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Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems Engineer)

Hiring Organisation
TechChain Talent
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Backend Engineer: Distributed Systems Specialist Location: New York or London (Hybrid) Salary: $300,000 – $350,000 USD About Us We’re a stealth-mode infrastructure venture building next-gen primitives for decentralized execution. Our mission: rethink how distributed systems scale, sync, and self-heal — with … focus on performance, modularity, and cryptographic integrity. Our team includes protocol veterans, systems engineers, and cryptography researchers pushing the limits of what’s possible in Web3 infra. The Role We’re hiring a Backend Engineer with deep distributed systems expertise to help architect and optimize our core ...

Senior Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter LTD
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
internal compute frameworks that underpin their trading and research platforms. This is a high-impact role, working at the intersection of software engineering and distributed systems, with the opportunity to build scalable tools and frameworks used across the business. What youll do: Design, develop, and maintain performant, reliable … tools and platforms that streamline workflows across investment and technology teams Contribute to code reviews and best practices, improving overall development quality Work across distributed systems, containers, and automation pipelines to deliver scalable solutions What were looking for: 6+ years professional software development experience Strong proficiency in high ...

AI Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
build of this platform, shape its architecture, and partner with deep technical SMEs across the business to ensure our AI systems operate with the highest levels of performance, security, and responsible oversight The client is investing in the next generation of AI capabilities, with safety, resilience, and trust … core. We're creating a cutting-edge AI Control Tower -a centralised platform and dashboard that monitors, governs, and optimises AI systems across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering. This role ...

Technical Solutions Engineer - Deep-Tech AI Start-up

Hiring Organisation
Urban Digital Recruitment Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
retail estates. They’re hiring a Technical Solutions Engineer, not a TAM, not a PM, not an implementation role. Think: deep troubleshooting, edge deployments, distributed systems, containers, logs, Linux, cloud , and full technical ownership of AI models running across thousands of PoS devices . If you love pulling … systems apart, debugging across multiple layers, and being the technical face of a cutting-edge AI product, this is for you. What You’ll Be Doing Own the technical success of enterprise deployments across thousands of PoS + edge devices Troubleshoot end-to-end: AI model behaviour, device integrations ...

Senior Software Engineer - Quant Firm

Hiring Organisation
Dex
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
technical challenge. What You’ll Work On Architect Low-Latency Infrastructure: Design and implement the critical path for trading execution, building order management systems and market connectivity layers where performance is measured in microseconds. Scale Data Pipelines: Engineer elegant, distributed systems capable of ingesting and processing petabytes … performance across networking, I/O, and compute layers, squeezing maximum efficiency out of hardware. Build World-Class Observability: Create robust monitoring and telemetry systems to provide real-time insights into pipeline health, trading activity, and model behavior. Work with the Best: Work side-by-side with world-class ...

Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++ / Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000.

Hiring Organisation
IT Graduate Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£55,000 - £77,000 per annum, OTE
Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++/Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000 | Hybrid (London/Remote) Build technology that powers real trading. Join a high-performance engineering team developing low-latency, resilient backend systems used in live trading environments. You’ll work on complex technical challenges from … Quant-Engineering tracks within 12–24 months. What You’ll Do Design, build, and optimise backend components of real-time trading and risk systems Develop clean, efficient, high-performance code in C++ and Java Work closely with traders, quants, and senior engineers to deliver new features Solve complex problems ...

AI Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
capabilities that underpin AI observability and governance across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering . You will develop core components of the platform, contribute to its evolution, and ensure our AI systems … capture metrics such as: Model performance, drift, and degradation Operational and service health Security posture and policy adherence Guardrail compliance for ML and GenAI systems Governance and risk indicators Implement observability tooling using logging, metrics, tracing, and event-driven patterns. Apply secure-by-design principles, strong IAM practices ...

Satellite Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
City of London, London, 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 Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
GTreasury
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer Lead complex engineering work | Azure | .NET | Distributed Systems At GTreasury, we build software that sits at the heart of the CFO’s office. Our SaaS platform handles complex financial workflows at global scale - and we’re investing heavily in the next phase of growth. … build it, you run it) Influence architecture, code quality, and engineering standards Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decision-making Support production systems in a mature DevOps environment 👀 What You Bring 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience Strong expertise in .NET and SQL-based systems Experience building ...

