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Join the Engineering Enablement team at the heart of Quote Modernisation the most significant engineering transformations Quote has undertaken in recent years. Quote is the mission-critical pricing and promotions platform serving over 28 million UK shoppers every week across every channel, from tills to websites, with global reach on the horizon.
Our current monolithic architecture and ageing technology stack are significant barriers to productivity, stability, and innovation. We’re fixing that. The Quote Modernisation programme is built on five strategic pillars: architectural modernisation, technology stack revitalisation, quality and resilience, delivery acceleration, and engineering excellence. We’re aiming for 2–3x improvement in our ability to design, build, and release new product capabilities.
The Engineering Enablement team is central to this transformation. Operating under an ‘Enablement First’ principle, we lay the foundations before the broader teams build on them. That means creating the Micronaut application template, standardised logging and metrics libraries, feature flagging infrastructure, and quality gates that other engineers depend on daily. We work collaboratively across Retail and Technology to make sure we only build components that genuinely add value.
This role sits at the intersection of core Java engineering and developer experience. You’ll write high-quality production Java, but you’ll also care deeply about the experience of engineers building on what you create. That means investing in the clarity of our tooling, the speed of feedback loops, the robustness of our CI/CD pipeline, and how easy it is for a new engineer to be productive from day one.
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Build and maintain the
shared, standardised components that underpin Quote Modernisation including the
Micronaut application template, feature flagging library, canary releases and
standardised logging and metrics libraries.
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Drive adoption of these
components across engineering teams, working closely with pilot teams to ensure
they meet real development needs.
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Establish and automate
quality gates covering code coverage, static analysis, performance, and
security treating them as first-class citizens in the pipeline.
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Champion schema-first
development and standardised build tooling to reduce inconsistency and
cognitive load across services.
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Support the migration from
self-managed infrastructure (Couchbase, Kafka) to managed cloud services,
reducing operational overhead for engineering teams.
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Contribute to canary
release infrastructure and feature flagging capabilities that decouple
deployment from release.
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Identify and remove
friction in engineering workflows: slow pipelines, flaky tests, unclear
documentation, painful onboarding and fix them systematically.
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Champion and continuously
improve the inner developer loop: build times, test feedback, and local
development setup.
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Write documentation that
engineers actually want to read: clear, concise, and kept up to date, including
runbooks and architectural decision records.
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Gather feedback from fellow
engineers on pain points and advocate for improvements backed by data,
including DORA metrics and developer experience surveys.
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Treat our CI/CD pipeline as
a product in its own right measuring, improving, and communicating its
performance.
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Design and implement
robust, scalable systems using deep JVM and Java ecosystem expertise, including
modern Java concurrency with virtual threads.
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Translate product and
engineering requirements into well-structured, maintainable code.
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Write test-driven features
following TDD and BDD cycles, with a focus on tests that mitigate real-world
risk rather than just coverage numbers.
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Apply SOLID principles and
cohesive design to build software that is easy to understand, maintain, and
onboard new engineers onto.
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Support production systems,
resolve incidents, and conduct blameless post-incident reviews that generate
genuine learning and tracked outcomes.
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Mentor and support fellow
engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and psychological safety.
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Share knowledge across the
wider engineering community through code review, documentation, and internal
talks.
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Collaborate with product
stakeholders and engineers across teams to shape features and architectural
decisions.
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Prototype and evaluate new
tools and technologies with a focus on developer productivity and engineering
quality.
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Strong experience with Java
8+, including modern language features and JVM internals.
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Hands-on experience with
cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
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Proficiency with both SQL
and NoSQL databases.
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Proven ability to design
and scale distributed systems.
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Familiarity with Agile
methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, or similar.
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Exposure to reactive
programming paradigms; willingness to move beyond them as we adopt virtual
threads.
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You think about the build
experience as much as the build output fast feedback loops, clear error
messages, and smooth onboarding matter to you.
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Experience owning or
materially improving CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure
Pipelines).
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Comfort writing and
maintaining developer documentation: READMEs, runbooks, and architectural
decision records.
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A track record of
identifying toil or friction in engineering workflows and taking ownership to
fix them.
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Experience building or
contributing to shared internal tooling, platform capabilities, or libraries
used by other engineers.
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Familiarity with DORA
metrics and using data to drive engineering improvements.
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Bonus: experience with
Micronaut, or building standardised application templates and golden-path
tooling.
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Bonus: experience with
eCommerce, pricing, or high-throughput API systems.
