16 of 16 Distributed Systems Jobs in the West Midlands

Head of Engineering (AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Birmingham, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
deep observability, and human-in-the-loop controls where required. We are looking for a Head of Engineering to scale these production-grade agentic systems, strengthen platform reliability, and lead global engineering teams to deliver a secure, highly reliable, and operationally mature SaaS platform. This role sits … intersection of AI-first engineering, distributed systems, and customer impact, working closely with the leadership team, customer success, development, DevOps, and security teams to ensure engineering accelerates, rather than blocks, sustainable growth. This is not a maintenance role. This is a build, scale, and lead role. Why This ...

Satellite Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
client is leading the way in next-generation communications, building laser communication systems and software-defined networking platforms for aerospace and deep-space applications. With technology acquired from Google, theyre creating solutions that let satellites, aircraft, and even cislunar networks communicate seamlessly essentially bringing space and Earth … What Youll Be Doing Building and maintaining delay-tolerant networking products, platforms, and APIs using Rust, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers Working on scalable and distributed systems using Kubernetes Debugging, optimising, and improving systems for full-scale production environments Collaborating with front-end developers to integrate user-facing ...

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£90,000 - £105,000 per annum
used by clients to explore trends and drive smarter advertising decisions. THE ROLE As Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will help shape a distributed data and compute platform designed for large-scale ingestion, transformation and machine learning workloads. Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following: Designing … optimising of distributed systems for high-throughput data processing Build services and tools in Python or Go, with the opportunity to cross-train in the other. Work across data pipelines, data warehouses and processing frameworks to support analytics and AI products, contributing to new applications and evolving existing ...

Forward Deployed Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Acceler8 Talent
Location
Telford, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Lead 8–12+ week technical implementations Write and push production backend code Own API integrations and complex data workflows Debug SQL, async services, and distributed systems Work directly with customer engineering teams Influence product roadmap from the field High autonomy. High visibility. Real ownership. This is hands … What We're Looking For Strong backend engineering fundamentals (Python, TypeScript, or similar) Deep comfort with SQL (joins, aggregations, performance tradeoffs) Experience shipping production systems in B2B SaaS API fluency: designing, debugging, integrating Comfort reasoning about distributed systems and async behavior Strong communication - you can explain technical ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Metomic
Location
Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Software Engineer — Data Systems Who we are We're Metomic; a data security platform helping enterprises understand and protect sensitive data across their SaaS environments. We process large volumes of real customer data daily and our systems must remain fast, accurate, and reliable under load. Why this role … exists Our product depends on data systems that behave predictably at scale. We're investing in strengthening our data platform - ingestion, storage, querying, streaming, and performance. We need an engineer who understands how architecture decisions affect performance, correctness, and operability. This role will help us evolve and scale systems ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
YLD
Location
Telford, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; Experience building and maintaining APIs and backend services, including SaaS platforms; Familiarity with modern infrastructure and distributed systems; Solid understanding of modern deployment practices, including Docker, containers, and Kubernetes; Curiosity and openness to working in AI-assisted development environments, including ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Synanetics
Location
Birmingham, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
letter to help us understand why. Around 5 years of professional experience in a full‐stack software engineering role. Knowledge of designing and building distributed systems or microservices. Experience of relational data stores. Experience working with public cloud environments. Strong understanding of agile methodologies and CI/… Synanetics was created to help healthcare turn the huge amounts of complex data they generate into meaningful action. We provide solutions that integrate internal systems and enable seamless interoperability, allowing organisations to use, share, and analyse data effectively. Our core belief is that by empowering clinicians and providers with ...

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 - £120,000 per annum
clients understand online behaviour, spot emerging trends, and optimise advertising strategy. THE ROLE: As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will Build and enhance distributed data pipelines capable of handling huge-scale datasets. Develop and maintain the data architecture that underpins their ML and AI workflows. Work across Python … with the ability to pick up the second language. Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with big data warehouses. Solid understanding of distributed systems and data processing architecture. Experience in AWS, Kubernetes, BigQuery, or GCP is beneficial. THE BENEFITS: You will receive a salary ...

