Senior Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)

 

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. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com! 

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. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife

Developer Experience (DevX) is the heart of engineering productivity at Zopa. We are a high-impact squad of 6 engineers who treat our internal platform as a product, and our fellow Zopa engineers as our customers. 

 

Our mission is to build the tools that let every product engineer maintain compliance whilst having a world-class experience in shipping their code. We are currently starting a landmark project migrating our entire Fintech infrastructure from self-hosted Jenkins to a SaaS-based GitHub Actions platform.  

 

You will work across a modern stack including Go, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault, Honeycomb and DX.

 

 

As a Senior DevX Engineer, your focus isn't on deploying software for teams, fixing their pipelines, or troubleshooting incidents; you are architecting the future of how Zopa builds software. You will spend 50-80% of your time writing high-quality code to build internal CLI tools, automation providers, and self-service platforms. 

 

The rest of your day is spent as a strategic consultant and leader. You’ll be: 

 

- Architecting the Platform Evolution: Designing the templates and workflows that will move hundreds of microservices onto GitHub Actions. 

- Stakeholder Engagement: Meeting with product squads to identify friction points and writing technical RFCs to solve them. 

- Data-Driven Optimization: Analyzing DORA/DX metrics to prove that your tools have increased delivery experience (speed, stability, flow). 

- Mentoring: Levelling up our mid-level and associate engineers through pairing and high-standard code reviews.