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 & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.
Hippo’s Lead Python Developers are experts in their field. You will act as a lead consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices both internally and to our 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.
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 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
* Involved in the recruitment, onboarding 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)
About the Candidate:
* Expertise in Python Engineering
* Expertise in AWS Serverless including tools & technologies such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Eventbridge, Cloudwatch and CloudFormation
* 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/non-technical terms depending on audience
* The full development lifecycle delivering user-centred digital solutions
* Full stack experience with HTML, CSS & JavaScript
* JavaScript library and framework experience is preferable – Node, React, Angular
* Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar
* Experience of Microservices 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
* CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps and Atlassian
* Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable
About The Company:
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of 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 the 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:
At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.
We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr