Android Engineer

Join us to build the future of financial advice - personal, accessible, and built for today. Financial advice has been too expensive, exclusive, and out of reach for too long. At Clove, we’re combining trusted advisers with technology to close the advice gap and help people make smarter decisions with their money. As one of our first hires, you’ll shape how advice works for today - personal, accessible, and built around real lives. You’ll own the Android app experience end-to-end, from early prototypes to polished releases. You’ll work closely with design and our other engineers to solve real problems from first principles, shaping the approach as you go, and turn that into interfaces that feel simple, fast, and trustworthy. We’re a small team, so this role is a mix of design-minded engineer and engineering-minded designer: you’ll sweat the details, iterate in tight loops with design, and turn high taste into shippable, maintainable product. In a world where the “can we build it?” bar keeps dropping, the real differentiator is how the app makes someone feel - confident, in control, and cared for. And beyond that: a little bit like they’ve got superpowers. It should be fun. It should feel genuinely magical; through the details of the UI, motion, and interaction design. Your background * Product-minded: you care about the user problem, you ship, and you iterate based on data and user feedback. * Strong Android engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping high-quality apps. * High ownership and autonomy: you can take ambiguous problems from “vague” to “shipped”, bring others along, and drive them through to impact. There are no PMs here. * A true self-starter: you don’t wait to be told what to do, and you take ownership end-to-end. * You don’t settle for mediocrity. You push the quality bar and keep raising what “great” looks like. * A love of building and learning by doing: you prototype, measure, iterate, and you enjoy the loop. * First-principles thinking and healthy skepticism: you ask “why?”, challenge assumptions, and look for simpler, better foundations. * Excellent product taste: you care about typography, spacing, motion, and the “last 10%” details that make an experience feel premium. * Comfort building complicated UI and stateful flows with clean, maintainable code. Nice-to-haves * Jetpack Compose expertise and experience designing reusable UI systems. * 0→1 experience: you’ve taken a product from a blank page to something people love. * Comfortable with backend technologies and collaborating across the stack. * Comfortable diving into analytics dashboards, understanding what’s happening, and turning it into product improvements. * Comfortable talking directly with users. * Experience working in regulated or high-trust environments (fintech, health, identity), where clarity and correctness matter. * Experience working in an early-stage team where you set patterns, not just follow them. Your impact * Build and ship new onboarding and advice experiences with a strong bias for experimentation and learning. * Create complex, high-craft interfaces (dynamic forms, rich state, thoughtful motion, and edge-case handling) that still feel effortless to use, including polished animations and transitions that communicate state, reduce cognitive load, and make the experience feel premium. * Push what’s possible on Android: modern UI patterns, performance, accessibility, and delightful micro-interactions. * Set the foundations for Android engineering at Clove: architecture, quality bar, testing, release cadence, and observability. * Partner tightly with design and product to iterate quickly, then refine until it’s genuinely excellent. Our offer A chance to join a small, senior team building Clove from the ground up. You’ll have ownership, flexibility, and real impact - backed by trust, momentum, and a mission that matters. Our process We keep it simple: real conversations with the founding team, practical exercises if useful, and clarity about what we expect from each other. No hoops for the sake of it.

Our Story   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. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!    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. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife The team   We’re on a mission to take our mobile app to the next level, and we’re looking for someone to help shape the future of our Android experience in Kotlin. Joining the Mobile Platform team, you’ll work on the technical foundations that power the app — from architecture and shared libraries to core experiences, build systems, and analytics infrastructure.    Our team plays a key role in driving innovation across Zopa’s mobile community and shaping the future of our mobile technology. As Zopa continues its ambition to become Britain’s best bank, the mobile app remains our most important customer touchpoint. Following the launch of the Zopa Account — a high-touch, mass-market product — we’re making a significant investment in creating an app experience that is performant, reliable, and delightful to use.   While the app today is built with React Native, we are expanding our native capabilities in Swift and Kotlin and are transforming the Android experience with a move toward a more fully native approach. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of that journey!