Senior Kotlin Full-Stack Engineer — Cloud & Microservices

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension

25 Days Holiday

Perkbox Discounts

Critical Illness Cover

Life Assurance

Cycle-to-Work

EV Salary Sacrifice

Season Ticket Loans

Wellbeing Sessions

Flexible Benefits

Private Health Cover

Additional Holidays

Charity Contributions

Diversity, Inclusion

Job summary

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy delivering transformative digital solutions. We seek a Senior Full Stack Kotlin Developer to join our Hippo Herd and lead Kotlin development across client projects.

You will work in a multidisciplinary team, mentoring engineers, owning deployment pipelines, and delivering secure, well‑engineered systems. Travel to client sites is expected as needed.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Kotlin and JVM.
• Strong Java and full development lifecycle experience.
• Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js or Nunjucks.
• Proven track record delivering high‑quality, scalable solutions.
• Expertise with Spring Boot and the wider Spring Framework.
• Experience with microservices design and RESTful APIs.
• Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and DevOps practices.
• Containerisation with Docker/Kubernetes; IaC with Terraform.
• CI/CD with Jenkins or Azure DevOps; Kafka or messaging knowledge.
• GOV/NHS consultancy experience is a plus; Helm knowledge is good.

Responsibilities

• Lead production of user‑centred software aligned with business requirements.
• Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to design and deliver solutions.
• Own development and deployment pipelines, resolving bottlenecks.
• Communicate prototypes, solutions and progress clearly to stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach engineers to support their development.

Skills

Kotlin & JVM

Java

Node.js

TypeScript

Express.js

Nunjucks

Microservices

Spring Boot

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Kafka

Helm

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy delivering transformative digital solutions. We seek a Senior Full Stack Kotlin Developer to join our Hippo Herd and lead Kotlin development across client projects.

You will work in a multidisciplinary team, mentoring engineers, owning deployment pipelines, and delivering secure, well‑engineered systems. Travel to client sites is expected as needed.