Technical Lead (Mobile)

CreateFuture is a Version 1 company and AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first.

We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.

Our UK Benefits

• 35 days leave (including bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave.
• Financial coaching + 5% pension match.
• 40 hours of paid learning and development.

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CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row.

Join us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today.

About the role and team:

As a Technical Lead 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, self-review, and keep moving without constant direction, especially across timezones.

AI Uplift: raises the whole team's standard of AI usage, spreading good skills, agents and spec-driven practice rather than letting each person reinvent generic prompting.

Mentoring & Coaching: provides technical guidance, mentoring and support, developing people to a consistent, high standard.

Performance & Line Management: observes performance, gives concrete and actionable feedback, recognises achievements, and adheres to CreateFuture's line management accountabilities.

Client, Product & Delivery

Product-Obsessed: understands the client's product, users and business, drives the work that creates the most value, and spots new opportunities to enable the client and CreateFuture.

Right Work, Right People, Shipped: makes sure the right work reaches the right people and actually gets delivered, unblocking and routing rather than running ceremony.

Owns the Outcome: owns and communicates the delivery signal for the team so status, risk and the decisions needed are always clear, and escalates cleanly (issue, options, recommendation, deadline).

Readiness: gets ahead of the next work, shaping scope and approach with the client before delivery begins, so the team leads the work rather than inheriting it under pressure.

Async, Cross-Timezone Working: keeps a fast-moving, well-documented, asynchronous working rhythm so progress continues and blockers are visible even when the cli