Digital services and enterprise architecture for regulated industries
Hippo is a 201–500-person digital services firm in Leeds building bespoke solutions using Python, JavaScript, React, and AWS. The stack is modern but conservative—heavy on infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and testing frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber, k6)—and the hiring mix (13 senior engineers, 13 total senior roles across design and product) signals a delivery-focused, high-touch consulting model rather than a product business. Active pain points around legacy cloud migration and manual deployment processes suggest they're solving infrastructure modernization for enterprise clients with compliance overhead.
Hippo delivers custom digital services and enterprise architecture consulting to mid-market and enterprise organizations in the UK. The firm combines design, software engineering, and data-informed approaches to solve complex organizational problems—particularly around digital transformation, cloud migration, and system integration. Their project work spans enterprise data architecture definition, third-party supplier integration, and enterprise architecture artifact maintenance. The organization is structured around engineering, design, and product teams, with a hiring acceleration phase underway across all departments.
Hippo's primary stack includes Python, JavaScript/Node.js, React, Django/FastAPI, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and CloudFormation. Testing and deployment tools include Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber, and k6.
Hippo is headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK, and currently hires exclusively within the United Kingdom.
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