Mobile Engineering Manager at Zopa Bank in London

Job description

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 ch