Senior Mobile (iOS) Developer

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. 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.

• 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.

• Excellent experience in native development 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 and 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 such as 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 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).

• Previous experience working on GOV/NHS projects or in a consultancy environment.
• Proficiency in cross platform frameworks such as Flutter (Dart).

Alongside a competitive salary, 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 avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicle 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 actively encourage applications from under represented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. 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.

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. Candidates should be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices and be open to working on site at a Hippo office or at an in or out of town client location for a number of days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 to help make your move a smooth one.