Lead .Net Developer

Overview

As a Lead .Net Developer at Hippo, you drive technical excellence within a multidisciplinary squad to deliver user-centred software. You guide architecture, pipelines, and delivery, collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve client problems at scale. You’ll mentor engineers, contribute to business development, and help raise the engineering profile externally. This role blends hands-on coding, leadership, and strategic influence in a fast-growing consultancy.

Pay / Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 Days Holiday + UK Public Holidays
• Perkbox discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance
• Volunteer days

Responsibilities

• Act as technical SME within the squad to ensure user-centred software aligns with business requirements and best practices
• Collaborate with colleagues to design and deliver client solutions
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, pre-empting bottlenecks
• Review and prioritise delivery workload and realign with evolving priorities
• Communicate progress and prototypes clearly to stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with team and stakeholders to overcome challenges
• Involved in recruitment, onboarding and line management of engineers; support professional development
• Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd externally via blogs, workshops, seminars or conferences

Key requirements

• Excellent experience in the .Net ecosystem, especially C# and ASP.NET MVC
• Proven track record of leading a delivery team to deliver robust solutions
• Expertise in Azure and DevOps
• Coaching and guiding others toward optimal solutions
• Excellent verbal/written communication in technical and non-technical terms
• Experience across the full development lifecycle delivering user-centred digital solutions
• Advanced full-stack skills: C#, F#, ASP.NET MVC, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• JavaScript library/framework experience (Node, React, Angular) preferred
• Containerisation expertise (Docker or Kubernetes)
• Expert knowledge of Microservices architecture and RESTful APIs
• Experience with agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, TDD)
• Designing/building native and web apps across scales and environments
• Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or ARM)
• Mastery of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, Atlassian)

• Strong communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Mentoring and coaching
• C#
• F#
• ASP.NET MVC

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