Senior Security Engineer in City of London

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.

Our Team

The Security Engineering team’s mission is to secure Zopa’s technology platform. We work closely with platform and product engineering teams to ensure the security of our infrastructure, while enabling engineers to build our products quickly and efficiently. We’re part of the Information Security team which is responsible for protecting the bank and our customers against various threats.

A Day In The Life

• You would report into the Engineering Manager in the Security Engineering team.
• You would lead the development of great solutions to improve security of our cloud‑based technology infrastructure, making security the easy option for engineers.
• You’ll chart the technical direction of the team, supporting team members to meet technical standards, experiment and find innovative solutions.
• You’ll collaborate with other team members, platform, product engineering and security operations teams.
• You’ll help solve complex technical problems and analyse trade‑offs.
• You would evaluate open‑source and third‑party commercial solutions for suitability and value to our users.
• You would participate in ownership and maintenance of the team’s solutions.

About You

• Demonstrated experience designing solutions with cloud infrastructure technologies, ideally some or all of: AWS (or another cloud platform), Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, and secrets management tools like Vault.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana and ideally Splunk).
• Knowledge of scripting/programming languages, ideally Go and/or Python.
• You enjoy owning delivery of large projects and communicating with stakeholders in other teams/roles.
• Strong commitment to quality throughout the SDLC, including testing.
• Excited to continuously learn new things and dig into new technologies, and to mentor team members to do the same.

Added Bonus

• Prior knowledge or a demonstrated interest in information security.
• Participation in ownership of distributed services running in production at scale.

We’re on the move! Towards the end of 2025 Zopa will be relocating to a brand‑new headquarters at 20 Water Street in Canary Wharf. The 44,000 square foot workspace will foster collaboration and inspire creativity for our 900 employees amidst our 2025 growth blitz.

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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.