1 to 25 of 40 Distributed Systems Jobs in Central London

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Senior Software Engineer (Sports betting) Up to £120,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits London | Python | Java | GCP | Real-Time Distributed Systems Build systems where performance really matters. If you're a Senior Software Engineer who gets excited by high-performance systems, distributed architecture … role where you'll simply be maintaining an existing code-base. You'll be solving complex engineering problems, shaping architecture and working on systems where performance, scalability and reliability genuinely matter. You'll have significant technical ownership, influence over engineering decisions and the opportunity to work alongside a highly ...

Backend Developer Golang Node Pub / Sub

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Software Engineer (Go/Node Pub/Sub) Remote/Hybrid to £120k + Equity Are you an experienced Backend Developer who enjoys building distributed systems, real-time infrastructure and solving complex scalability challenges? You could be progressing your career at a high growth technology company whose messaging … Developer, you'll join the team responsible for the core messaging platform that underpins the company's real-time infrastructure. Working on highly scalable distributed systems, you'll design and build new platform capabilities, improve performance and reliability and solve complex engineering problems at scale. You'll contribute ...

AI-Native Systems Engineer

Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
Native Systems Engineer We are looking for an AI-Native Systems Engineer. You will combine deep systems engineering expertise with AI-native delivery practices to design, validate and deliver solutions through small, highly capable teams augmented by AI agents. Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture. … Advanced knowledge of algorithms, data structures and computational complexity. Understanding of operating systems, CPU architecture and compilation concepts. Experience with cloud-scale engineering on AWS or equivalent platforms. Strong understanding of networking, protocols and distributed computing principles. Strong systems programming experience using languages such as Go, Rust ...

Python Technical Lead FinTech

Hiring Organisation
Run-Time Group Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
products. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, and strategic decision-making. Required Skills & Experience Python Expertise 7+ years building production systems with Python. Microservices Strong experience designing and scaling distributed microservice architectures. Cloud Platforms Deep knowledge of AWS/GCP/Azure services. Databases … Proficiency with PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, or similar. Messaging Systems Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or event-streaming platforms. CI/CD Strong understanding of automated testing, deployment pipelines, and observability. Leadership Proven ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders, and deliver complex projects. FinTech Domain Knowledge Experience in payments, trading, banking ...

Machine Learning Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Lead Are you passionate about designing and deploying intelligent machine learning solutions that drive business impact? Do you enjoy leading teams, building scalable ML systems, and turning complex data into innovative products and services? About the team: We are a software engineering team responsible for developing and supporting business … Engineering, supporting production AI/ML, LLM/RAG, and agentic workflow capabilities for legal content products. In addition to writing code on complex systems, this position provides technical direction on architecture, MLOps, responsible AI, legacy system integration, AWS-based delivery, and AI-assisted development practices. The position does ...

Senior Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£120000 - £150000/annum
strong C#/.NET engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems and wants to have genuine influence over the architecture and direction of the systems they build. You will work on a combination of greenfield development and the continuous improvement of established platforms, building high-performance, reliable and scalable … significant software development projects from initial design through to production Contribute to and lead architectural and technical design decisions Design and develop scalable systems supporting automated trading, research and data-driven applications Work closely with quantitative researchers and traders to understand requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions ...

Staff Software Engineer - AI

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
Competencies - 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep hands-on experience designing, coding, testing, and operating scalable, resilient, production-grade backend systems and cloud-native services - Expert-level coding capability in modern programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, or similar, with the ability to personally … Azure, with strong experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Container Service, or equivalent technologies in production environments - Strong experience designing and implementing application programming interfaces, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, vector databases, observability, and automated deployment pipelines - Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction while ...

Senior Software Engineer

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
with business outcomes. Ideally, you'll bring Strong experience developing software using C#/.NET and object-oriented design principles. Experience designing and building distributed systems, APIs and scalable applications. Knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures and cloud-native development, ideally within Azure . Experience with CI/ ...

