Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions for a diverse range of Public and Private sector clients. We are recruiting for a Senior Mobile (iOS) Developer to join our Hippo Herd. We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology to solve complex problems and create lasting value. Our collaborative and agile culture empowers our teams to make a genuine impact.
As a Senior Mobile (iOS) Developer, you will play an important role in making Hippo the best Consultancy out there. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team combining data, design, product, delivery, analysis and engineering to deliver bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do.
You will act as a Senior Consultant to deliver Mobile Development services to our clients. Senior Mobile (iOS) Developers at Hippo are experienced practitioners who lead the technical delivery within a squad, ensuring technical excellence and mentoring others to maintain high standards of software engineering.
Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems beyond traditional boundaries. We leverage deep platform insights and continuous innovation to deliver awesome platforms that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data and digital services. The Senior Mobile (iOS) Developer will be a key player and implementer in this mission.
Your Role in a Nutshell
- Lead the production of user-centred software, ensuring development is based on business requirements and follows best practice.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to explore, design, and deliver solutions to complex client problems.
- Take ownership of mobile architectural decisions and deployment pipelines, resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur.
- Communicate and present prototypes, solutions, and progress to internal and external stakeholders in a clear, concise manner.
- Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome.
- Mentor other engineers and support consultants in their professional development through coaching and guidance.
- Promote Hippo’s Engineering Herd internally and externally through knowledge sharing, workshops, or blogs.
Essential Experience
- Excellent experience in Native Development, specifically with Swift (iOS).
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality, robust, and scalable native applications within a delivery team.
- Expertise in coaching and guiding others on the best way to achieve an optimal technical solution.
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical and non-technical terms.
- Extensive experience in the full development lifecycle delivering user-centred mobile solutions.
- Advanced skills in mobile architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture) and modularisation.
- Expert knowledge of mobile-centric integration, including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and Firebase.
- Strong grasp of the mobile release lifecycle, including automated testing and App Store/Play Store compliance.
- Proficiency in agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban, and TDD.
- Strong experience in mobile-specific CI/CD pipelines (Bitrise, Fastlane, or GitHub Actions).
Desirable Experience
- Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects or in a consultancy environment.
- Proficiency in Cross-Platform Frameworks such as Flutter (Dart).
Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on-top of a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
- Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
- 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
- Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions
- 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
- Tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo
At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.
We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.
Hi, we’re Hippo
At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society.
Have a look through our Website at Our Story & Purpose, Our Culture & Values, Case Studies and Our Solutions & Services to find out some more!
Hippo Locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.
