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Why developers should learn design skills to create great products

Design skills can improve code like coding skills can improve design Designers are often encouraged to learn basic coding skills to better understand the medium they design for. I believe…

Posted on 31 August 2018
by Lilian Tula

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Balancing family and work as a father

Spinning plates - being a modern father I'm a father to two fantastic girls, a husband to an independent, driven and ambitious wife, and a Zopian. I'm trying to be…

Posted on 15 June 2018
by Andrew Lawson

Inside Zopa Zopian life

Hackathon: designing the future of comms

Weeks before the event, I signed up for the MUXL’s UX hackathon. The hackathon was going to focus on designing a chatbot experience. It seemed like a great idea at the…

Posted on 11 June 2018
by Karyn Reidy

Tech Zopian life

Monitoring tools: One tool to rule them all

Shared dashboards. It’s a nice dream. But in reality, everyone trying to work off one dashboard can turn into an inefficient nightmare. Trying to decide what monitoring tools should be…

Posted on 04 June 2018
by Peter Meckiffe

Inside Zopa Zopian life

Finding work-life balance with film production and fintech

What do film production and fintech have in common? On the surface, not much. Unless you count the number of times I’ve thought about getting a Zopa loan to put…

Posted on 23 May 2018
by Caroline Amer

Tech Zopian life

Three things I wish I knew earlier about Machine Learning

(Reposted from www.peadarcoyle.com) I’ve been working with Machine Learning models both in academic and industrial settings for a few years now, and I recently watched the excellent Scalable ML from…

Posted on 09 March 2018
by Peadar Coyle

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Women in Tech at Zopa

Last week, we hosted our first Women in Tech event at Zopa. People from all over the industry joined us for an evening of eating mince pies, networking and listening…

Posted on 22 December 2017
by Laura Wilson

Future of finance Tech

Open Source at Zopa

Recently we were contacted by the Python Sprints Meetup - a group that wants to encourage people to contribute to Open Source via workshops and sprints. One of our data…

Posted on 13 December 2017
by Peadar Coyle

Inside Zopa Zopian life

Volunteering at Zopa

Zopa introduced volunteering days in August last year and so far 64 staff have volunteered for charities across the country. Zopians can volunteer for any registered charity and the company…

Posted on 07 June 2017
by Emily Dickens

Inside Zopa Zopa news

Zopa opens development centre in Barcelona

Zopa has opened a development centre in Barcelona, Spain. The new hub will initially focus on building the technology to support the launch of our next generation bank and developers…

Posted on 07 June 2017
by Ronen Benchetrit

Investments Our products

How we use feedback to improve our service

Last week, we conducted one of our regular surveys through the Weekly Update. These quick questionnaires are important to us as customer feedback directly informs how we improve our products…

Posted on 05 May 2017
by Andrew Lawson

Inside Zopa Zopian life

Advice and inspiration from women at Zopa

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked some of the women in senior positions at Zopa for their top career advice, the achievements they’re proudest of and who they look…

Posted on 08 March 2017
by Sara Bishop

Inside Zopa Tech Zopian life

Paths to programming – meet Kate and Tom

Our people come from many different backgrounds. Here at Zopa we recognize diversity of experience and background as a positive for our teams, and for the strength of the business.…

Posted on 25 January 2017
by Zopian blogger

Tech Zopian life

Jump into OKRs without jumping off-track

TL;DR If you're starting your journey with OKRs and it's scary, fear not! The mere fact you've started means you're doing well. Stay enthusiastic! At Zopa, we're split into autonomous…

Posted on 16 December 2016
by Orrin Ward

Inside Zopa News

We have a new look!

After months of research, development, and testing, we’re thrilled to unveil our brand new look. This fresh new identity will give us a springboard for our ambitious plans to bring…

Posted on 06 December 2016
by Gemma Newton

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