Hippo Digital Limited Hiring for Intermediate Software Engineer Job at Birmingham, England Full Time

About The Role
Hippo Digital is recruiting Intermediate Software Engineers (Intermediate Consultants) to join our Hippo Herd. Intermediate Software Engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.
Hippo’s Intermediate Software Engineers play a pivotal part working in multi-disciplinary squads whilst developing their own skills to become experts in their field. As an Intermediate Software Engineer, you will provide expertise in software engineering practices both internally and to our clients. You will support projects in a collaborative manner, maintain client relationships and be passionate about your continuous professional development.
Your role in nutshell:

• Produce software for Hippo and our clients – front-end, back-end, platform, we do it all, but you don’t need to be an expert in it all
• Create web applications used by public and staff – this includes researching with members of the public to understand their needs
• Create secure, accessible services in a variety of frameworks and languages adhering to best practices and open standards.
• Work within an agile, collaborative, multidisciplinary team
• Develop software solutions in native cloud environments leveraging on services from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud (GCP)
• Create solutions following industry best practices and using techniques such as CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Utilise the latest standards and approaches to solving problems
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders
• Work with the Hippo community to share best practice to ensure high standards
• Take control and be passionate about your own professional development

Skills and experience that you need

• Strong software development skills with experience of the full development lifecycle developing user-centred digital solutions
• Skilled in developing software solutions using a variety of frameworks and across an array of different programming languages such as Java or Python with a willingness to learn others
• Experience of developing solutions in a Cloud/Serverless environment using AWS (including associated services), however other cloud platforms such as Azure or Google Cloud would be considered
• Infrastructure As Code experience – Cloudformation, Terraform or ARM or similar
• Passionate about producing re-useable, clean, concise code
• Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar
• Excellent team working, collaborative and communication skills
• Experience of working in an agile environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to think outside of the box
• Consultancy and/or .GOV sector experience would be highly desirable

What makes us great
In addition to your salary you will receive:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of perks and discounts
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
• private health cover
• private dental cover
• additional company pension contributions
• additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• wellbeing contribution
• charity contributions

Hi, we’re Hippo.
We’re a digital service design consultancy that works closely with our clients to create digital products and services that work for everyone. Since our inception, we have quickly established ourselves as a leading supplier of digital leaders, service design teams and delivery expertise. We support large-scale digital transformation programmes to public and private sector organisations looking to truly embrace digital services to innovate and evolve. We aspire to add value and leave a lasting benefit within those institutes. Our philosophy is to ensure the user is at the core of everything we do, research, design and deliver. Collaborating with us means embracing a digital-first strategy with people first design, which will genuinely create lasting change and positive impact.
Our Hippo offices are in Leeds, London, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester. However, we invite candidates to apply from anywhere in the UK who can be flexible regarding location. We offer a relocation support package of up to £8k to help cover the cost of moving somewhere within commuting distance of one of our locations. Please note that due to the nature of the business, we may also request that you work from client locations or work from home.
How Hippo Digital Embraces Diversity & Equal Opportunity
Hippo Digital is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion. For us, diversity and inclusion are not just tick-boxing activities but a chance to make meaningful long-term change. A diverse workforce means that we can unlock our ability to innovate, be creative, be better problem solvers and provide an inclusive environment for everyone. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £36,000.00-£52,000.00 per year