1 to 25 of 31 Distributed Systems Jobs in the North West

Senior Software Engineer - Scala

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
revenues exceeding$1 billion, currently expanding its Manchester engineering function. This is a rare opportunity to join a genuinely high-performing engineering team building distributed systems that process vast amounts of data and power critical products used globally. I'm particularly interested in speaking with engineers who have … fundamental to success. The Opportunity As a Senior Scala Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and developing highly scalable backend systems, influencing technical direction, and helping to shape the future of a rapidly growing engineering organisation. Working alongside some of the industry's strongest engineers ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75,000
environments. This is not a slow-moving enterprise IT environment. The engineering teams here are focused on modern product development, cloud-native architecture, scalable distributed systems, and building high-quality software that directly impacts real users and real-world transactions at scale. Youll join a collaborative engineering culture … teams to deliver genuinely modern SaaS products. The environment is heavily engineering-led, with a strong focus on: cloud-native development scalable APIs and distributed systems event-driven architecture CI/CD and automation engineering quality and clean architecture modern software delivery practices product-centric engineering Tech Stack ...

Senior Software Engineer (Node.js / TypeScript / AWS)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80,000
next-generation real-time platform from the ground up. Working closely with a small senior engineering team, you will design and deliver scalable backend systems, cloud infrastructure and distributed architectures capable of supporting high-concurrency real-time experiences. This is a hands-on role with significant influence over … technical direction, infrastructure design and platform foundations. Key Responsibilities Design and build scalable backend services and cloud infrastructure Architect event-driven and distributed systems on AWS Develop APIs, microservices and internal tooling Improve reliability, observability and developer workflows Conduct load testing and performance optimisation Contribute to frontend applications ...

Data Engineer - Defence

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£90,000
solving challenging problems through high-quality engineering, combining technical depth with hands-on delivery. This role offers the opportunity to work on data-intensive systems within demanding environments, building scalable pipelines and robust data platforms that support real-world outcomes. You'll have the opportunity to: Design and build … data pipelines and data-intensive applications Work across large-scale datasets in complex engineering environments Contribute to modern data platforms and distributed systems Collaborate with engineers and clients to deliver production-ready solutions Take ownership of delivery within high-impact programmes Work with modern tools and frameworks across ...

Senior Software Engineer Java

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
design, development, and delivery of secure full-stack applications using Java, React, and modern web technologies Building scalable back-end services, APIs, and distributed systems Developing responsive and user-focused front-end applications using React and associated frameworks Designing and maintaining cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure … frameworks such as React Previous experience operating at Senior, Lead, or Principal Engineer level Strong understanding of software architecture, API design, and scalable distributed systems Experience building cloud-native applications and working within AWS, Azure, or similar cloud environments Strong knowledge of DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines ...

Golang Software Engineers (Mid-Level to Senior)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
Explore and utilise AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality. Skills & Experience Commercial experience developing applications usingGolang. Experience building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. Exposure to AWS cloud services and modern cloud-native development. Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices. Experience working with ...

PHP Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Moorepay
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
experience using LLM APIs or AI-enhanced features and Agents. Experience with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or serverless platforms. Interest in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or DDD concepts. Familiarity with observability tooling and debugging complex systems. Skills & Experience Proven experience as a software engineer ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Moorepay
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
experience using LLM APIs or AI-enhanced features and Agents. Experience with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or serverless platforms. Interest in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or DDD concepts. Familiarity with observability tooling and debugging complex systems. ...

Principle Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DCS Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90000 - £100000/annum
technical problem-solving, system design, and raising engineering standards across teams. What You'll Be Doing Owning Architecture & Technical Direction Design and build scalable, distributed systems using .NET (C#) Define and evolve system architecture across AWS cloud environments Lead on complex technical challenges and system design decisions Ensure … influence the wider engineering team through knowledge sharing and technical mentorship Hands-On Delivery & Innovation Contribute directly to coding, design, and delivery of key systems Work across the full lifecycle - from design through to deployment and optimisation Drive improvement across CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native practices Collaborate ...

