Lead Kotlin Full-Stack Engineer — Cloud & Microservices

Hippo; Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%

25 Days Holiday

Perkbox access

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Cycle-to-work

Salary sacrifice electric vehicles

Season ticket loans

Wellbeing sessions

Flexible benefits scheme

Private health cover

Private dental cover

Additional pension contributions

Additional holidays

Wellbeing contribution

Charity contributions

Tree planting

Job summary

Hippo, a rapidly growing digital consultancy, is seeking a Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developer to join our Manchester-based team. You will lead squads, mentor engineers, and shape end-to-end Kotlin back-end services with Spring Boot, REST APIs and modern front-end integrations.

You'll collaborate across strategy, design and delivery to solve complex client problems, while driving CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and scalable architectures in AWS/Azure/GCP. Relocation not required; travel occasional.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Kotlin and full development lifecycle delivering user-centred digital solutions (Java/JVM foundation).
• Proven track record leading a delivery team to high-quality, robust, scalable solutions.
• Expertise building back-end services using Kotlin with Spring Boot and Spring Framework (MVC, Security, REST).
• Experience in Microservices design, RESTful APIs, and Kotlin-based patterns.
• Experience with public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and DevOps, including Docker/Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (CloudFormation or Terraform).
• Proficient with CI/CD tools (Jenkins or Azure DevOps).
• Experience with front-end tech (Angular, React, TypeScript).

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical SME within the squad to ensure user-centred software development.
• Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to 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 bottlenecks.
• Communicate prototypes, solutions, and progress to stakeholders clearly.
• Lead recruitment and onboarding of engineers; mentor and coach teammates.

Skills

Kotlin

Java/JVM

Lead delivery

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kotlin coroutines

Microservices

Cloud platforms

DevOps

CI/CD

Frontend (Angular/React)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation/Terraform

Jenkins/Azure DevOps

Job description

Hippo, a rapidly growing digital consultancy, is seeking a Lead Full Stack Kotlin Developer to join our Manchester-based team. You will lead squads, mentor engineers, and shape end-to-end Kotlin back-end services with Spring Boot, REST APIs and modern front-end integrations.

You'll collaborate across strategy, design and delivery to solve complex client problems, while driving CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and scalable architectures in AWS/Azure/GCP. Relocation not required; travel occasional.