CreateFuture is a Version 1 company and an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as Fanatics, 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 Bulgaria Benefits- Meal Vouchers (EdenRed): 102 euros per month loaded to your digital food voucher
- Private Health Insurance via Bulstrad
- Enhanced Sick Leave
- 45 hours per year towards learning and development
- 200 euros per year towards your learning & development
- Perkbox: rewards & discounts platform for saving and wellbeing
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 teamYou'll join our Bulgaria team, working side by side with clients and our delivery teams to turn architectural designs into production systems. Increasingly, our clients want products and platforms that are AI-native from the start. As an AI-enabled Software Engineer, you'll be both a hands-on individual contributor and a technical driving force in your team: closing the gap between design and delivery, recognising operational bottlenecks, and establishing good engineering practice in client environments. This role is based in Bulgaria, and you'll need to live there and have unrestricted right to work.
How we workCreateFuture is an AI-native organisation. Every core technical role is expected to:
- Work with AI-native delivery and workflow practices.
- Practise agentic engineering through at least one harness.
- Apply context engineering through prompts, skills, tools and harnesses.
- Know at least one runtime or language.
- Use CI/CD and automated quality practices to verify work in all its forms.
As a Senior AI-enabled Software Engineer, you'll develop application features using AI-assisted engineering, combining sound software engineering practice with agentic ways of working.
You'll bring credible, role-specific capability in:
- Application architecture and modular design.
- Application data, state, and persistence design.
- Application feature, API, interface, and service-integration engineering.
- Spec-driven development.
- Test-driven development.
- Secure application development.
- Application performance and operability.
- Context and workflow optimisation for agentic engineering.
- AI Agent Orchestration & Workflow Design.
- AI Evaluation, Observability & Guardrails.
- Java, Kotlin Multiplatform or .NET, with significant commercial experience in at least one.
You won't need depth in all of these, but experience in one or more of the following would be valuable:
- Front-end application development.
- Mobile application development.
- Back-end and service development.
- Cloud-native application development.
- Real-time and event-driven systems.
- Legacy application modernisation and migration.
- AI-enabled product features.
- Agentic development environments and harnesses.
- Agentic engineering evaluation and observability platforms.
- Resolve complex or ambiguous application engineering problems within a team or engagement, making sound judgement calls.
- Shape technical direction for application design and delivery, influencing how work gets done as well as what.
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients on application architecture, quality and engineering trade-offs.
- Coach and develop other engineers, and raise standards across our software engineering discipline.
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
Our hiring processWe try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.
It usually looks like this:
- Call with our Talent Acquisition Team
- Role specific capability interview
Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.
Inclusion at CreateFutureWe believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.
If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.
We look forward to your application!
Skills Required
- Live in Bulgaria
- Unrestricted right to work in Bulgaria
- Significant commercial experience with Java, Kotlin Multiplatform, or .NET
- Application architecture and modular design experience
- Application data, state, and persistence design experience
- Application feature, API, interface, and service-integration engineering experience
- Spec-driven development experience
- Test-driven development experience
- Secure application development experience
- Application performance and operability experience
- AI agent orchestration and workflow design experience
- AI evaluation, observability, and guardrails experience
- Experience with AI-native delivery and workflow practices
- Experience with agentic engineering through at least one harness
- Experience applying context engineering through prompts, skills, tools, and harnesses
- Knowledge of at least one runtime or programming language
- Experience with CI/CD and automated quality practices
- Front-end application development experience
- Mobile application development experience
- Back-end and service development experience
- Cloud-native application development experience
- Real-time and event-driven systems experience
- Legacy application modernization and migration experience
- AI-enabled product features experience
- Agentic development environments and harnesses experience
- Agentic engineering evaluation and observability platforms experience
- Ability to resolve complex or ambiguous application engineering problems
- Ability to shape technical direction for application design and delivery
- Client advisory experience regarding application architecture, quality, and engineering trade-offs
- Experience coaching and developing other engineers
What We Do
CreateFuture was built to take action. With our 500-strong team of software engineering, strategy and design experts, across Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Manchester, we’re determined to get you exactly what you need. As with our past clients, we get to the root of your challenge and do everything it takes to create positive solutions by building digital products and services that solve problems. With years of experience helping catalyse major organisations into action, our rapid growth has been driven by people who seek to understand before they solve. We care about our craft. We challenge each other by asking, “Why not?”. And we’re proud to collaborate and partner with the likes of PayPal, adidas, FanDuel, Money Saving Expert, Penguin Random House, Yorkshire Building Society and more. With CreateFuture, our people are at the forefront of every outcome and we know that a strong team dynamic is critical to success, so we’ll be there for you every step of the way. We draw on their unique skills for problem-solving – and helping your teams unleash their potential too. Put simply, we want to be an organisation that people want to work for and want to work with. You don’t need to have all the answers. Share your problem and we’ll go from there. Let’s create something incredible, together, today.
