Java Developer

About Zopa

We believe a loan should be there to help you, not hold you back.

And an investment should be rewarding, but also ethical.

We're shaping the future of finance by offering competitive rates, flexible and intuitive products and award-winning customer service.

We exist to make money simple and fair for everyone – to enable people to do more with their money and take control of their finances.

Position

We are building the bank of the future with cutting edge technologies and are looking for Software Developers to collaborate on a major rebuild of our technical stack. Utilising Kafka and Kafka Streams to build a resilient, scalable backbone that powers the growth of the company, this is a unique opportunity for the right professionals to join us and make a difference.

You will build solutions that solve real-world problems, in a cross-functional team - small, agile and adaptable to whatever challenges come our way. Interaction with stakeholders and key business users is a way of life here. We're big believers in a lean philosophy and flexibility in implementation, while aiming to achieve stack consistency and alignment across the board.

At Zopa we're pragmatic programmers - both the cutting edge and the tried and tested get a voice. All of our Java infrastructure is deployed with Docker/Kubernetes when we need to via CI (Jenkins) and a completely automated test suite.

Your qualification

• You've worked on large scale distributed software systems that have proven scalability and complex topologies
• An advocate of test driven development or, even better, behavior-driven development. We are a financial institution and a strong commitment to quality is essential
• A willingness to talk to key stakeholders on a daily basis and be able to understand and be interested in the business objectives of the company. We deliver business value

Will be a plus

Experience with Kafka and/or a streams-based platform (Samza, Storm)