Zopa - Senior Android Engineer

• You will report to the Engineering Manager for the Mobile Platform team. • You will work closely with other native mobile engineers to design, build, and evolve the Android platform. • You will play a key role in migrating the app from React Native to native Android, building in Kotlin with strong architectural foundations and industry best practices. • You will collaborate with the wider mobile engineering community, including React Native developers, to define best practices for native development and mentor engineers as they cross-train into native Android. • You will improve the performance, robustness, and overall quality of the app by identifying bottlenecks, addressing technical debt, and fixing defects to optimise the user experience. • You will collaborate with cross-functional partners – including product managers, designers, and backend engineers to design and deliver features that fully leverage native Android capabilities. • You are an experienced mobile app developer with a strong track record of building and shipping production Android applications in Kotlin, including publishing apps to the Google Play Store. • You have a solid understanding of Android frameworks, platform APIs, and native app development best practices. • You have worked on modern, high-engagement mobile applications, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and delivering delightful user experiences. • You treat quality as a first-class concern and have a proven history of raising engineering standards through thoughtful design, testing, and maintainable code. You take pride in your craft and in doing things right. • You are motivated by opportunities to have broad impact, introducing better processes, tooling, and automation to raise the bar for mobile engineering across teams. • You have a strong customer focus and a genuine interest in Zopa’s mission. • Experience applying mobile security best practices in production Android applications. • Experience working 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 mobile environment.