26 to 50 of 136 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Visa
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
About the RoleAt Visa, our Middleware Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) team is evolving into a modern software engineering organization focused on building intelligent, scalable systems that keep critical platforms running globally. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll design and build software that improves reliability, automation … observability, and resilience across Visa's middleware ecosystem. If you enjoy writing production-grade code, solving complex distributed systems problems, and seeing your work operate at real-world scale, this role is for you. Why This Role Stands OutGlobal impact from day one – your work supports critical payment ...

Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Platform

Hiring Organisation
IBM
Location
winchester, south east england, united kingdom
responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud * If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have … computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience * Relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience * Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development * Experience building and operating large-scale systems * Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc) * A self ...

Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Cloud Platform

Hiring Organisation
IBM
Location
london, south east england, united kingdom
responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the Confluent cloud * If you love the hum of big data systems covering 10,000's of instances, thinking about how to make them run as smoothly and securely as possible, and want to have … computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience * Relevant cloud infrastructure/cloud networking experience * Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development * Experience building and operating large-scale systems * Solid understanding of basic systems operations (disk, network, operating systems, etc) * A self ...

Associate Backend Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
The Business Connection Group
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£55,000 - £65,000 per annum
core engineering team — an exceptional opportunity to build your career alongside seasoned experts from top-tier technology firms, working on high-impact, cutting-edge systems from day one. The Role As Associate Backend Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design, build, testing and maintenance of distributed backend … Document designs, workflows and processes; track progress against project milestones and support delivery timelines Apply and grow your knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containerisation and distributed data systems in daily work What You’ll Bring Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical discipline ...

Software Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
modern cloud-native environment. Youll play a key role in shaping architecture, driving best practices, and supporting the delivery of scalable, secure backend systems used by customers at scale. The Role As Engineering Manager, youll lead a team of Software Engineers working across cloud-native microservices and distributed … modern tools, including AI-assisted development. About You Youll be an experienced engineering leader with a strong technical background in backend or distributed systems development, ideally using Golang. Youll bring: Strong commercial experience with Golang or similar backend technologies. Previous experience in a leadership, team lead or engineering ...

Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform - Confluent

Hiring Organisation
IBM
Location
winchester, south east england, united kingdom
your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact. Required Skills * Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development * Good understanding of the Kubernetes ecosystem * Experience building and operating large-scale systems * Understanding of core systems operations, including … storage, networking, and operating systems * Self-starter with the ability to work effectively in a team environment * Proficiency in Go, Python, C++, or other statically typed programming languages * Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP Preferred Skills * Experience with Golang and Kubernetes CNI technologies * Hands ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
debugs code written by others Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review … standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team. Proven expertise in designing, deploying, and managing containerized distributed applications, with a strong understanding of orchestration and scaling strategies Hands-on experience with AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), including provisioning and operating ...

Senior Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Archangel Lightworks Ltd
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
over £10 million, we are supported by the UK Space Agency, DSIT and the UK Ministry of Defence. About the job As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead the specification, design, integration and testing of optical ground stations and other products. Working with engineering teams, partners and customers … deployment, operations and maintenance. You may also lead a small team, plan sprints and coordinate delivery. Contract and permanent applicants are welcome. Responsibilities Own systems/subsystems, lead specification and verification, and act as technical contact for external partners. Identify and resolve technical risks and issues; develop coherent requirements ...

Lead/Principle Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
programmes. Working within Agile, cloud-native environments, you'll leverage cutting-edge commercial and open-source technologies to build scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems across both public and private cloud infrastructure. You'll play a key role in the full software development lifecycle, from solution design through … such as Kafka . Strong experience integrating with backend services including PostgreSQL , Redis , and S3/Object Storage solutions. Deep understanding of microservices architecture , distributed systems, and modern software design patterns. Experience working with Big Data technologies and data-intensive applications. Experience operating within Agile DevSecOps environments. Knowledge ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Spencer Rose Ltd
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 35 Daily
today Java (8/11/17+) with strong hands-on experience in enterprise application development. Microservices Architecture using Spring Boot, REST APIs, and distributed system design. Apache Kafka for event-driven architecture, messaging, and asynchronous processing. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including deployment, monitoring, and cloud-native services. Containerisation ...

Back-End Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Spencer Rose
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£420 - £430/day Inside IR35
today Java (8/11/17+) with strong hands-on experience in enterprise application development. Microservices Architecture using Spring Boot, REST APIs, and distributed system design. Apache Kafka for event-driven architecture, messaging, and asynchronous processing. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including deployment, monitoring, and cloud-native services. Containerisation ...

Backend Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Spencer Rose
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£475/day Inside IR35
/17+) with strong hands-on experience in enterprise application development. Strong Back End development experience Microservices Architecture using Spring Boot, REST APIs, and distributed system design. Apache Kafka for event-driven architecture, messaging, and asynchronous processing. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including deployment, monitoring, and cloud-native services. Containerisation ...

AWS Tech Lead

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
migration programmes. • A strong enterprise Java background, including Java 17 or later; Java 21 is preferred. • Significant technical leadership experience across multidisciplinary and distributed teams. • Fluent written and spoken English. Technical expertise You'll bring strong knowledge of: • AWS architecture: AWS Well-Architected Framework, multi-account environments, landing zones … design principles and disaster recovery. • AWS services: EC2, ECS and/or EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager and Route 53. • Software and integration architecture: Java, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, microservices, distributed systems, enterprise integration patterns ...