Full Stack Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
ZENOVO LTD
Location
Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £90,000 per annum, Inc benefits
years of relevant full-stack development experience Experience with React/Vue, Nuxt/Next, NodeJS, Typescript, PostgreSQL and Redis. Experience building scalable backend distributed systems or have worked with containerized backend microservices. Experience developing mobile applications using Ionic. Experience in API development, authentication methods, and database design ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Solihull, West Midlands, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
large-scale public sector program. This unique development opportunity involves creating and implementing solutions for our portfolio of biometric products, supporting live systems, and diagnosing incidents. You will be part of a collaborative team that prides itself on engineering the best possible Java code. Key Responsibilities: Develop and implement … solutions for biometric products. Support live systems and diagnose incidents. Collaborate with the team to ensure high-quality Java code. Essential Skills and Experience: Proficiency in Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, Quartz, SQL Database (PostgreSQL), JPA (Hibernate), REST and SOAP Web Services ...

Java Developer (SC + NPPV3 Cleared)

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 - £500/day 450-500/day (Outside IR35)
Microservices, REST, SOAP Web Services, JPA (Hibernate). Experience of developing Java solutions for large-scale integration projects including: microservices, web services, messaging + distributed systems. Connecting processes across multiple systems using message brokers like ActiveMQ. Robust experience of Web Services, SOAP, RESTful), Containerization (Docker), and testing frameworks … Mockito, JUnit, Powermock, DBUnit, JMock, TestContainers). Supporting live systems + diagnose/resolving incidents. Continuous Integration methodologies such as: Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Git + Stash Repository. AWS Cloud Services (EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, Cloudwatch, KMS). Any experience of Linux, Atlassian products, open-source DBs, PostgreSQL ...

Lead Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Infoplus Technologies UK Ltd
Location
Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day Outside IR35
Responsibilities: Develop and implement solutions for biometric products. Support live systems and diagnose incidents. Collaborate with the team to ensure high-quality Java code. Essential Skills and Experience: Proficiency in Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, Quartz, SQL Database (PostgreSQL), JPA (Hibernate), REST … Docker, TDD, Agile (Scrum) Public sector experience. 8-10 years of hands-on experience with large-scale Spring-based Java projects. Experience supporting live systems and diagnosing incidents. Experience in large-scale integration projects involving microservices, messaging, web services, and distributed systems. Experience with web services (SOAP ...

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Hiring Organisation
Zettafleet
Location
Telford, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
background in Machine Learning. This is an applied role, and we are looking to hire a software engineer with experience in cloud computing and distributed systems. In this role, you will: Design and develop highly-scalable, fault tolerant and event driven systems that directly power our core products. … confident in our deployments. What we are looking for: Back-end development: 5+ years of industry experience building reliable and scalable back-end systems with an object-oriented language. Cloud-native technologies: Experience in architecting and deploying in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP or Azure), an understanding of containerisation ...

Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Searchstone Ltd
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75,000
Communicate architectural choices clearly to client stakeholders Contribute to internal architecture standards and ways of working What were looking for Experience designing and delivering distributed systems/API-led solutions in enterprise environments Strong understanding of modern engineering stacks (ideally TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, React/Next.js) Integration … experience with enterprise systems and databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) Familiarity with data solutions (warehouses/lakehouses, modelling, pipeline patterns) Good grasp of non-functional requirements (security, performance, resilience, operability) Familiarity with CI/CD and deployment practices (Azure experience a plus) Comfortable being hands-on where ...

Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
Solihull, England, United Kingdom
Responsibilities: Develop and implement solutions for biometric products. Support live systems and diagnose incidents. Collaborate with the team to ensure high-quality Java code. Essential Skills and Experience: Proficiency in Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, Quartz, SQL Database (PostgreSQL), JPA (Hibernate), REST … Docker, TDD, Agile (Scrum) Public sector experience. 6-8 years of hands-on experience with large-scale Spring-based Java projects. Experience supporting live systems and diagnosing incidents. Experience in large-scale integration projects involving microservices, messaging, web services, and distributed systems. Experience with web services (SOAP ...