8 of 8 Distributed Systems Jobs in East London

Platform Storage Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter
Location
East London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£160,000 - £190,000 per annum
quantitative investment firm as it continues a major expansion of its infrastructure and research platform. With substantial investment being made into compute, storage and distributed systems engineering, this is an opportunity to join a team building the next generation of high-performance data infrastructure that underpins global research … This role sits within the Platform Storage team, responsible for architecting and evolving the storage ecosystem powering large-scale quant workloads. The environment combines systems engineering, distributed backend development and high-performance infrastructure, with engineers working across on-prem and cloud platforms to solve complex data challenges ...

Principal Rust Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter
Location
East London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£160,000 - £180,000 per annum
firm in hiring a Rust Developer to join a highly influential Product team. This group sits at the core of the business, building the distributed platforms, internal services, and compute frameworks that underpin trading, quant research, and large-scale data processing across the organisation. This is a deeply technical … engineering role focused on high-performance systems, scalability, and platform reliability. You’ll work on foundational technology used by multiple engineering and investment teams, helping to shape the infrastructure powering a world-class trading environment. What you’ll do: • Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed systems ...

Qantative Developer (OTC Pricing)

Hiring Organisation
Forward Role
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Assets | Low-Latency Trading A leading institutional digital asset market maker is hiring an Exchange Trading Quant Developer to build and optimise the core systems behind its global trading infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on real-time trading systems, exchange connectivity, and low-latency … performance. You'll work closely with traders and quant teams to improve execution quality, build scalable infrastructure, and ensure trading systems perform under serious market pressure, the kind where milliseconds quietly decide everything. If you enjoy building high-performance systems and solving complex distributed engineering problems ...

Backend Software Engineer (Remote, UK)

Hiring Organisation
esenda
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
care about maintainability, security, reliability, and clear documentation. Bonus points for Payments/fintech knowledge (reconciliation, idempotency, auditability, ledger concepts). Experience with distributed systems patterns (queues, background jobs, retries, rate limiting). Security experience (threat modelling, OWASP-style concerns, secure API design). Familiarity with Terraform. ...

Staff Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stepstone UK
Location
South East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
create alignment across teams, explain complex concepts clearly, and help others make confident, pragmatic decisions. Your responsibilities Design, architect and deliver agentic, LLM-powered systems in AWS, ensuring production readiness, scalability, reliability and security. Provide technical leadership to evolve AI solutions from experimentation into robust, observable and maintainable products. … Python and at least one of Java, TypeScript or .NET, and a proven track record delivering production-grade systems. Experience designing, building and operating distributed systems on AWS (or similar cloud platforms), including secure development, data protection, compliance and enterprise architecture principles. Hands-on experience integrating LLMs into ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Franklin Bates Limited
Location
South East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
delivery, and technical strategy in a fast-moving environment. Youll play a key role in defining engineering standards, influencing product direction, and building scalable systems capable of supporting rapid growth within a modern payments ecosystem. The Opportunity Joining at an exciting stage of growth, youll work closely with founders … architecture Experience working with PostgreSQL and scalable data design Proven experience operating at Technical Architect, Principal Engineer, or Staff Engineer level Experience building scalable distributed systems and APIs Strong understanding of modern software engineering best practices Desirable Experience Payments, fintech, or regulated environment experience Exposure to AI-assisted ...

Palantir Engineer (Senior/Principal)

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
South East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
help shape and scale their platform from the ground up. Exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of data engineering, AI, and operational systems, designing solutions that directly drive business decisions and real-world outcomes. You will play a key role in delivering enterprise platforms using Palantir Foundry … production environments Strong engineering background with expertise in at least one of: Python, SQL, PySpark, or TypeScript Strong understanding of modern data architectures & distributed systems Ability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environments Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills Experience building: Data pipelines & transforms Ontologies and data models ...

Scala Developer (Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Stealth iT Consulting
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
join their engineering team and contribute to the design and development of scalable, high‐performance applications . This role involves working on modern distributed systems, building APIs, and collaborating with cross‐functional teams to deliver enterprise‐grade solutions. Key responsibilities: Design, develop and maintain backend services and APIs ...