Software Architect - .NET / Warehouse Automation

Hiring Organisation
Computer Futures
Location
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£75,000
Control System (WCS) used in highly automated logistics environments. This platform sits at the heart of real-time operations, orchestrating material flow across conveyor systems, integrating with PLC controls, robotics (AMR/AGV), and upstream enterprise platforms such as WMS and ERP. This is a highly technical position where … Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, and security Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues, including concurrency, bottlenecks, and integration failures Systems Integration Own and define integration patterns between the WCS platform and external systems including PLCs, WMS, ERP, and robotics platforms Design robust, scalable ...

Senior C# .Net Developer

Hiring Organisation
Advanced Resource Managers Limited
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£500.00 per day
highly regulated environment. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain enterprise applications using C# and .NET. Develop scalable, secure and high-performance APIs, services and distributed applications. Work with Technical Analysts and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions. Contribute to solution architecture, technical design and code reviews. Develop … REST APIs and microservices SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures and optimisation Entity Framework/ORM Object-oriented design and design patterns Distributed systems and enterprise integration Unit and automated testing Azure DevOps, Git and CI/CD Agile/Scrum delivery Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation. Continuously update technologies and patterns to keep systems current. Design and build solutions that avoid single points of failure using scalable architectural patterns. Design and build scalable, secure, and reliable solutions … React, Angular). Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality challenges with minimal supervision. Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed systems, and web technologies, including RESTful APIs and web services, WebSockets, and JSON. Hands-on experience designing and building scalable applications using ...

Senior Engineering Lead - Business Onboarding

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
need?: You have strong, hands-on technical experience in OOP Languages (Java codebase) and modern technology stacks on technologies such as REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines - you will have to complete technical interviews to showcase your knowledge. You have proven experience in leading … grow and succeed. You have a strong product and customer mindset and experience building customer facing products. You have experience working with and building distributed, high scalability systems and microservices architectures You're a great communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Cathcart Technology
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
influence while remaining closely involved in building software. The engineering environment includes: Java and Spring Boot AWS cloud infrastructure, including serverless technologies Microservices and distributed systems Docker and Kubernetes Terraform and Infrastructure as Code CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines Test-Driven Development (TDD) Pair programming … genuine interest in writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code. Experience working in collaborative Agile engineering environments. An understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems. The ability to balance hands-on delivery with wider technical responsibilities. Experience with AWS, DevOps tooling, containerisation and Infrastructure as Code would ...

Software Engineer [Camunda, Full Stack, Java, React, Kafka, Kubernetes]

Hiring Organisation
GIOS Technology Limited
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Daily
testing, performance and engineering best practices. Hands-on Camunda development experience, particularly around workflow/process automation and integration. Expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, and software design. Proven experience building microservices, REST APIs, and Kafka-based solutions. Experience with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift. Strong understanding ...

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect

Hiring Organisation
Diana Duggan UK Limited
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£400.00 per day
across the project by creating coding that actively reviews, debugs, and help support team members with their coding Lead architectural design for cloud-native systems and services, producing comprehensive design artifacts (RFCs, ADRs, architecture diagrams) that are reviewed and adopted across multiple teams Own operational excellence by proactively identifying …/CD, Application Resiliency, Security, and capacity planning Demonstrated expertise in a technical discipline (e.g., cloud architecture, artificial intelligence/machine learning, mobile, distributed systems, security, DevOps/platform engineering) In-depth knowledge of financial services industry and their IT systems, regulatory constraints, and operational requirements Practical ...

Test Engineer, Cloud & Data

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65,000
Lambda o Glue o EMR o ECS/EKS o RDS o IAM o CloudWatch Understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, and microservices. Experience validating infrastructure, platform services, APIs, and cloud deployments. Test Automation Strong automation skills using Python . Experience with test automation frameworks such ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
TXP
Location
Cumbria, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£370 - £420/day
continuous improvement initiatives across development practices and platform capabilities. Perform code reviews and promote engineering best practices. Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across distributed systems. Mentor junior developers and contribute to the wider engineering community. Essential Skills & Experience Strong commercial Java development experience. Experience delivering solutions within ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
TXP Technology x People
Location
Alston, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£370.00 - £420.00 per day
continuous improvement initiatives across development practices and platform capabilities. Perform code reviews and promote engineering best practices. Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across distributed systems. Mentor junior developers and contribute to the wider engineering community. Essential Skills & Experience Strong commercial Java development experience. Experience delivering solutions within ...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Location
Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70000 - £75000/annum
anticipate user demands and drive innovation. Additionally, you'll take the lead in providing operational support and technical oversight for several large-scale distributed applications. How You'll Contribute: Monitor and interpret system and application metrics to fine-tune performance and troubleshoot issues effectively Collaborate closely with developers … structured release practices Engage in architectural discussions, manage platform operations, and contribute to capacity forecasting Design and implement automated solutions to build resilient, scalable systems Maintain a strong focus on delivering new features while ensuring stability and adherence to service level goals You'll Stand Out If You Have ...

Technical Team Lead - TypeScript & Node.js

Hiring Organisation
INFUSED SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Location
Folkestone, Kent, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£95,000
with business priorities and delivery deadlines. Desirable Experience AWS or Azure cloud environments. Microservices and event-driven architecture. Docker and containerisation. Infrastructure as Code. Distributed systems and domain-led architecture. Frontend technologies and full-stack development. AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor or similar tools. Experience ...