API Design Jobs in the City of London

19 of 19 API Design Jobs in the City of London

AWS DevOps Engineer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
deployment. Manage infrastructure, monitor performance, and collaborate across teams to maintain scalable, secure, and resilient systems. Key role and responsibilities Build, deploy, and monitor solutions using AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, ECS, ECR, Dynamo, S3 etc.) Integrate APIs into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Github workflows Design, deploy, and manage applications tailored to business needs … while customizing platforms and overseeing the full API lifecycle using Apigee Edge and X. Drive API strategy execution, provide technical support, and generate insights through analytics to enhance integrations and documentation. Key skills for this role Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible) is a must Proficiency with AWS cloud tools and architecture, including … based web applications Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Good knowledge of the Apigee platform or any APIM platform and its components Ability to generate custom analytics reports for API consumption and errors Implementation of API security and access control (OAuth, API keys, JWT, etc.) Familiarity with API design patterns, best practices, and performance optimization More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: £55000 - £60000/annum
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Senior API / PHP Developer – Fully Remote (UK) – £80,000+

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Venchr
Senior API/PHP Developer – Fully Remote (UK) – £80,000+ Venchr is partnering with a fast-growing SaaS company that’s redefining financial management in the luxury and yachting sector. Their platform unites accounting, payments, FX, and project management into a single, powerful ecosystem — helping clients worldwide streamline complex operations with ease. They’re now seeking a Lead PHP … Developer with a strong focus on API architecture and backend systems to join their fully remote UK-based engineering team. In this role, you’ll take ownership of designing, developing, and optimizing APIs that power mission-critical services. You’ll collaborate closely with product, DevOps, and frontend teams to ensure the platform remains scalable, secure, and future-proof. Beyond … hands-on coding, you’ll play a key part in setting technical standards, mentoring other engineers, and driving forward the API and integration strategy that underpins the company’s growth. What You’ll Bring Proven experience leading backend/API development using PHP and Laravel Expertise in RESTful API design, versioning, authentication, and performance optimization Strong More ❯
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Senior Software Engineer - Unified Client Experience (UCX)

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Hargreaves Lansdown
generation Unified Client Experience (UCX) frontend that will streamline client journeys across a range of products and services, in both web and mobile domains. It's an opportunity to design, architect and build a modern frontend using latest technologies and best practices to transform our savings and investment platform. The UCX team consolidates the efforts of the whole organisation … scale, regulated environments - ideally in Investment, Asset or Wealth Management. Solid experience in building and deploying frontend applications in React or React Native with hands-on knowledge of secure API design and authentication services. Experience in Java and Spring Boot, or iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin) along with exposure to Figma and Vercel is a big plus. Capable More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent, Work From Home
Salary: £95,000
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Lead Full-Stack Developer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Reed Technology
including: TypeScript/JavaScript (NextJS, NodeJS, Tailwind) Python (Django, Flask, or FastAPI) PostgreSQL Experience with building and scaling SaaS platforms in production. Strong background in software architecture, microservices, and API design. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Excellent communication skills, capable of motivating and aligning technical teams. Desirable: Experience with AI tools, APIs, ML More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent, Work From Home
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Senior Full Stack Engineer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Ocean Orchestra
reflects the great diversity of our real customers and users across the world. What You’ll Do Own our engineering stack from MVP to scale — backend, frontend, infra . Design architecture, choose tools, and set engineering standards. Work directly with early users to iterate quickly. Collaborate with the founding team on strategy, hiring, and scaling the tech team. Ship … high-quality, user-focused features (that change Oceans and planet) fast. What We’re Looking For 5+ years of backend expertise in Go including API design, microservices architecture, gRPC/REST services, and database design (PostgreSQL, Redis). Frontend proficiency with React/Next.js, responsive design, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript Cloud infrastructure knowledge including AWS … and opportunity. Expert in solving deep technical problems with customer outcomes top of mind. Ability to evaluate and make decisions based on a balanced assessment of key factors, including design, scalability, performance, technical debt and cost efficiency. Working highly collaboratively in a team environment. What We Offer Professional Impact & Growth Build a high-impact platform from emerging MVP to More ❯
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Senior Full Stack Engineer

london (city of london), south east england, united kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Ocean Orchestra
reflects the great diversity of our real customers and users across the world. What You’ll Do Own our engineering stack from MVP to scale — backend, frontend, infra . Design architecture, choose tools, and set engineering standards. Work directly with early users to iterate quickly. Collaborate with the founding team on strategy, hiring, and scaling the tech team. Ship … high-quality, user-focused features (that change Oceans and planet) fast. What We’re Looking For 5+ years of backend expertise in Go including API design, microservices architecture, gRPC/REST services, and database design (PostgreSQL, Redis). Frontend proficiency with React/Next.js, responsive design, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript Cloud infrastructure knowledge including AWS … and opportunity. Expert in solving deep technical problems with customer outcomes top of mind. Ability to evaluate and make decisions based on a balanced assessment of key factors, including design, scalability, performance, technical debt and cost efficiency. Working highly collaboratively in a team environment. What We Offer Professional Impact & Growth Build a high-impact platform from emerging MVP to More ❯
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Principal Software Engineer - Unified Client Experience (UCX)

