Android Engineer
Zopa· Engineering – Mobile Products Engineering
Hybrid (London)£0Employee - PermanentPosted 5mo ago
About the role
Android Engineer at Zopa, focused on shaping the future of the Android experience as part of the Mobile Platform team. Move from React Native toward a more native Android implementation in Kotlin, building shared capabilities, tooling, and standards to enable product squads.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with other native mobile engineers to design, build, and evolve the Android platform.
- Play a key role in migrating the app from React Native to native Android, building in Kotlin with strong architectural foundations and industry best practices.
- Partner with the wider mobile engineering community, including React Native developers, to define best practices for native development and support engineers cross-training into native Android.
- Improve the performance, robustness, and overall quality of the app by identifying bottlenecks, addressing technical debt, and resolving defects to optimise the user experience.
- Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to design and deliver features that fully leverage native Android capabilities.
Qualifications
- Experienced in building and shipping production Android applications in Kotlin, including publishing apps to the Google Play Store.
- Strong understanding of Android frameworks, platform APIs, and native app development best practices.
- Background working on modern, high-engagement mobile applications with a focus on performance, reliability, and delivering exceptional user experiences.
- Passion for quality, with a track record of raising engineering standards through thoughtful design, testing, and maintainable code.
- Motivated by opportunities to create broad impact through better processes, tooling, and automation that raise the bar for mobile engineering across teams.
- Customer-focused, with a genuine interest in Zopa’s mission.
Skills
Required:KotlinAndroid frameworks and APIsGoogle Play ConsoleCode quality and testingCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:React Native
Benefits
- N/A
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Zopa
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