Engineering Manager (Mobile)

Who we are

CreateFuture is fast becoming the UK's most recognisable digital consultancy, with years of experience building digital products and services for major organisations whilst putting our people first. We have offices in the centre of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and London as well as remote employees located throughout the country. We are a team of creators - whether that's code, project plans, go to market strategies, culture initiatives, marketing campaigns, large language models or people policies. And together, with our clients, we create the future. This has seen us collaborate and partner across a multitude of industries and sectors, with the likes of PayPal, Adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert to name just a few. Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful products has enabled us to scale to over 500 people in the last couple of years, and it is our amazing people - along with the safe, supportive and friendly culture we have built - that makes CreateFuture a great place to work. Don't just take our word for it though, we have been recognised by Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row - across a number of categories - and our employee exit rate is astonishingly low.

Join us on our journey... Let's create something awesome, together, today.

About the role and team:

As a Mobile Engineering Manager at CreateFuture you lead a small, highly autonomous mobile team embedded with one of our clients, building consumer mobile products across iOS and Android. This is a hands-on leadership role: depending on the situation it spans mobile architecture and technical direction, leading delivery, growing your engineers, and being the person the client works with day to day. You line manage the engineers on your team and are accountable for how the team performs, delivers and grows.

You are deeply product-focused. You understand the product, its users and the client's business, and you point the team at the work that creates the most value rather than just the work in front of you. The defining quality of the role is that you make your team drive, not be driven: you own the outcome, get ahead of the work, make sure the right work reaches the right people and actually ships, and create the space for engineers to take real ownership. You take risks, move fast, own it, and if something goes wrong you fix it.

This is a role for someone who thrives on independence and ambiguity. You will often be working ahead of your leadership's day (across timezones), so you work autonomously, write everything down, surface blockers and decisions asynchronously, and drive questions to resolution yourself rather than waiting to be told. You keep momentum without needing constant real-time contact.

You lead best-in-class AI-assisted delivery, not generic AI use. You continually improve how the team works with AI: building and refining reusable skills and agents, working in feedback loops rather than one-shot prompting, and driving spec-driven development where clear specifications and guidelines steer the AI. Humans stay accountable for quality; the bar keeps rising.

You provide actionable feedback, technical guidance, mentoring and support, and you foster continuous improvement, growth and consultancy mindsets. The role represents CreateFuture as the engagement leader for the team, working with the client to understand their problems, manage expectations and drive business value forward.

What you'll be doing:

• Technical Leadership
• Direction: sets the technical direction across iOS and Android, making informed decisions on architecture, patterns and tooling, and staying close enough to the code to make the call and to coach well.
• Hands-on: where appropriate, works in the codebase alongside the team, using hands-on time deliberately, including to coach and model good practice, rather than to be the hero.
• AI-assisted Delivery: drives best-in-class AI-assisted delivery. Builds and improves reusable skills and agents, uses feedback loops so output gets better over time, and champions spec-driven development. Keeps humans accountable for every change and refuses to settle for generic AI use.
• Quality: sets and monitors appropriate standards, takes part in code reviews, and keeps the mobile codebases healthy and maintainable, favouring reversible, safely-releasable delivery.
• Learning: stays abreast of emerging mobile and AI tooling and evaluates its applicability.
• Problem-solving: troubleshoots complex issues, finds root causes, and fixes them.
• Team & People Leadership
• Culture: fosters a collaborative, ownership-taking, psychologically-safe environment where people take risks, move fast, own their work, and fix things when they break.
• Drive, not driven: grows engineers to own their work and make the call rather than waiting to be told, and steps back deliberately to create the space for them to lead.
• Autonomy: sets the team up to run independently.