101 to 125 of 368 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Lead Engineer

Hiring Organisation
scrumconnect ltd
Location
Swansea, West Glamorgan, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 70,000 Annual
Experience working in standards-driven environments, including exposure to GDS-aligned projects, is valuable. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and development of Back End systems using Java (8/11/17+) and Spring Boot Define and implement scalable microservices architecture Own technical design, architecture, and system integrations Guide … Required Skills & Qualifications Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot ecosystem Proven experience in technical leadership or team lead role Deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and system design Experience designing and building RESTful APIs at scale Hands-on experience with: Hibernate/JPA Messaging systems (Kafka ...

Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer (Senior)

Hiring Organisation
Salt Search
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Temporary
Salary
£500 - £800 per day
days onsite per month is required Inside of IR35 - will need to use an Umbrella Job Description: Emerging technologies such as cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and automated delivery pipelines are transforming how modern financial infrastructures are built and operated. The Innovation Tribe is driving this transformation … Compliance by Design Implement security controls (identity, access, secrets management, network security) in line with CISO and GTS requirements . Monitoring, Observability & Reliability Ensure systems are observable and resilient by implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization. Release & Deployment Support Support release processes, ensuring infrastructure readiness and smooth deployment ...

Engineering Manager - AI Fleet Management & Honk

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers. What if the systems you built changed how millions of developers work — not just at Spotify, but across the industry? The Platform Developer Experience (PDX) team builds … infrastructure, directly improving how developers ship and maintain software at scale. What You’ll Do Lead and grow a team building AI-native backend systems that orchestrate large-scale, autonomous fleet changes Define the technical vision for integrating LLM-powered reasoning and agent-based execution into production infrastructure Architect ...

Java Developer - Payments

Hiring Organisation
Huxley Associates
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80000 - £130000/annum
bank requires an experienced hands-on Java developer and technical architect with deep expertise in real-time third-party payments, high-throughput zero-downtime systems, and highly available, global-scale internet-facing APIs. This role is central to scaling the TFX technology platform for major retail clients and requires … setting the technical standard through design, code-level guidance, and practical problem solving. Design, build, and evolve highly available, high-throughput, zero-downtime systems and internet-facing APIs that can scale securely for large retail and external client volumes. Lead architectural decisions across API design, domain modelling, integration patterns ...

Principal / Lead Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Intec Select Ltd
Location
London, Billingsgate, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £700/day
secure environments Evaluate and integrate appropriate open-source technologies and third-party components Contribute to the design and delivery of scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems Collaboration & Team Development Act as a senior technical contributor within a high-performing engineering team Mentor engineers and help establish a strong … with business objectives Engage with external partners, suppliers, and stakeholders where required Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience leading or making significant contributions to complex distributed, cloud-native, or federated systems Strong software engineering expertise in Python, including backend development, automation, and infrastructure tooling Hands-on experience with ...

Application Designer

Hiring Organisation
Halian Technology Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day
organisation, driving continuous innovation and delivering reliable, high-quality solutions to support critical business operations. The technology landscape includes HP NonStop (Tandem) systems and a distributed Linux-based messaging and communications infrastructure. The successful candidate will contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from design through to delivery … WebSphere MQ v9 Databases: Oracle 19 (SQL, PL/SQL, data modelling) Messaging & Data Formats: MRM, XML, JSON Integration Exposure Kafka HP NonStop systems SWIFT connectivity Required Skills & Experience Proven experience across the full software development lifecycle Strong **analysis, design andHeres a clean, fully anonymised and market-ready version ...

Senior Cloud Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
provisioning and configuration. Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps. Support the operation of distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance and security. Contribute coding expertise in languages such as Python, Go or JavaScript. Collaborate closely with clients and cross … automation platforms. Practical programming experience in at least one mainstream language (Python, Go, JavaScript). Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, security principles and distributed systems. Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS). Nice to have experience with AI assisted coding tools or agentic AI. Nice to have leadership ...

