Intermediate Python Developer

About The Role

Hippo Digital is recruiting Intermediate Python Developers to join our Hippo Herd. Intermediate Python Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems beyond traditional boundaries. We leverage deep data 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 Intermediate Python Developer will play a role in this mission.

Hippo’s Intermediate Python Developers have great experience, are keen learners and wanting to grow and develop their technical skillset. You will act as an intermediate consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices both internally and to our clients.

• Produce quality software for a wide range of public and private sector clients
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design and deliver solutions to client problems
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur
• Help with presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear concise manner
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
• Work within Hippo’s Engineering Herd to share best practices

• Strong Python skills
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• The full development lifecycle delivering user‑centred digital solutions
• Full-stack development experience including HTML & CSS
• JavaScript library and framework experience is preferable – Node, React, Angular
• Containerisation experience – Docker or Kubernetes or similar
• Restful API Services experience
• Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban and TDD
• Experience in designing and building native and web applications, across a variety of scales and platform environments
• Experience in public cloud (AWS or Azure) and Dev Ops
• Previous experience of using Infrastructure As Code and CI/CD tools would be highly
• Previous experience of working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 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

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.

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data‑informed evidence, human‑centred…