Overview
Hippo Digital 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 Mobile Developer to support this mission. As a key technical leader, you will design, govern, and deliver innovative, scalable, and secure mobile applications, work hands‑on within project teams, and mentor engineers.
Our solutions empower customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well‑engineered ecosystems. We leverage deep platform insights and continuous innovation to deliver world‑class outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of mobile solutions on client projects, ensuring they are robust, performant, and aligned with modern mobile‑first business objectives.
- Work hands‑on to define and implement mobile architectural patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture), choosing the right tools, whether native or cross‑platform.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to senior and mid‑level engineers, fostering a culture of high‑quality code reviews and continuous learning.
- Collaborate with clients and UX/UI designers to understand user challenges and translate complex requirements into seamless mobile technical architectures.
- Ensure solutions adhere to industry best practices in areas such as mobile security, offline capability, accessibility (WCAG), and App Store/Play Store compliance.
- Support the development of proposals and bids, articulating our technical approach to mobile‑led digital transformation to potential clients.
- Represent Hippo Digital’s technical excellence in client meetings, mobile workshops, and discovery phases.
About the Candidate
- Extensive experience as a Lead or Senior Mobile Engineer, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, consumer‑facing mobile applications.
- Deep hands‑on expertise in Native Development, specifically with Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android).
- Proficiency in Cross‑Platform Frameworks, specifically Flutter (Dart), including state management (Bloc, Provider, or Riverpod) and platform channels.
- Solid understanding of modern mobile architecture patterns, modularisation and mobile‑specific CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Bitrise, Fastlane, or GitHub Actions).
- Experience with mobile‑centric integration, including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Firebase services, and local data persistence (Room, CoreData, or SQLite).
- Strong grasp of the mobile release lifecycle, including automated testing (Unit, UI, and Integration) and managing beta distribution via TestFlight or App Center.
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 vehicle scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions
- Flexible benefits scheme: private health cover, private dental cover, additional company pension contributions, additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days), wellbeing contribution, charity contributions, tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
Hippo is dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups and are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Hippo is a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant.
Location
We are headquartered in Leeds with offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. Candidates should be located within reasonable travel distance from the office that will be their contracted location. The role may involve on‑site work at a Hippo office or client sites and you will need to be open to flexible travel. A relocation support package of up to £8k is offered.
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