Principal Software Engineer - Platform Engineering - Accelerator Business

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
liaison for product, business, and security stakeholders, translating technical decisions into business impact. Lead the design and delivery of composable, secure, and scalable infrastructure systems and capabilities. Own the operational stability of production systems ("You Build It, You Run It"), automating recurring issues and establishing DORA/SLIs … organisation, leading technical evaluations with internal and external partners. Champion FinOps principles to drive significant cloud cost optimisation and guide performance tuning of distributed systems. Architects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational ...

Senior Java Architect - Payments

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
modern engineering practices Architect payment solutions supporting real-time payments, cross-border transactions, settlement, reconciliation, and regulatory requirements Design integration patterns across enterprise systems, third-party providers, and banking platforms Drive iterative delivery, stakeholder engagement, demonstrations, and technical progress reporting Collaborate with Business, Integration, Data, and DevOps Architects … Financial Services, or other highly regulated environments Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise-scale backend development Strong knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems Experience designing event-driven solutions using Kafka or similar messaging technologies Strong understanding of API-first architecture, REST services, and enterprise integration ...

Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure - ThousandEyes

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the Cisco technology portfolio, delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios. Our distributed Site Reliability Engineering team of approximately nine engineers owns the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the platform while … application development teams. We believe in operations, infrastructure, and everything as code, creating a collaborative and pragmatic environment where engineers can manage large-scale systems that receive hundreds of millions of messages per hour. Your Impact Design andoperate large-scale, highly available distributed systems that allow ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
journey. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our next generation SRE patterns, reliability frameworks, observability strategy, and performance engineering capabilities across globally distributed systems. This role is ideal for an SRE specialist who thrives in fast paced front office environments, enjoys direct interaction with traders, and wants … asset classes (Equities, Fixed Income, FX) to understand workflows, pain points, and reliability priorities. Act as a trusted engineering partner to the desk, ensuring systems are stable, performant, and aligned with business needs. Support live trading environments, including incident response, root cause analysis, and post mortem leadership. Work ...

Software Engineering or SRE, PhD Intern, 2027

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
internet. We drive reliability and performance on a massive scale. You will work on software development projects to keep important business generating-critical systems up and running, from code-level troubleshooting of traffic anomalies to maintenance of our services from monitoring and alerts to building automation infrastructure. Google … assistant, personal projects, etc.) with programming in either: C++, Java, Python, or Go. Research experience in algorithms, architecture, artificial intelligence, compilers, database, data mining, distributed systems, machine learning, networking, or systems. Relevant practical or internship experience with one or more of the following: web application development, Unix/ ...

Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
support. Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or similar roles supporting business-critical applications. Strong foundation in Linux/Unix systems administration, scripting, troubleshooting, and infrastructure concepts. Hands-on experience with Ansible and Kubernetes in enterprise or production environments. Demonstrated ability to define and operationalize … Hands-on experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk. Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills in complex distributed or production environments. Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications Experience ...

AI Engineer III - Agentic AI

Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
redefining the experiences our commercial customers and card members expect. Within Amex Technology, we are building platforms, products, and governance that enable agentic AI systems to operate responsibly and at scale across the enterprise. Our focus is on agentic AI development: designing intelligent, adaptive systems that can plan … reason, and act across complex workflows with appropriate levels of autonomy. These systems power autonomous workflows, decision support, and customer-facing experiences—while meeting the high standards for security, explainability, reliability, and compliance required in financial services. We partner closely with product, design, and business teams to deliver agentic ...

Senior AI Engineer II - Agentic AI

Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
redefining the experiences our commercial customers and card members expect. Within Amex Technology, we are building platforms, products, and governance that enable agentic AI systems to operate responsibly and at scale across the enterprise. Our focus is on agentic AI development: designing intelligent, adaptive systems that can plan … reason, and act across complex workflows with appropriate levels of autonomy. These systems power autonomous workflows, decision support, and customer-facing experiences-while meeting the high standards for security, explainability, reliability, and compliance required in financial services. We partner closely with product, design, and business teams to deliver agentic ...

