1 to 25 of 70 Distributed Systems Jobs in Central London

Staff Platform Engineer - AI Native SaaS Platform

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Platform | 10x ARR Since Last Year Remote-first UK with hybrid London office option Up to £170,000 + equity Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, distributed systems Staff Platform Engineer - We're working with a rapidly scaling AI-native SaaS company who raised an impressive Series B round … match the ambition of their product and customers. The product is real-time, data-rich and AI-native, creating complex engineering challenges across distributed systems, reliability, infrastructure, tooling and developer experience. As they continue to scale their Engineering team, they are now looking for a Staff Platform Engineer ...

Software Engineer, Platform Systems

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
About the Team The Platform Systems team at OpenAI operates at the intersection of cutting‐edge AI and large‐scale distributed systems. We build the engineering and research infrastructure required to train OpenAI’s flagship models on some of the world’s largest, custom‐built supercomputers. Our team … core model training software and works deep in the stack – spanning collective communication, compute efficiency, parallelism strategies, fault tolerance, failure detection, and observability. The systems we build are foundational to OpenAI’s research velocity, enabling reliable, efficient training at frontier scale. We collaborate closely with researchers across the organization ...

Senior Platform Engineer - AI Native SaaS Platform

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
SaaS Platform | 10x ARR Since Last Year Remote-first UK with hybrid London office option Up to £125,000 + equity Golang | GCP | Kubernetes | Distributed Systems Senior Platform Engineer - We're working with a rapidly scaling AI-native SaaS company who raised an impressive Series B round … match the ambition of their product and customers. The product is real-time, data-rich and AI-native, creating complex engineering challenges across distributed systems, reliability, infrastructure, tooling and developer experience. As they continue to scale their Engineering team, they are now looking for a Senior Platform Engineer ...

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 - 5 Days On-Site | Python | Java | AI | Low Latency | Distributed Systems Build software where performance, mathematics and real-time decision-making genuinely matter. We're partnering with a highly technical sports betting business … continuing to invest in its engineering function. They're looking for Senior Software Engineers to work on complex backend systems operating across real-time data, quantitative problems and high-performance distributed architecture. This is an opportunity for engineers who enjoy difficult technical problems rather than simply delivering features ...

Senior Platform SRE

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
team, owning pieces of the reliability platform that hundreds of engineers depend on. You will work at the intersection of software engineering, observability, and systems reliability, turning reliability from a reactive concern into a proactive engineering discipline. You will partner with Platform Engineering, product teams, and Reliability Champions … mitigate, understand, and prevent a repeat. What you’ll do Build and own the reliability platform Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability using OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing. Maintain SLO, error budgets and burn‐rate tracking Establish and maintain 24/7 operational readiness including automated deployments, blue/green releases ...

Senior Data Plaform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Aker Systems Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive … performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations. In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a One to Watch on the Sunday ...

Fractional Lead Graph Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Elliot Marsh
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Part Time
detection of risk and anomalies. The business is now building the technical foundations of the platform and is looking for an experienced graph and distributed systems specialist who can provide senior-level expertise on a fractional basis. Fractional Lead Graph Engineer The Role: The Fractional Lead Graph Engineer … infrastructure specialists, transferring knowledge into the wider engineering team Fractional Lead Graph Engineer You: - Significant commercial experience designing and scaling enterprise graph databases, distributed data systems or high-volume event-driven backends - Strong production experience with Neo4j and graph query languages such as Cypher or Gremlin - Deep understanding ...

Principal Engineer - Electronic Pricing - Financial Services - TWE4745

Hiring Organisation
Twenty Recruitment Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
financial markets organisation investing in the development and modernisation of its core technology platforms. The engineering team builds and supports high-throughput, business-critical systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, automation and engineering quality. Role As a Principal Engineer, you will remain hands-on while helping shape … architecture and technical direction of highly available, distributed software platforms. Design and develop backend applications and services within a Java environment. Build and enhance distributed systems operating at high throughput and availability. Design event-driven architectures and integrations using Kafka. Shape technical approaches and contribute to architecture ...

Lead Software Engineering — Trading Tech

Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
engineering team where your code and ideas directly improve platform resilience, scalability, and developer experience. This role offers meaningful ownership, opportunities to grow your distributed systems expertise, and the chance to contribute to technical direction through hands-on delivery. You’ll work in a fast-paced environment with … related field, or equivalent practical experience. Hands-on proficiency in Java and a track record of delivering production-quality code. Experience building distributed systems that process high volumes of data with real-time delivery needs. Practical experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines ...

Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
MJA (London) Ltd
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
Looking for a detailed orientated engineer to join an existing engineering team, understand the architecture quickly, contribute production-quality code, troubleshoot distributed systems, and independently drive assigned deliverables through to deployment. You should have the following experience: MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js, C#/.NET Core 10+ … Server 19+. Programming: JavaScript and TypeScript Architecture: Microservices and distributed applications Event-Driven Architecture: Apache Kafka Kafka: Producers, consumers, topics, partitions and consumer groups Cloud: AWS application deployment and support DevOps: CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation Containers: Docker APIs: RESTful API design and development using C# with ...

Sr Backend Engineer

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
platforms in a dynamic financial services environment. Your key responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain mission-critical banking services and applications Lead architectural decisions for distributed systems and microservices Build and support cloud-native applications in multi-cloud environments Develop robust RESTful APIs and implement asynchronous processing solutions Ensure … bring to the role: Essential Requirements: Extensive hands-on backend engineering experience with expert proficiency in Java development and JVM technologies Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and relational database data architecture patterns Proven experience building and supporting cloud-native applications in production Demonstrated experience developing RESTful ...

Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack

Hiring Organisation
FBI &TMT
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack to join its core engineering team on a permanent basis. The role will involve designing, building and scaling systems that process video and sensor data, while delivering AI-powered features for real-world security and operations. Key Responsibilities: Build and maintain backend services … TypeScript and React, including modern tools such as React Query and Tailwind Contribute to infrastructure, system architecture and cloud-native engineering decisions Work on distributed systems, real-time processing, high availability and system performance Collaborate effectively with AI, product and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable features Support ...

AM Mosaic Technology - Software Engineer - Associate - London

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
connecting people and capital with ideas andsolvethe most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Our engineering teams build scalable software and systems,architectlow latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Engineering, which iscomprisedof … centric products Contribute to the vision, understand our product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within our global team. Design flows and systems using cloud and on-prem technologies to ensure performance, longevity, and scalability of infrastructure. Contribute to SDLC documentation and guidance including templates, patterns ...

Data Engineer (Newcastle upon Tyne)

Hiring Organisation
Catalyst
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
continued excellent performance. About the Role As a Data Engineer you will play a key role in developing, building and maintaining scalable data intensive systems, pipelines and platforms that power analytics, operational systems, and AI-driven products. This role combines full-stack or backend software engineering with modern … Design and develop sophisticated data pipelines to import data from internal and external sources and seamlessly integrate into data platforms. Maintenance & Data Reliability : Ensure systems are well-maintained, enabling uninterrupted access to crucial data. Continuously verify data quality and integrity to support decision making. Continuous Improvement & Collaboration : Collaborate with ...

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 ...

Agentic AI & Commerce Architect

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
/song As an Agentic AI & Commerce Architect, you will lead the end-to-end technical design and delivery of production-grade agentic commerce systems for global enterprise clients. You are responsible for defining the overall system architecture, selecting and governing AI/ML and platform technologies, and ensuring … intelligence: embeddings pipelines, vector retrieval, and semantic search — structured around commerce-specific intent, product relationships, and category hierarchies Architect the integration layer connecting agentic systems to enterprise commerce stacks (OMS, PIM, DAM, CRM, payments, pricing, fulfilment) via API gateways, event buses, and emerging agentic protocols ...

Senior Cloud Security Engineer (GCP) - Engine by Starling

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure … such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes ...

Senior Software Developer

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
help drive systemic improvements to the reliability of our systems. Ideally you have many years of experience building and supporting large-scale software systems and you feel comfortable talking to infrastructure engineers about networking issues or kernel tuning as well as reporting .NET garbage collector bugs to Microsoft … highly valued Excellent communication skills Strong knowledge of C#, Rust or any popular programming language Can write efficient, concurrent code Knowledge of how distributed systems work Knowledge of version control systems The Team Personal development driven by employees Interesting and complex problems to solve Continuously improve ...

Senior Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Tech 4
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
building with AI tools long enough to know how to use them effectively. You'll likely bring: Deep experience building scalable, secure, cloud-based systems, giving you the foundation to confidently guide and validate agentic workflow outputs. Proven ability to work across both legacy and greenfield codebases, using modern … tooling to improve reliability and evolve architecture pragmatically. Strong system design fundamentals across scalability, performance, and distributed systems, including API design (REST, GraphQL). Hands-on experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, or similar) and a data-informed approach to system health and reliability. Solid SQL and data ...

Engineering & Delivery Lead - Risk & Compliance

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Westminster, Greater London, UK
security and control frameworks Demonstrate deep hands-on engineering capability in Java or Python including building high-performance services and working with concurrency and distributed patterns Apply substantial experience with event-driven and distributed systems including low-latency architectures and synchronous and asynchronous execution models Use strong ...

Google Cloud Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Damia Group Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£375 - £450 per day
teams. Develop secure, high-quality production code and actively review, debug and improve code produced by other engineers. Lead architectural design for cloud-native systems and services, producing comprehensive RFCs, ADRs, architecture diagrams and other technical design documentation. Drive operational excellence by identifying patterns in system failures, operational metrics … knowledge of agile engineering methodologies, CI/CD, application resilience, security and capacity planning. Demonstrable expertise in a technical discipline such as cloud architecture, distributed systems, security, DevOps or platform engineering. Experience working within the financial services sector , including understanding of IT environments, regulatory requirements and operational constraints. ...

Software Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Halian Technology Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
build high-performing engineering teams. Experience working within cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure or GCP). Understanding of software architecture, system design, and scalable distributed systems. Nice to Have Knowledge of payment processing, payment gateways, acquiring, issuing, card schemes, open banking, or embedded finance. Experience working with highly available ...

Data and AI - AI Engineer

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
combines: Deep technical and coding capability , with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to non-technical audiences Strong understanding of AI/GenAI systems and architecture Experience building agentic, production‐grade AI solutions The ability to operateacross the full lifecycle :fromstrategytodesigntobuildtodeployandscale As a senior member … accounts. Thought Leadership & Proposition Ownership : Play a key role in shaping Wavestone’s AI and GenAI propositions , bringing forward innovative approaches to agentic systems, retrieval architectures, evaluation frameworks, and enterprise AI engineering. You will contribute to thought leadership through articles, insights, and event participation, and help develop reusable accelerators ...

Senior Engineer - LMEsmart

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
cloud vendor. Knowledge of off-heap data structures, including memory-mapped file-based data structures. Knowledge and experience of JVM based optimisation. Experience with distributed systems, data streaming (e.g., Kafka) and big-data processing paradigms. Working in any of: Scrum, Agile, XP, Kanban or Lean Software Development environment. … exposure to highly-available services. Security aspects of software development Bonus for knowledge of: UI development using React.js. Scripting languages, preferably Python. NoSQL or distributed databases (e.g., Redis, Couchbase) Automation/configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). Public cloud (e.g. ...

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 ...