Zopa Bank

Zopa – The Feel Good Money® company.

Founded 2005
501-1000 employees
  • Banking, Corporate Finance, & Investing
  • Technology Infrastructure
  • Digital Payments
  • Headquarters address
    Cottons Centre, London Bridge, SE1 2QG
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    Hired Top Employer in 2023, 2022, and 2021

    Our mission

    We’re Zopa, and we’re on a mission to make money work better for our customers. Through our digital-first bank, we’re able to provide savings, loans, credit cards, car finance and money management solutions that make finance fairer for all.
    We’re working hard to improve the finances of the hundreds of thousands that use our services — and we're always on the lookout for talented, passionate people to join our mission.

    We’ve helped our customers take the stress out of money by building a bank that’s more honest, more inclusive, more human. Our people are united by high expectations for a better, fairer financial future — together we make our impact count.

    The Zopa story

    In June 2020, we launched Zopa Bank. Taking this step has meant we’ve been able to continue to change the way financial services are done. We’ve taken our 18 years of tech know-how, customer understanding and money expertise and used them to create simple, fair and honest financial products that work better for customers.

    We do this by listening to what our customers don’t like about finance and doing the opposite. That’s why we never hide fees. It’s also why we like to keep things so simple that customers can open a fixed term savings account in the time it takes to brew a tea.

    But we’re not just fixing what’s broken, we’re also here to create totally new ways of doing things, like our credit card designed to give customers complete control of their spending, or our Borrowing Power tool, offering tailored tips on how customers can improve their financial situation.

    Shaking things up like this is in our DNA. In 2005, we built the first ever peer-to-peer lending company, giving people access to simpler, better value loans and investments. After 16 years of delivering positive returns for our investors, we closed the P2P lending side of our business in 2021 so we could fully focus on Zopa Bank.

    We got to where we are today by constantly listening and learning from our customers’ feedback and striving to remain flexible to meet their needs. During our 18 years of lending we’ve been able to make money work better for over half a million people across the UK, lending out £6 billion and learning from every pound and every customer.

    We’re proud to have delivered a service which is rated excellent on Trustpilot and to have built a bank which we believe can challenge expectations and help many more customers reach their financial goals.

    What it means to be a Zopian

    What’s special about being a Zopian? The top-end technology we use, the problems we solve using it and the attitude we bring to shaking things up.

    At Zopa, you'll work with some brilliant people. You'll have opportunities to grow your career and expand your knowledge in a fun, motivated environment. Everyone around you will be truly passionate about doing good things for our customers.

    With more than 800+ Zopians, we work in product-focused tribes dedicated to one vital part of the Zopa mission, complemented by cross-functional teams whose expertise and skill support all areas of the business.

    Find out more here about what means to be a Zopian.

    What can Zopa offer you?

    • Bonus
    • 120 days work from anywhere
    • Hybrid working and flexible hours
    • Private healthcare
    • Medicash
    • Pension
    • 25 days holiday
    • Life insurance
    • 16 weeks gender neutral parental leave
    • Electric vehicle scheme
    • L&D budget
    • Family wellbeing plan
    • Perk box
    • Cycle to work scheme
    • Flexible bank holidays
    • Study leave
    • Access to Zopa products

    Tech stack

    Java 11, Kotlin, AWS, .NET Core 2, Kafka, React, React-Native, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, Redis, PyData, Splunk, Monte Carlo, Postman, Swagger, AWS Aurora Postgres, Terraform

    Benefits

    Compensation and retirement

    Performance bonus
    Pension plan

    Health and wellness

    Insurance (Health)
    Insurance (Vision)
    EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

    Vacation and time off

    Paid holidays
    Flexible working hours
    Work from home flexibility
    Volunteer time off
    Maternity benefits
    Paternity benefits
    Sabbatical

    Personal development

    Tuition reimbursement
    Management training
    Job training
    Conferences reimbursement
    Hackathons

    Values and quality of life

    Accessible via public transportation
    Bike parking
    Employee groups and committees
    Snacks and beverages
    Catered meals
    Company activities
    Games and recreation
    Employee discount programs
    Showers