Cloud & Platform Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Moorepay
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
Platform Lead will identify priorities to remove friction from engineering teams, streamline processes, and enhance operational excellence. This role combines software engineering principles with systems administration to deliver robust, automated, cost-effective, and secure-by-design solutions. The Cloud & Platform Engineering Lead plays a critical role in ensuring that … platform is reliable, observable, secure, and able to scale with the organisation’s growth. As we adopt intelligent agents, autonomous workflows, and increasingly complex distributed systems, the Platform Lead ensures that resilience, performance, and operational excellence are built into everything we deliver. By partnering closely with Engineers, Architects ...

Senior Software Engineer - TypeScript / Next.Js / SQL

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£75,000
technology-led business is rebuilding and modernising the core system including billing, invoicing, reconciliation, integrations, operational workflows, reporting, customer tooling, and internal platforms. These systems sit at the heart of the organisation and directly influence revenue, operational efficiency, customer trust, and commercial decision-making. This role is suited … someone who enjoys solving complex operational and data problems, and who takes ownership of outcomes rather than simply delivering tickets. Strong engineering judgement, systems thinking, and an appreciation for correctness are essential in an environment where mistakes can have meaningful downstream impact. AI-assisted development is already central ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DCS Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65000 - £75000/annum
with a strong engineering culture and modern tech stack. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain applications using .NET technologies (C#) Build and deploy scalable systems within AWS cloud environments Contribute to architecture and technical decision-making Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver features Champion best practice …/CD pipelines and DevOps processes Required Experience Strong commercial experience with .NET/C# Hands-on experience with AWS (essential) Experience building scalable, distributed systems Strong understanding of APIs and microservices architecture Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps ways of working Ability to work autonomously ...

AWS API Engineer / Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Capgemini
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
will design and deliver secure, scalable, well-integrated APIs and microservices across multiple client applications and services, supporting system and data integration across distributed environments. Security Clearance: To be successfully appointed to this role, must be eligible to obtain Security Check (SC)clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful … roadmaps. Define and apply RESTful API design patterns and integration standards; support API lifecycle management, documentation and versioning. Support system and data integration across distributed services, including event-driven patterns where appropriate. Assess and address technical debt, recommending pragmatic modernisation approaches. Support deployment planning, cutover activities and post ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Uniting Ambition
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£85000 - £95000/annum
influencing technical teams Exposure to AI tools and technologies such as Claude and Gemini Strong stakeholder management and communication skills Knowledge of microservices, distributed systems and modern architectures Experience with CI/CD and modern engineering practices If you'd like to be part of a brand ...

Founding Engineer, Payments Platform, Mobility Startup

Hiring Organisation
Richard Wheeler Associates
Location
North West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
build and scale the platform. A technically hands-on yet entrepreneurial role, youll help design the architecture, build integrations with telematics providers and payment systems, create their geospatial decision engine, and lay the foundation for a world-class engineering organization. This is a role for someone who enjoys building … major technical decisions. What Youll Work On: Design and build the core platform Integrate with vehicle telematics providers and OEM APIs Build geospatial systems that determine when vehicles enter and exit chargeable zones Develop payment orchestration and billing infrastructure Build fleet management and operational tooling Create scalable backend services ...

Founding Engineer - Fintech infrastructure, geospatial

Hiring Organisation
Richard Wheeler Associates
Location
North West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
build and scale the platform. A technically hands-on yet entrepreneurial role, youll help design the architecture, build integrations with telematics providers and payment systems, create their geospatial decision engine, and lay the foundation for a world-class engineering organization. This is a role for someone who enjoys building … major technical decisions. What Youll Work On: Design and build the core platform Integrate with vehicle telematics providers and OEM APIs Build geospatial systems that determine when vehicles enter and exit chargeable zones Develop payment orchestration and billing infrastructure Build fleet management and operational tooling Create scalable backend services ...