Go Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
itecopeople
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£60,000
looking for candidates with strong commercial experience in: Go/Golang backend development Full stack software engineering within Agile environments REST APIs, integrations and distributed systems React and modern frontend development CI/CD, Git and cloud-based delivery practices Docker and Kubernetes Code reviews, testing and engineering ...

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. ...

Solution Engineer (Aeron and Capital Markets)

Hiring Organisation
Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd
Location
Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
assets Familiarity with appropriate data structures and their usages (e.g. sets, maps and queues) Relevant experience in building solutions within these domains: Order Management Systems Execution Management Systems Smart Order Routing Trading Venues & Exchanges Matching Engines Algo Containers Risk Management FIX Gateways Experienced in working within an Agile … environment and following a mature SDLC. Experience with Distributed Systems and Consensus Algorithms Experience with Event-driven architecture Experience with Replicated State Machines WHY US : To work on exciting and groundbreaking client projects where you have the opportunity to innovate and drive change at pace To be immersed ...

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 ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
creating unnecessary complexity. A major focus of this role will be technical leadership across Moneybox’s payments, money movement, interest and fee systems. These systems underpin how customer money moves through the platform, how interest is calculated and paid and how fees are collected. Their correctness, reliability and auditability … deliberately limited so this role can stay close to the technical detail, with a clear focus on technical leadership, delivery, engineering standards and building systems that improve long‐term engineering velocity. Our Tech Stack You do not need experience with our exact stack, but you should be able ...

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 ...

Backend Software Engineer - Python

Hiring Organisation
Talent Locker
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Head of Engineering Salary: £90,000-£105,000 + benefits Are you a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives on designing and scaling complex systems? Do you enjoy working on data-intensive platforms involving real-time pipelines, streaming architectures, and graph-based services? This is a hands-on role within … while contributing to the overall technical direction. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and own backend services and data pipelines in Python Develop and operate streaming systems using Kafka or similar technologies Work with graph-based data structures and algorithms to support analytics and decision-making Build reliable, scalable systems ...

Lead Cloud Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
provisioning and configuration. Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps. Support the operation of distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance and security. Contribute coding expertise in languages such as Python, Go or JavaScript. Collaborate closely with clients and cross … automation platforms. Practical programming experience in at least one mainstream language (Python, Go, JavaScript). Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, security principles and distributed systems. Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS). Nice to have experience with AI assisted coding tools or agentic AI. Strong leadership skills ...

Director of Software Engineering- J.P. Morgan Personal Investing

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
processes. You will be responsible for shaping technical strategy, building and mentoring high‐performing managers and engineers, and delivering reliable, secure, and scalable systems that support our business goals through innovation. Job Responsibilities Partner with Product to define and drive the strategy your teams will deliver across multiple time … consumer market. Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non‐technical audiences in complex domains. Strong technical background in modern architectures (distributed systems, cloud‐native, event‐driven architectures), SDLC, and DevOps practices. Proven track record leading and scaling agile teams that deliver complex, high‐availability systems ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Uniting Ambition
Location
Crewe, Middlewich, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
doesn’t want to move away from coding. You’ll be joining a well-established organisation with a growing tech function, working on modern systems in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment. There’s real opportunity here to shape technical direction, influence architecture, and grow your leadership capability — without losing … embed engineering best practices across the team What you’ll bring Strong background in C# and .NET Core development Experience working with microservices and distributed systems Frontend development experience (Angular or similar frameworks) Solid understanding of SQL databases and performance tuning Experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Elsevier
Location
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
lifecycle-from submission and peer review through to editorial decisions and publication. We focus on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement as we modernise core systems and introduce new capabilities. About the Role This role provides senior technical leadership across multiple teams, helping to shape architecture, engineering practices, and modernisation … patterns Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, resilience, and incident learning Establish pragmatic technical standards and promote consistency across teams Mentor engineers in architecture, systems thinking, and engineering best practices Requirements Experience operating as a senior or principal engineer across multiple teams or domains Proven ability to influence architectural ...