Java Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Kneu Health
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£60,000
scaling across the UK and US with proven outcomes and growing demand. The Role As a Backend Engineer , youll build the secure, scalable systems that power Kneus products. Youll work on services and infrastructure that clinicians rely on for decision-making, enable patients to access impactful tools … maintain backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable Design and develop REST APIs for mobile and/or web applications Contribute to distributed systems and microservice architectures Support database design (SQL) and backend architecture decisions Improve release processes and deployment workflows Collaborate closely with engineering and data ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£53.85 - £61.68 per hour
Hybrid) Contract Duration: 6 months Join a specialized Applied AI team driving innovation in business operations. The group accelerates AI transformation by developing agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure to automate workflows and drive efficiency. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer (L5) to deliver production-grade code while … architecting autonomous AI workflows. This role combines technical expertise, product thinking, and scaling AI solutions across complex systems, working in a small agile team within a larger engineering organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered systems that enhance global sales workflows. Build scalable backend services ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Native
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
approach to accurate database reasoning. About the role This is a founding Platform Engineer role, with the opportunity to shape Native’s infrastructure and systems architecture from day one. You will build the platform that turns cutting-edge research into reliable, production-grade systems. Design, build, and operate … core platform that powers research and production workloads Productionise research systems into robust, scalable services Build internal platforms and tooling for researchers and engineers Own compute, storage, networking, and deployment infrastructure Design and operate CI/CD, observability, and reliability systems Think deeply about performance, isolation, fault tolerance ...

Junior C++ Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
This role sits within a high-performing engineering group responsible for building and supporting the core systems that underpin real-time trading activity. The successful candidate will work across the full software development lifecycle, contributing to the design, build, deployment, and optimisation of highly scalable, performance-critical applications. … Responsibilities Build, test, and enhance high-performance trading systems using C++ and Python Translate quantitative models and trading logic into robust production-ready software Develop internal tools and interfaces used directly by front-office trading teams Improve market data ingestion, exchange connectivity, and real-time data flows Contribute ...

Rust/C++ Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Rust, C++, Data Structures, Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Multithreading McGregor Boyall are partnered with a leading quant investment manager hiring in London. The fund implements a tech-centric approach to trading: computer science and quant finance have always been core to the fund's identity as they continue … execute the market across all liquid assets. The Data Infrastructure team are seeking a software developer with good knowledge of multithreaded, distributed systems. The fund is highly data-driven and this role will offer significant exposure to critical systems within the company. Lots of variation and a chance ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£60 - £80 per hour
Team: RegTech (Fintech Business Unit) The Stack Primary: Java (Expert level) & Microservices. Data: Cassandra, Hadoop, MySQL. Cloud: AWS (Kinesis, Step Functions, EC2). Focus: Distributed systems, batch processing, and data integrity. The Mission Build and scale automated KYC/KYP (Know Your Customer/Partner) and regulatory compliance … identity verification, risk assessment, and onboarding for a global partner base. Requirements Experience: 3+ years in server-side software development. Architecture: Building highly scalable distributed systems and data pipelines. Expertise: Unit/Integration testing, architecture reviews, and defining SLOs. Mindset: 'Can-do' attitude; able to bridge technical problems ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
learning to price 50,000+ instruments across equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, and crypto. You’ll take ownership of building and owning the core systems that power trading and research across the firm — from corporate actions and fundamentals to index data. This is not about hoarding alternative data … reliable, business-critical datasets that the entire firm depends on. What you’ll do Build and optimise automated data ingestion pipelines Own and improve distributed systems used firm-wide Apply statistical and algorithmic techniques to improve data quality Work closely with internal users to ship impactful improvements Operate ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £150,000 per annum
complex, data-driven platforms. This role requires someone who can lead multi-disciplinary teams, improve engineering execution, and drive technical excellence across high-scale distributed systems and machine-learning environments. Required Experience Leadership of engineering organisations of 20 or more across multiple disciplines, including backend, web, data … DevOps. Proven track record designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems and high-volume data pipelines. Strong background in cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks such as Spark or Databricks. Experience working closely with Data Science teams, including delivering production-grade ML models and pipelines. Solid understanding ...

