Lead .NET Developer — Azure & Microservices Leader

Hippo Digital Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme (£ Hippo 6

25 Days Holiday + UK Holidays

Perkbox discounts

Critical illness cover

Life assurance and death in service

Volunteer days

Cycle-to-work scheme

Salary sacrifice electric vehicles

Season ticket loans

Wellbeing sessions

Private health cover

Private dental cover

Additional company pension

Extra holidays (up to 2)

Tree planting

Job summary

Hippo Digital Ltd is seeking a Lead .Net Developer to join our Leeds-based team, delivering secure, scalable software for public and private sector clients. You will lead a squad, shape technical strategy, and mentor engineers while driving best practices across delivery and CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate across data, design, product, delivery and engineering to deliver bespoke digital services that create lasting value and impact for organisations and society.

Qualifications

• Excellent experience in the .Net ecosystem, particularly with C# and ASP.NET MVC.
• Proven track record of leading a delivery team to deliver high‑quality, robust solutions.
• Expertise in Azure and DevOps.
• Expertise in 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.
• Expertise in the full development lifecycle delivering user‑centred digital solutions.
• Advanced full stack developer skills using C#, F#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• JavaScript library and framework experience is preferable – Node, React, Angular.
• Containerisation expertise – Docker or Kubernetes or similar.
• Expert knowledge of Microservices design and architecture, including RESTful API Services.
• Expertise 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.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Cloudformation, Terraform, or ARM).
• Mastery of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, and Atlassian.

Responsibilities

• 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 anticipate the need for realignment with evolving priorities.
• Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to 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, on‑boarding and line management of other engineers, and support consultants in their professional development.
• Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences).

Skills

Net ecosystem

C#

ASP.NET MVC

Azure

DevOps

Microservices

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Agile

Full stack (C#, F#, HTML/CSS/JS)

RESTful APIs

Scrum/Kanban

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

AWS CodeBuild

Atlassian

Job description

Hippo Digital Ltd is seeking a Lead .Net Developer to join our Leeds-based team, delivering secure, scalable software for public and private sector clients. You will lead a squad, shape technical strategy, and mentor engineers while driving best practices across delivery and CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate across data, design, product, delivery and engineering to deliver bespoke digital services that create lasting value and impact for organisations and society.