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Hargreaves Lansdown
generation Unified Client Experience (UCX) frontend that will streamline client journeys across a range of products and services, in both web and mobile domains. It's an opportunity to design, architect and build a modern frontend using latest technologies and best practices to transform our savings and investment platform. The UCX team consolidates the efforts of the whole organisation … scale, regulated environments - ideally in Investment, Asset or Wealth Management. Solid experience in building and deploying frontend applications in React or React Native with hands-on knowledge of secure API design and authentication services. Experience in Java and Spring Boot, or iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin) along with exposure to Figma and Vercel is a big plus. Capable More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent, Work From Home
Salary: £10,000
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Software Engineering Manager - Unified Client Experience (UCX)

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Hargreaves Lansdown
generation Unified Client Experience (UCX) frontend that will streamline client journeys across a range of products and services, in both web and mobile domains. It's an opportunity to design, architect and build a modern frontend using latest technologies and best practices to transform our savings and investment platform. The UCX team consolidates the efforts of the whole organisation … scale, regulated environments - ideally in Investment, Asset or Wealth Management. Solid experience in building and deploying frontend applications in React or React Native with hands-on knowledge of secure API design and authentication services. Experience in Java and Spring Boot, or iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin) along with exposure to Figma and Vercel is a big plus. Capable More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent, Work From Home
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Staff Software Engineer - AI/ML

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™
influence: you’ll own the internal AI stack, mentor other engineers, and help define how AI and automation are adopted across the company. What You’ll Do Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of internal AI/ML systems for business intelligence. Build robust APIs, microservices, and data pipelines to power intelligent, data-driven tools. Develop retrieval-augmented generation … in Python plus at least one other backend language (TypeScript or Java preferred). Proven experience with AWS , containerisation, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Docker). Solid understanding of API design, data modelling, and microservice architecture. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical outcomes into business impact. Tech Environment Languages: Python, TypeScript, Java AI/LLM More ❯
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Staff Software Engineer - AI/ML

london (city of london), south east england, united kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™
influence: you’ll own the internal AI stack, mentor other engineers, and help define how AI and automation are adopted across the company. What You’ll Do Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of internal AI/ML systems for business intelligence. Build robust APIs, microservices, and data pipelines to power intelligent, data-driven tools. Develop retrieval-augmented generation … in Python plus at least one other backend language (TypeScript or Java preferred). Proven experience with AWS , containerisation, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Docker). Solid understanding of API design, data modelling, and microservice architecture. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical outcomes into business impact. Tech Environment Languages: Python, TypeScript, Java AI/LLM More ❯
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Senior Software Engineer

City, London, United Kingdom
Retelligence
the Software Engineering group. In addition to contributing to feature development, you will play a role in shaping the technology and process strategies, and occasionally lead innovation or software design initiatives. Key Responsibilities: Develop new features with a strong focus on high-quality code. Conduct peer code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to best practices. Participate in daily … organization's objectives. Work closely with tech leads, engineers, testers, and other personnel to deliver high-quality products. Take ownership of initiatives related to innovation or addressing technical debt. Design, document, and communicate system solutions with a balanced focus on time, quality, cost, and performance. Collaborate with colleagues across the organization to gain buy-in and feedback on proposals … Required Knowledge & Experience: Essential: Strong proficiency in C# at a commercial level. Solid experience with .NET Core and related open-source technologies. Knowledge of Object Orientation, SOA, and relevant design patterns. Experience with modern software development practices, including agile methodologies , version control, code reviews, and continuous integration. Understanding of concurrency, asynchrony, and parallelism. Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP 80,000 - 95,000 Annual
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Software Engineer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Venn Apps
products. Our stack includes React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You’ll collaborate closely with designers to create exceptional user experiences, and with platform engineers to design and implement serverless APIs and background services that scale globally. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing startup as we enter the next phase of expansion. … as a software engineer (or equivalent commercial experience) Strong knowledge of React, TypeScript, and Next.js Experience with GCP or another cloud provider (e.g. AWS, Firebase, or Azure) Understanding of API design and asynchronous data handling Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and version control (Git) Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail Comfortable working in a fast More ❯
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Software Engineer