Engineering Director

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
challenges through scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions. You’ll play a key role in shaping engineering standards, leading talented teams, and delivering critical systems end‐to‐end. This is a hands‐on, individual contributor role with major influence‐owning architecture, driving technical direction, and shaping a next‐generation … Corporate Actions engine from the ground up. What you’ll do Own architecture and design for a large‐scale, distributed platform Lead hands‐on engineering of a greenfield system end‐to‐end Set engineering standards and influence technical direction Drive best practice across microservices, APIs, data, and DevOps Partner ...

Senior Applied AI Engineer (.NET)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Warrington, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£75,000
production-grade AI-powered features within a modern .NET product environment. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on applying AI in real systems not training models. Youll work with commercial AI platforms such as Anthropic Claude, AWS Bedrock, and OpenAI to build reliable, scalable, and observable features … growing team. What Youll Do Design and build AI-powered product features within a C#/.NET ecosystem Integrate commercial AI APIs into production systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost control Establish and promote best practices for applied AI engineering across the codebase Lead by example ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £95,000 per annum
annum We're hiring multiple Software Engineers from junior to senior level to join a growing technology team delivering scalable, high-performance systems within a global financial services environment. Key Skills & Responsibilities: Designing and developing high-quality, scalable software solutions. Working across the full SDLC in a modern engineering … practices. Contributing to architecture, innovation, and continuous improvement. Strong programming experience in Python (essential) Exposure to Golang or Java (nice to have) Experience with distributed systems/microservices architecture. Knowledge of APIs, system design, and cloud environments. Strong focus on clean code, testing, and engineering best practices. This ...

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Hiring Organisation
True North Group
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £100,000 per annum
Machine Learning Engineer you will: Design and implement data ingestion, model training, validation, deployment and monitoring pipelines across the organization Optimize ML infrastructure and systems for maintainability, scalability, robustness, efficiency, and operating costs Collaborate with product stakeholders, data scientists and engineering teams to design and implement AI/… latency optimization, cloud infrastructure optimization, knowledge graphs, and MLOps - Deep understanding of CS fundamentals, computational complexity and algorithm design - Experience with building large-scale distributed systems in an agile environment and the ability to build quick prototypes - Excellent knowledge of Python and core data science libraries including Pandas ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Booking.com
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
principles and decision records across the team Role Qualifications and Requirements 10+ years of relevant experience in software development, building and scaling high-traffic, distributed systems E-commerce, marketplace, messaging or other suitable platform experience strongly preferred 2+ years of experience managing teams and performance Expertise in Java … based microservices is preferred; experience with Golang, Scala, or Python is a plus Proven experience modernizing legacy systems and leading major replatforming or migration efforts Demonstrated ownership of critical production systems, including technical debt reduction and documentation Prior experience running large-scale experiments (A/B testing) that ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer - Start-up

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
North West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
would also be great to have experience with Golang but you can pick it up on the job You have a strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures You enjoy working on Greenfield projects in fast paced environments, ideally you will have start-up or scale ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Searchability (UK) Ltd
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£90,000
Next.js Proven track record designing and delivering scalable software architectures Cloud experience across Azure, AWS or GCP Strong understanding of API design, integrations and distributed systems Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers Passion for modern engineering practices and AI-assisted development Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Searchability
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £90,000 per annum
Next.js Proven track record designing and delivering scalable software architectures Cloud experience across Azure, AWS or GCP Strong understanding of API design, integrations and distributed systems Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers Passion for modern engineering practices and AI-assisted development Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills ...

Senior Staff Engineer (£140k + 20% Bonus)

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
define architecture, drive engineering excellence and lead delivery, so should have a track record of leading teams to design, build, and deliver large-scale distributed systems and event-driven microservices in high-volume, consumer-facing environments. Tech: Scala, Java, TypeScript, React MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake AWS, GitHub, Copilot, Datadog ...