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
when they imagine cutting-edge AI work. That's exactly why this role is interesting. CFC's Data & AI unit is building production agentic systems that automate complex underwriting decisions - not chatbots, not copilots bolted onto legacy workflows, but autonomous multi-step AI agents that reason over unstructured data … goal is to multiply engineering delivery by an order of magnitude: not by cutting corners or generating throwaway code, but by designing robust systems and processes that let agents handle well-defined work while engineers focus on architecture, design, and the problems that actually require human judgment. This ...

Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
principles and strategic pillars. To be successful in this role, we're seeking the following: Proven leadership of software engineering teams building distributed systems and microservices in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban). Deep Java experience (Spring), architectural patterns for scalable, observable, testable systems strong API design. ...

Software Engineer, Trading - Cumberland Systematic

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
develop the full stack needed to enable a global trading operation with high availability requirements. You will be expected to design and develop trading systems, market data connectivity, execution algorithms, research infrastructure, monitoring and observability tooling, and integrations with DRW’s core services. The team’s existing systems … with researchers, traders, and other software engineers Provide on-call support as needed Qualifications 5+ years of professional C++ experience Built complex, mission-critical systems in modern C++ that are maintainable and safely refactorable A deep understanding of concurrency concepts and their applications in C++ and Python A working ...

Senior C# Developer .NET 9/10, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS Outside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Smart Sourcer Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £700 to £800 per day
major greenfield B2B SaaS platform as a deeply senior, hands-on C# engineer, with heavy emphasis on deep .NET engineering , high-performance distributed systems , and real-world AWS serverless delivery . Youll also have the opportunity to develop hands-on skills with Claude Code , one of the most … industry. Role Overview: Youll operate as the technical spearhead for a greenfield product build, reporting to the Director of Engineering. Expect deep backend engineering, distributed system design, and high-quality serverless delivery, plus the chance to adopt modern AI-assisted development practices as part of your workflow. What Youll ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns … Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working ...

Software Engineer III - DevSecOps / Compliance Platform Engineering

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
security, or compliance platform engineering role operating in AWS Practical experience with threat modelling methodologies (e.g., STRIDE or equivalent) applied to cloud services or distributed systems Good working knowledge of AWS cloud security services including Identity and Access Management, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Key Management Service Experience ...

Senior Lead Software Engineer - CDAO Data Platforms

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
user interfaces all via public cloud. Job responsibilities Leads the engineering of cutting-edge solutions in the areas of metadata, meta-modelling and distributed systems. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors Develops secure and high-quality production code ...

Lead Full Stack Engineer

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
Build trust, share credit, and strengthen cross-functional execution Design and build fit for purpose architectures that balance simplicity, quality, scale, and security Simplify systems and workflows by removing friction, toil, and unnecessary handoffs Create durable reusable patterns, guardrails, and tooling that accelerate team delivery Quickly ramps … domains, technologies, and problem spaces, adapting as needs evolve Apply strong engineering fundamentals across software design, data, testing, and distributed systems Use AI-enabled tools deliberately across design, coding, testing, review, and documentation, while keeping strong human accountability for high risk decisions, verification, and final quality Build software ...

Software Engineer I - Backend

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
focus areas include: Compliance platform: Leverages state-of-the-art technology to execute comprehensive sanctions screening across multiple dimensions. Screening & Monitoring: Develop and implement systems to screen partners/customers data, transactions, and business relationships. Risk Identification & Mitigation: Identify potential risks, flag suspicious activities, and collaborate with compliance teams … also be responsible for making technical decisions within a team. Key Job Responsibilities and Duties: Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems Self-starters with a collaborative, “can-do” attitude Solving issues with the systems, prioritizing based on customer impact Advocating development best practices within ...