Mobile Engineering Manager

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. 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 About the team:   We are on a mission to build outstanding mobile experiences for our customers. You will join and lead a team of mobile engineers responsible for building customer-facing products across our native iOS and Android apps. The team works closely with Product, Design and Backend Engineering to take ideas from inception through to customers, with a strong focus on delivering experiences that feel at home on each platform. The company has the vision to become Britain’s best bank, and the app is our most important touch point with our customers. It needs to be performant, reliable and delightful to use. Our mobile apps are built natively using Swift and SwiftUI on iOS and Kotlin and Compose on Android, and we care deeply about creating experiences that are technically and visually empathetic to each platform. You will also be part of the wider Mobile community at Zopa, helping us maintain a high bar across our apps and contributing to shared standards and ways of working. A day in the life: • You will report into the Head of Engineering of Mobile.​ • Managing a team of mobile engineers, creating an environment in which they can do their best work. You'll be responsible for motivating and developing the team, holding a high performance bar and driving quality across the full SDLC. • Taking accountability for the execution and delivery of your team. You will create structure where needed, maintain momentum and ensure we deliver high-quality mobile experiences predictably. • Working closely with Product and Design to understand the shared outcomes and shape how they are delivered on mobile. You will challenge where necessary, including whether the work we are doing will meaningfully contribute to our goals, and ensure the experiences we build feel at home on iOS and Android. • Partnering closely with Engineering Managers and teams across Zopa, particularly Backend Engineering, to drive complex initiatives from inception through to delivery. You will identify dependencies early, unblock problems and take shared accountability for smooth end-to-end delivery rather than considering the job done when the mobile work is complete. • Providing technical leadership to your team. You don’t need to be the most technically experienced engineer in the room, but you will have the technical credibility to ask the right questions, challenge decisions and hold a high bar for the quality, performance and maintainability of our mobile apps. • Contributing beyond your immediate team through the wider Mobile and Engineering Management communities. You will help improve shared mobile standards and practices, bring good ways of working to your team and share learnings with Engineering Managers across Zopa. • Communicating clearly with senior stakeholders, technical and otherwise, and bringing teams closer together. About you: • Bring proven experience leading mobile engineering teams and delivering high quality mobile applications, with the credibility to support and challenge experienced engineers. • Lead high profile, strategic work with energy and pace, creating momentum and driving positive change when it is needed. • Turn ambiguity into clarity, solving complex problems while balancing priorities, dependencies and competing demands. • Stay focused on meaningful customer and business outcomes, constructively challenging priorities when they will not create enough impact. • Champion exceptional mobile products, creating distinct, intuitive iOS and Android experiences and staying close to emerging mobile practices. • Build trusted partnerships across Product, Design and Engineering, bringing people together around shared goals even when views differ. • Lead with humility and care, empowering engineers through clear expectations, meaningful feedback, coaching and high standards. • Take ownership with ambition and confidence, setting direction and remaining accountable for your team’s delivery and technical quality. • Communicate with empathy and clarity, building strong relationships and managing expectations across a wide range of stakeholders. Added bonus: • Have experience working in a regulated environment to ensure that customer interests are always prioritised. #LI-CW1 At Zopa we value flexible ways of working. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. 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!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one. *Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice   Diversity Statement Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.    Our approach to AI in interviews At Zopa, AI isn't something we're testing out — it's part of how we work every day. As a proud partner of Jobs 2030, we're committed to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expect Zopians to use AI as part of how they do their jobs.  Because of that, we want to be transparent about how we think about AI use during our hiring process.  Behavioural and competency-based interviews: please don't use AI. These conversations are designed to understand you — your experiences, your judgment, and how you've approached real situations. An AI-generated answer can't tell us that. What it can do is get in the way of us finding out whether we're the right fit for each other.  Technical interviews: it depends on the role. Some technical stages actively welcome AI use, others don't. Your Talent Partner will let you know what's expected at each stage. Where AI is part of the assessment, we'll be interested not just in the outcome, but in how you used it – the tools you chose, your reasoning, and the decisions you made along the way.