Senior Staff+ Software Engineer (Kubernetes Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
response, and design processes (postmortems, runbooks, SLOs) that help the team avoid repeating failures Minimum qualifications Significant software engineering experience building and operating production distributed systems Proficiency in at least one systems-appropriate language (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, or C++) Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience (well beyond … from API behavior down to node and network-level root causes A track record of designing for reliability, correctness, and clear failure semantics in systems other engineers depend on Strong written and verbal communication; comfort building consensus with internal stakeholders Preferred qualifications Experience with Kubernetes internals or contributions: kube ...

Lead C# Developer

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£75,000 - £90,000 per annum
best practice Collaborate with stakeholders to align tech with business goals Shape and deliver long-term technical roadmaps Build and scale real-time backend systems Lead cloud modernisation (AWS, containers, IaC) Evolve modular, maintainable architectures Improve CI/CD, observability, and system reliability This role has been created with … opportunity to build a team and function your way Direct mentorship from a long-tenured, highly knowledgeable manager Exposure to complex, large-scale systems in a mature engineering environment Be part of a company that is actively investing in both technology and the North East Their wider tech stack ...

Senior AI Engineer (LLMs, Python & Java)

Hiring Organisation
Halian Technology Limited
Location
Bracknell, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£95,000
fast-growing (~280 people) Healthtech organisation making a real-world impact. This is a rare opportunity to shape the AI strategy, design production-grade systems, and bring cutting-edge LLM-powered solutions into a live product environment. The Role Youll sit at the intersection of AI, backend engineering … cloud systems , designing and deploying intelligent features that directly impact users. Expect to: Design and implement LLM-based applications (RAG pipelines, agents, copilots) Build scalable backend services using Python and Java Integrate AI into existing cloud-native SaaS platforms Own the full lifecycle: experimentation prototyping production Optimise model performance ...

Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote UK

Hiring Organisation
FBI &TMT
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
codebases, and developer workflows to improve how software is built, deployed, and operated. You'll take ownership across the stack - collaborating with engineers, improving systems end-to-end, and helping the team deliver reliably as the platform continues to grow. Core Technology Stack TypeScript/Node.js frameworks (e.g. NestJS … based backend frameworks Database tuning and optimisation (PostgreSQL or similar) Experience with container-based architectures Building internal tooling or improving developer platforms Exposure to distributed systems or event-driven architectures Experience in regulated or financial environments What We're Looking For Engineers who enjoy working in scaling environments ...

Site Reliability Engineer (Applications)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
enablers. The ideal candidate will be passionate about improving reliability and removing toil by identifying opportunities for automation and building platforms to make the systems more “reliable by default”. Responsibilities Evangelise the SRE mindset and implement best practices across the environment Understand the business and find ways … measure and enhance resilience across the application estate Eliminate the toil that emerges with complex, distributed systems by automating where possible Working as both an individual contributor and collaboratively to find new ways of improving the reliability, availability, security and performance of the infrastructure Accelerate the migration strategy ...

Booking and Messaging Java Developer (COMBJP00001223)

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600/day Negotiable
Senior Java Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems & Messaging) Location: London, UK (Hybrid) Role Type: Permanent Tech Stack: Java 8+, Concurrency, Apache Kafka/JMS/TIBCO, Spring Boot, Microservices, Low-Latency About the Team & Platform We are building and scaling a complex, high-throughput, electronic trading platform distributed … data pipelines that ingest live trade feeds directly from external international exchanges and trading venues. What You Will Do Design, implement, and adapt complex distributed trading workflows to meet shifting market and business demands. Optimize high-throughput, low-latency asynchronous processing components to handle massive transaction volumes smoothly. Work ...

Senior Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Global
Location
Glasgow City, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
recruiter directly. Accepting applications until: 31 July 2026 Job Description Your Role: Senior Platform Engineer Join our Platform team and help shape the systems that power Global's technology platforms. Working across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and application hosting environments, you'll develop and improve scalable, reliable … solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation. As a Senior Platform Engineer at Global, you will: Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Automation: Support, maintain, and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python, Java ...