Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developer
Hippo Digital
Overview
As Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developer at Hippo, you guide and deliver Kotlin-based solutions for a diverse client base. You act as a technical SME within cross-functional squads, shaping architecture and mentoring engineers. You’ll lead delivery, design pipelines, and communicate progress to stakeholders, while driving secure, scalable systems. This role blends hands-on development with strategic leadership to advance Hippo’s mission of human-centered digital transformation.
Pay / Benefits- Contributory Pension Scheme
- 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
- Perkbox discounts
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Serve as the technical SME in squads to ensure user-centered software aligned with business requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to design and deliver complex client solutions
- Prioritize and manage the delivery team's workload
- Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, resolving bottlenecks
- Present prototypes, solutions, and progress clearly to internal and external stakeholders
- Lead recruitment and onboarding of engineers and mentor their development
- Extensive Kotlin experience across the full development lifecycle with JVM foundation
- Proven track record leading a delivery team to build robust, scalable solutions
- Expertise in Kotlin with Spring Boot and Spring Framework (MVC, Security, REST)
- Experience in microservices design and RESTful APIs using Kotlin
- Public cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and DevOps practices including containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Infrastructure as Code tools (CloudFormation or Terraform)
- CI/CD tooling experience (Jenkins or Azure DevOps)
- Front-end experience (Angular, React, TypeScript)
- Collaborative mindset
- Leadership and mentoring
- Effective stakeholder communication
- Kotlin (with coroutines)
- Spring Boot / Spring Framework
- Microservices architecture
Reference: WJ-747_30163105