london (city of london), south east england, united kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Venn Apps
products. Our stack includes React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You’ll collaborate closely with designers to create exceptional user experiences, and with platform engineers to design and implement serverless APIs and background services that scale globally. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing startup as we enter the next phase of expansion. … as a software engineer (or equivalent commercial experience) Strong knowledge of React, TypeScript, and Next.js Experience with GCP or another cloud provider (e.g. AWS, Firebase, or Azure) Understanding of API design and asynchronous data handling Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and version control (Git) Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail Comfortable working in a fast More ❯
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Founding Engineer (Backend)

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Affinity Labs
in tight cycles. This is an early-stage, hands-on role with significant autonomy and responsibility to drive backend product development, collaborating closely with founders, creators, and product/design to turn lean specs into reliable, scalable services. Responsibilities Implement features end-to-end on the backend (APIs → data models → integrations) and maintain quality while moving fast. Run tight … safety guardrails). Essential Requirements 2–4+ years building production backends/services , with shipped work and clear ownership. Strong Python (FastAPI) and database skills ( PostgreSQL/MongoDB ); solid API design fundamentals. Familiarity with AWS serverless patterns and Docker for bespoke services; basic CI/CD concepts. Comfortable with Redis (caching/sessions) and common queue/messaging More ❯
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Founding Engineer (Backend)

london (city of london), south east england, united kingdom
Affinity Labs
in tight cycles. This is an early-stage, hands-on role with significant autonomy and responsibility to drive backend product development, collaborating closely with founders, creators, and product/design to turn lean specs into reliable, scalable services. Responsibilities Implement features end-to-end on the backend (APIs → data models → integrations) and maintain quality while moving fast. Run tight … safety guardrails). Essential Requirements 2–4+ years building production backends/services , with shipped work and clear ownership. Strong Python (FastAPI) and database skills ( PostgreSQL/MongoDB ); solid API design fundamentals. Familiarity with AWS serverless patterns and Docker for bespoke services; basic CI/CD concepts. Comfortable with Redis (caching/sessions) and common queue/messaging More ❯
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Front Office Technical Team Lead

City of London, London, United Kingdom
CMC Markets UK Plc
with your front-end counterpart to ensure alignment across the stack, to support the firm's market-making business across ranging Equities, FX, Crypto & Commodities asset classes Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the infrastructure estate, microservices, web APIs, and the business logic delivery, keeping projects on track and within scope. Drive technical decisions and trade-offs balancing … the role, including all relevant regulatory and legislative training KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Strong expertise in Java, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, or related backend frameworks Solid understanding of API design, microservices, and distributed messaging architectures Solid experience in advocating for and mentoring other team members, promoting coding reviews, enforcing team conventions Track record in driving initiatives/ More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
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SC Contract Technical Architect

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Axiologik
within the organisation. Contract details: 700 DR Inside IR35 12 month contract ASAP start date Hybrid - as and when required in London (infrequent travel) Skillset: Background in Software Architecture API design (REST is preferable). ++ Designing for use with User Interfaces would be a plus. Event-driven architecture patterns Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes (Containers) would be More ❯
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SC Contract Technical Architect

london (city of london), south east england, united kingdom
Axiologik
within the organisation. Contract details: 700 DR Inside IR35 12 month contract ASAP start date Hybrid - as and when required in London (infrequent travel) Skillset: Background in Software Architecture API design (REST is preferable). ++ Designing for use with User Interfaces would be a plus. Event-driven architecture patterns Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes (Containers) would be More ❯
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Senior Backend Engineer (Platform & Security)

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Ventula Consulting Limited
you are excited by the challenge of building the commercial and trust-based foundation of a new product category, this role is for you. Key Responsibilities Monetization & Platform Architecture ? Design, build, and own the end-to-end metering and entitlements system that powers our freemium business model, targeting a 30% premium conversion rate. ? Architect and manage our core database … e.g., PostgreSQL) and caching (e.g., Redis) systems. ? Demonstrated experience building services on a major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). ? Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API design. Security & Compliance ? A deep and demonstrable security-first mindset. ? Hands-on experience implementing security best practices at the application layer, including authentication (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT), authorization (RBAC More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent, Work From Home
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API Design
the City of London
10th Percentile
£70,500
25th Percentile
£72,500
Median
£80,000
75th Percentile
£108,750
90th Percentile
£116,000