Flutter Mobile Lead Engineer (Hands-on)

Digital Waffle; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle is hiring an Engineering Team Lead (Mobile/Flutter) to guide a Flutter team and set mobile architecture standards. You will ship production apps, stay hands-on, and raise the team’s mobile capability with close collaboration to the Senior Engineer.

The role emphasises mentoring engineers, owning design and quality, and driving secure, scalable mobile delivery in a product-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Proven commercial Flutter and Dart experience with production apps.
• Mobile architecture, lifecycle, state management, iOS/Android release pipelines.
• Previous Team Lead / senior role with people leadership responsibility.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, automated testing, code review, secure development.
• Strong communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in Agile, product-aligned teams focusing on customer value.
• Willingness to coach engineers of varying levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead a product-aligned engineering team building and iterating the mobile app in Flutter and Dart.
• Stay deeply hands-on in the codebase, writing production Flutter code and setting the standard for mobile architecture, patterns and craft.
• Partner closely with the Senior Engineer on the team to raise the overall mobile capability of the group.
• Coach and mentor senior, midweight and junior engineers, taking accountability for team-level decisions while empowering the team to collaborate and build consensus.
• Take ownership of the design, development, quality and documentation of software of medium-to-high complexity.
• Champion a customer-centric, test-and-learn approach to delivery across the team.
• Identify and implement opportunities to optimise development and deployment processes.
• Design and develop solutions with security controls engineered in from the outset.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools and modern development standards across the team.
• Collaborate within a wider Team Lead group to share practice horizontally across the engineering function.

Skills

Flutter

Dart

Team Leadership

CI/CD

Test Automation

Secure Development

Job description

Digital Waffle is hiring an Engineering Team Lead (Mobile/Flutter) to guide a Flutter team and set mobile architecture standards. You will ship production apps, stay hands-on, and raise the team’s mobile capability with close collaboration to the Senior Engineer.

The role emphasises mentoring engineers, owning design and quality, and driving secure, scalable mobile delivery in a product-driven environment.