About The Role
Hippo is recruiting Lead Python Developers to join our Hippo Herd. Lead Python Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support and maintain user‑centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.
Lead Python Developers are experts in their field. You will act as a lead consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices internally and to clients. You will be a leader of people and teams, managing projects, driving the team's technical deliverables, maintaining client relationships and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.
Responsibilities
* Act as a technical SME within the squad to produce and ensure user‑centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice.
* Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design and deliver solutions to client problems.
* Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur.
* Continuously review and prioritise the delivery team's workload and can anticipate the need for realignment with evolving operational priorities and complex work‑streams and assignments.
* Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear, concise manner.
* Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome.
* Be involved in the recruitment, on‑boarding and line management of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development.
* Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd externally (for example through writing blogs, workshops, seminars or conferences).
Skills and Experience
* Leading a delivery team to deliver high‑quality, robust solutions.
* Coaching and guiding others on the best way to achieve an optimal solution.
* Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical and non‑technical terms depending on audience.
* The full development lifecycle delivering user‑centred digital solutions.
* A full stack developer using Python, HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
* JavaScript library and framework experience is preferable – Node, React, Angular.
* Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar.
* Experience of micro‑services design and architecture.
* Restful API services experience.
* Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD.
* Skilled in designing and building native and web applications, across a variety of scales and platform environments.
* Infrastructure as code – CloudFormation, Terraform or ARM or similar.
* Expertise in public cloud (AWS or Azure) and DevOps.
* CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps and Atlassian.
* Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable.
Benefits
* Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%).
* 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays.
* Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts.
* Critical illness cover.
* Life assurance and death in service cover.
* Volunteer days.
* Cycle‑to‑work scheme for avid cyclists.
* Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme.
* Season ticket loans.
* Financial and general wellbeing sessions.
* Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
o private health cover
o private dental cover
o additional company pension contributions
o additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
o wellbeing contribution
o charity contributions
o tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.
Location
We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. Candidates should be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices which will be your contracted office location. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on‑site at a Hippo office or at an in‑or‑out‑of‑town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open and flexible to travel. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k.
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