C++ Developer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Quant Finance McGregor Boyall have partnered with a tech-first quant investment manager in London: Someone with experience in Windows-centric, multithreaded C++ and distributed systems could directly shape the performance and reliability of the firm's core trading platforms and UI surfaces - the very systems that … latency/high throughput environment - Expert with Windows-based development with proven experience with STL, MFC, Wx Widgets or Win32 - Advanced knowledge of distributed systems - Linux Red Hat essential Nice to have: - Extensive front office experience in trading - Knowledge of Equities, Futures or Options - Experience working on market ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£125,000 - £150,000 per annum
will lead multiple engineering teams across data, ML, web, QA and DevOps disciplines to deliver a platform that processes massive datasets, powers complex distributed systems and provides high-value insights to enterprise clients. You will shape engineering strategy, strengthen execution and drive the organisation's evolution … engineering roadmap across all product and platform areas Lead architectural direction for data processing, machine learning pipelines and web application development Ensure systems are scalable, reliable and capable of handling large-scale data and evolving ML workloads Introduce and measure engineering KPIs Drive improvements in delivery processes, release quality ...

Founding Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Explore Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
join the team in central London. This is a unique opportunity to help build a transformative new platform at the intersection of software systems, automation, and intelligent infrastructure. Founded by leading academics and proven entrepreneurs , the business is backed by top-tier investors and is solving complex technical problems … that demand creativity, rigour, and ambition. The Role Build and own core systems and architecture from the ground up Work closely with the founding team on product direction and technical strategy Make key decisions across the full stack — from infrastructure to user-facing elements Contribute to the early engineering ...

Agentic Developer - Building guardrails for autonomous AI

Hiring Organisation
governr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
building the infrastructure that makes autonomous AI safe for enterprise deployment. Not governance theatre. Not compliance checkboxes. Actual technical systems that can monitor, quantify, and govern AI agents operating with autonomy in production environments. If you've been following the trajectory from static models to agentic systems … competitive window before large incumbents build comparable capabilities to stay relevant. The Role As an Agentic Developer at governr, you'll build the core systems that monitor, analyse, and govern autonomous AI agents in production. This isn't traditional software engineering with well-worn patterns. You're designing architectures ...

OpenShift SRE SME

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
focus on automation. Work and collaborate across teams, such as Applications, Hardware, and Network. Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies. Develop systems, primarily in Shell scripting, YAML, Ruby, Python and Go language, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation. Establish and enforce SRE best practices through … call rotation. Your Profile Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience Hands-on experience with OpenShift virtualization and Kubernetes administration. Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains. Experience managing a production service with RedHat, Windows and ESXi. Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking. ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CipherTek Recruitment
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
while other days will be remote. Desired technical Skills: Java (Core & Advanced): Strong proficiency in Java, including multi-threading, collections, and concurrency. FIC Trading Systems: Experience developing, maintaining, or supporting electronic trading platforms. Messaging Protocols: Familiarity with FIX protocol, MQ, JMS, or similar messaging solutions. API Development: Experience with … Spring MVC, and related technologies. Database Technologies: Strong SQL skills; experience with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL solutions. Distributed Systems: Understanding of distributed computing concepts and technologies (e.g., microservices, caching, clustering). Testing Frameworks: Experience with JUnit, Mockito, or similar testing ...

Senior Data Engineer, SQL, RDBMS, Python, Celery, RabbitMQ, Pt Remote

Hiring Organisation
Carrington Recruitment Solutions Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£95,000
infrastructure and framework choices for data pipelining and data management Manage complex initiatives by setting project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables Collaborate effectively with distributed team members across multiple time zones, including offshore development teams Skills required: Proven track record building scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) in production Expert … PySpark, Celery and RabbitMQ skills; deep experience with AWS data stack (Glue, OpenSearch, RDS) Expert skills within SQL with experience in both transactional RDBMS systems and distributed systems Hands-on with Lakehouse technologies (Apache Iceberg, S3 Tables, StarRocks) Strong grasp of data governance, schema design, and quality ...

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (LLM)

Hiring Organisation
AdvisoryAI
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Real-time hallucination detection, PII scanning, cost tracking, latency monitoring Location: UK More than just code, you'll be: A builder : Design production LLM systems handling 10K+ daily requests, build meta-prompt engines for regulatory compliance, and architect RAG systems with <100ms query times A collaborator : Work alongside … addition to the following technical skills, we are looking for PROBLEM SOLVERS with an entrepreneurial mindset. Strong Python development with production ML/LLM systems Experience deploying and monitoring LLMs at scale Deep understanding of prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and LLM evaluation Comfortable with AWS/GCP services (Lambda ...