Senior Data Engineer

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.

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.

The Data Engineering team are responsible for designing, building and running the complex data pipelines that the bank relies on. We combine skills in software engineering, data analysis, and operations and partner with teams across the company to solve varied, challenging problems. We value collaboration, pragmatism and continual learning over individual heroics. This is a chance to join Zopa’s Data Engineering team at a genuinely interesting point of scale and maturity. You’ll be building and evolving the data platforms that underpin decision‑making across the entire bank – from customer behaviour and product analytics to time‑critical use cases like fraud, where minutes genuinely matter.

A Day In The Life: You’ll collaborate to design and build resilient data pipelines and warehouse solutions, owning their quality, reliability, and end‑to‑end delivery. Requirement gathering with Product teams, Analysts and business stakeholders inside and outside of the team, through pairing and peer reviewing on tasks, to developing tested, well‑documented data workflows running in production. Ensuring data architecture and modelling decisions are documented and understood, taking an active part in the team's operational responsibilities. Have a voice in all our ceremonies from retrospectives, refinement sessions, architectural planning sessions through to social activities, helping to shape how we work and continuously improve our data capabilities. We take development seriously: engineers are expected to keep learning, and we actively support time spent improving skills and deepening expertise.

About You: You love shipping great data products and reliable pipelines, not just writing elegant code. You are an experienced Senior Data Engineer, who works with Python and SQL, and is comfortable designing and building data pipelines end‑to‑end. As an Engineer, you’re interested in the business questions behind the data, not just the technical requirements. You feel comfortable in a fast‑moving environment and are ambitious about the speed, reliability and observability of your data workflows. You care deeply about data quality, testing and documentation, and take a systematic approach to ensuring trustworthy, well‑modelled datasets. You’ve worked on large‑scale data platforms or warehouses, with proven experience handling complex data models and high‑volume datasets in production. You enjoy partnering with analysts, analytics engineers and product teams, and you’re motivated by enabling others to make better decisions with data. You are comfortable with ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment, and are excited by evolving architectures and technologies. You are a team player who thrives in a humble, supportive environment, are happy to pair and help others, and are just as comfortable asking for help yourself.

Added Bonus: Experience of data engineering/analytics in a regulated environment – e.g. finance, retail or healthcare. Hands‑on experience of technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Spark, DBT or Airflow. Exposure to Databricks or Snowflake.

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.

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.