shape the native Android platform alongside other native mobile engineers
- Contribute to the move away from React Native, building in Kotlin on solid architecture
- Share native development practice with React Native developers and support colleagues cross-training into native Android
- Find bottlenecks, tackle technical debt and fix defects to improve performance and robustness
- Work hand in hand with product, design and backend colleagues to build features that use native Android capabilities
Requirements
- Production Android experience in Kotlin, including publishing apps on the Google Play Store
- Comfortable with the Android framework, operating-system APIs and conventions for native apps
- Background in engaging, high-traffic mobile apps where speed and dependability matter
- Commitment to quality, shown through design, testing and maintainable code
- Motivated to lift the wider mobile organisation through improved processes and automated tooling
- Customer focus, plus real curiosity about Zopa's purpose
Qualifications
- Practical experience applying mobile security practice in production Android apps
- Familiarity with CI/CD for mobile, covering build, test and release automation
- Experience partnering with iOS (Swift) or React Native engineers on shared mobile work
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Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Working overseas for as many as 120 days a year, if the right to work applies in that country
Frequently Asked Questions
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Where is the Android Engineer role based?
The role is based in London and is hybrid, with two to three days a week in the office.
Which programming language does the role use?
The posting asks for Kotlin, as the app shifts from React Native toward native code.
Which team will the engineer join?
The engineer joins the Mobile Platform team, although the final placement is agreed late in the interview process.
What salary does the posting offer?
The posting does not state a salary.
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