Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developer

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions for a diverse range of Public and Private sector clients. We are recruiting for a Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developer to join our Hippo Herd. We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology to solve complex problems and create lasting value. Our collaborative and agile culture empowers our teams to make a genuine impact.

As a Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developer, you will play an important role in making Hippo the best Consultancy out there. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team combining data, design, product, delivery, analysis and engineering to deliver bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do.

You will act as a Lead Consultant to deliver Kotlin Development services to our clients. Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developers are experts in their field, providing strategic technical guidance and hands-on leadership within squads and the wider Hippo engineering community.

Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems beyond traditional boundaries that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data and digital services. The Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developer will be a key player and implementer in this.

Your Role in a Nutshell

• 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 and stakeholders to explore, design, and deliver solutions to complex client problems.
• Continuously review and prioritise the delivery team's workload.
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, resolving issues and potential bottlenecks.
• Communicate and present prototypes, solutions, and progress to internal and external stakeholders in a clear, concise manner.
• Lead the recruitment and on-boarding of other engineers and support their professional development through mentoring and coaching.