Frontend Engineer

The team

Our Web Engineering team sits at the heart of Zopa, building the web experiences that power customer acquisition, customer servicing and the internal tools our teams rely on. Working closely with Product, Design, Marketing and Backend teams, we create fast, scalable and accessible experiences that have a real impact on millions of customers.

As a Frontend Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and evolving modern web applications using our frontend ecosystem. You'll work alongside experienced engineers who will support your growth, giving you the opportunity to take ownership of features, solve interesting technical challenges and continually develop your skills.

This is a hands-on role where you'll contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through to performance optimisation, experimentation and continuous improvement.

A day in the life:

• Build and enhance customer-facing and internal web applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript and GraphQL, delivering features across multiple products and business areas.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing and Backendteams to create intuitive, accessible and high-performing user experiences.
• Contribute to our frontend platform by improving reusable components, shared libraries and engineering best practices that help teams move faster.
• Optimise application performance, reliability and accessibility, using data, experimentation and customer feedback to continuously improve our products.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, CI/CD and observability, helping maintain high engineering standards while learning from experienced teammates.
• Take ownership of your work, proactively identifying opportunities to improve our applications, developer experience and ways of working.

About You:

• Commercial experience building modern web applications using React, TypeScript and Next.js.
• A solid understanding of frontend engineering principles, including component-based architecture, state management and responsive, accessible UI development.
• Experience working collaboratively with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver high-quality customer experiences.
• An interest in writing clean, maintainable code and continuously improving application performance, reliability and developer experience.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including testing, Git, CI/CD and Agile delivery.
• A proactive mindset with a genuine curiosity to learn, solve problems and continue developing as an engineer.

Added bonus:

• Knowledge of technical SEO, Core Web Vitals and modern rendering strategies (SSR, crawlability, structured data, indexation and semantic HTML), with experience optimising applications for both traditional search engines and AI-powered search.
• Experience with GraphQLand observability tools such as Honeycombor Grafana.
• Working on customer-facing products within fintech, regulated industries or fast-growing technology businesses.
• Contributing to shared libraries, design systems or platform tooling that helps improve engineering productivity.