Lead .NET Developer

In this Lead .Net Developer role, you guide multi-disciplinary squads to build user-centred software that solves real client problems. You shape architecture, pipelines and delivery, while mentoring engineers and representing engineering externally. You’ll drive technical excellence, advocate best practices, and collaborate closely with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable digital services. This role offers leadership impact across Hippo’s engineering community in a dynamic, agile consultancy setting.

• 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

• Act as a technical SME in the squad to produce user-centred software aligned with business needs
• Collaborate across teams to design and deliver client solutions
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, pre-empting bottlenecks
• Prioritise and realign delivery workload as priorities evolve
• Communicate progress and prototypes clearly to stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with team and stakeholders and mitigate/challenge blockers
• Involve in recruitment, onboarding and line management of engineers, and support professional development
• Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd externally through blogs, workshops, seminars or conferences

• Proven leadership of a delivery team delivering high-quality solutions
• Excellent experience in the .Net ecosystem with C# and ASP.NET MVC
• Coaching and guiding others to achieve optimal solutions
• Strong verbal and written communication adaptable to audience
• Experience across full development lifecycle delivering user-centred digital solutions
• Advanced full stack skills: C#, F#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• JavaScript libraries/frameworks: Node, React, Angular (preferable)
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes or similar
• Microservices design and RESTful APIs
• Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, Terraform, or ARM
• Public cloud experience and DevOps (AWS or Azure)
• Mastery of CI/CD tools: Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, Atlassian
• Experience with agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) and TDD
• Building native and web apps across scales and platforms
• GOV/NHS project experience is desirable

• Excellent communication
• Leadership and mentoring
• Collaborative mindset
• .Net ecosystem (C#, ASP.NET MVC)
• F#
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript