126 to 150 of 376 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

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 ...

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling; you understand how enterprise teams structure, version, and maintain IaC at scale Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, including networking fundamentals: ingress controllers, proxies, load balancers, and DNS resolution in cloud-native environments Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design … cloud security and identity: IAM patterns, network segmentation, secrets management, and compliance-relevant controls Understanding of observability practices including logging, metrics, and tracing across distributed systems Experience with AI tooling at both the user level (coding agents, assistants) and infrastructure level (model proxies, LLM routing layers such ...

Principal .NET Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & AI

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
best practices across your domain Lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams and programmes Design and oversee delivery of large-scale, high-availability systems using modern Microsoft technologies Provide expert guidance on technical risk, architecture decisions and prioritisation Support Staff Engineers and delivery teams through hands-on technical leadership … expertise in ASP.NET Core, Web API, C#, Entity Framework Strong experience with Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka and Microservices architecture Experience with MongoDB, cloud integrations and distributed systems Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript Experience using Terraform/Infrastructure as Code Strong understanding of software architecture and scalable system design ...

Senior Engineering Manager, SVP

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
enhance developer efficiency and experience. System Integration & Performance: Direct the integration of quantitative libraries and models into critical front‐office trading and risk management systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability. Research & Innovation: Drive research into new quantitative techniques, market trends, regulatory changes, and application of Artificial Intelligence … roles. Deep, hands‐on expertise in Java and the Spring Boot framework. Expert‐level proficiency in Python.Strong understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, distributed systems, and service decomposition patterns. Strong proficiency in SQL and relational database design, with hands‐on experience in Microsoft SQL Server or equivalent ...

AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Halian Technology Limited
Location
Reading, 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 ...

Founding Engineer / Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Coburg Banks Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
enabling cars to automatically detect, process, and settle real-world road charges without driver intervention. Parking. Tolls. Congestion charging. Airport drop-offs. Today these systems are fragmented, manual, and operationally painful. The mission: make vehicle payments invisible. The business is launching where the pain is greatest - rental and fleet … defining the future team and culture. This is a hands-on builder role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly, and enjoys creating systems from first principles. What you will own Designing and building the core platform and architecture - you decide the technology stack . Integrating with telematics ...

Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Backend Engineer to lead the evolution of a global platform supporting international expansion and acquisition integration. This role focuses on building and scaling transaction systems that enable global commerce, while evolving an existing real-time platform to support new markets. You will address backend capacity constraints and help design … senior engineering role requiring both high-quality delivery and strong technical leadership in ambiguous, high-scale environments. You will be expected to: Design scalable systems with correctness and failure modes considered from the outset Clarify and scope requirements before proposing solutions Make pragmatic trade-offs in system design, avoiding ...

Site Reliability / Software Engineer - SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Searchability NS&D
Location
Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£45,000 - £65,000 per annum
Bonus To appy, email: Overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a technically versatile engineer to join a growing team delivering secure, mission-critical systems within a highly regulated environment. This role combines hands-on software engineering with Site Reliability and DevOps responsibilities, making it ideal for someone … development, deployment automation, monitoring and live service support. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain secure, scalable software applications and services Support and enhance critical live systems, improving reliability and stability Automate operational and deployment tasks to reduce manual effort Contribute to backend and service development using Java and Python Work ...

Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
OpenSourced Ltd
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £70,000 per annum
directly controls physical robotic platforms operating in demanding environments. If you enjoy solving complex robotics challenges using modern C++, ROS2 and real-world control systems, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing Developing modern C++ software for autonomous robotic systems Building and maintaining … ROS2-based robotic applications Working on motion planning, trajectory generation and robot control Integrating perception, sensor and vision systems Collaborating with software, electronics and mechanical engineering teams What We're Looking For Strong modern C++ experience Commercial ROS2 experience Robotics, automation or autonomous systems background Linux development experience ...

AI Platform/ DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
The Portfolio Group
Location
City of London, London, Castle Baynard, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70000 - £80000/annum + Benefits
into production-ready, well-architected platform components What we're looking for Proven experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles delivering production-grade systems on AWS Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, specifically with EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and ECS (Elastic Container Service) in production environments Strong Terraform experience … with vector databases or search infrastructure (OpenSearch, Algolia) is a strong advantage Python proficiency for scripting, automation, and deploying production services Solid grasp of distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, microservices, and API design Ownership mindset - comfortable operating autonomously across reliability, performance, cost, and security Why join ...

Digital Developer Senior

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Analysis, User‐Centred Design, Engineering) Write clean, secure, and maintainable code using test‐driven development principles Design and deliver scalable, resilient, and high‐performing systems aligned to modern engineering standards Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to define and deliver user‐focused solutions Manage service components to ensure … needs and performance targets Embed security controls into system design to mitigate risks and threats Coordinate integration, build activities, and support testing across multiple systems Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve faults, defects, and performance issues Support and operate live production services, ensuring reliability, resilience, and stability Apply appropriate design standards ...

Senior Gen AI Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £700 per day
powered applications. The role would suit a strong software engineer with hands-on experience building cloud-native applications, embedding AI capabilities into production systems, and taking ownership across the full delivery lifecycle. Key responsibilities: * Design, build and maintain AI-enabled applications using enterprise GenAI services* Develop production-grade microservices … applications* Ensure applications meet non-functional requirements around security, scalability, resiliency, performance and cost Essential skills: * Strong software engineering background with experience delivering complex distributed systems* Proven experience building and deploying production-grade applications that embed AI capabilities* Strong Python experience* Experience with LangGraph, Strands and DeepEval* Strong ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions. Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles. Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing (TDD/… Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js), backend development (Java or Python), and building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications. Expertise in data engineering & platforms including SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, and integration of data science and analytics. Experience ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Temporary
Salary
£525 per day, Inc benefits
ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions. Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles. Optimize solutions for cloud-native environments, focusing on more than just "lift-and-shift … Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js, backend development using Java or Python, building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications). Proficiency in data engineering & platforms (SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, data wrangling). Experience delivering cloud-native solutions ...

Java Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Wembley, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £85,000 per annum
Engineering Lead who breathes engineering excellence . If you're a 10+ year Java/Spring Boot expert who is tired of bloated, unmaintainable systems and wants the authority to "fix it properly" , this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact. You will work directly with the Head … Binary stream processing Structured logging (Application Insights) Security-first development Drive a culture of clean, maintainable, production-grade code Cloud-Native Excellence Ensure all systems are built for Azure Container Apps from day one Own best practice implementation across: Stateless architecture Health check endpoints Secure secret management (Azure ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£50,000
large-scale data platforms (3+ years) Proficiency in Java or Python Hands-on experience with streaming technologies (Kafka/Flink preferred) Good understanding of distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS ideally) Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices Why consider this role? Work ...

Senior ML Platform Engineer - Robotics

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £750 per day
archival processes* Containerise and orchestrate services to ensure reliable deployment across machines and lab environments* Partner with ML engineers on dataset building, ingestion pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, and high-throughput data workflows* Work with robotics engineers on ROS2 integration, robot data streams, deployment workflows, and hardware-adjacent platform tooling … Improve testing, CI, observability, reliability, and performance across concurrent and IO-heavy systems Essential Skills You must have: * Senior-level software engineering experience, ideally 5+ years* Strong production Python experience* Experience with typing, async/await, threading, multiprocessing, and concurrent workloads* FastAPI or another async Python web framework* Vanilla ...

Senior Software Engineer - National Security (Data Systems)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Senior Software Engineer - National Security (Data Systems) About the role You'll design and deliver scalable data processing solutions for customers operating in highly sensitive, demanding environments. This is hands-on technical work: you'll architect cloud-native systems, lead data pipeline development, and work directly with technical … willing to relocate to Gloucester 5+ years' professional experience with cloud data engineering (AWS focus) Hands-on experience: Python or Java, Hadoop/distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines Proven ability to design scalable architectures and mentor technical teams What we're looking for You think in systems ...

Solution Architect (Azure Cloud)

Hiring Organisation
Expleo UK LTD
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Define, design, and govern the end-to-end technical architecture across cloud and on-premise systems, ensuring scalability, security, maintainability, and alignment with business and enterprise architecture objectives. The role is responsible for establishing Azure-based solution architectures, guiding delivery teams, and ensuring that technology decisions drive long-term … Design end-to-end solution architectures across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure within Microsoft Azure environments Define architectural patterns for cloud-native, hybrid, and distributed systems Develop high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD), ensuring clarity for delivery teams Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure ...

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 ...

Head of Analytics Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
analytics— ensuring they are scalable, production‐grade, and aligned to client workflows. The role sits at the intersection of financial domain expertise, large‐scale distributed systems engineering, and applied AI/ML, with accountability for how analytics products are engineered, productionised, and scaled across LSEG. The role combines … markets. Strong domain knowledge in fixed income and derivatives, including pricing and risk concepts. Strong programming expertise (Python, Java, C++) with proven experience building distributed data and analytics systems, including high‐throughput pipelines and low‐latency computation. Strong understanding of AI/ML systems and production deployment ...

Senior Developer

Hiring Organisation
Addition
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £90,000 per annum
rather than chasing hype. As their platform continues to scale, they're looking for a Senior Developer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, improving systems, and building software that stands up in production. The Good Bits: £70,000 - £90,000 Hybrid working Exposure to large-scale SaaS platforms Clear … progression opportunities A collaborative engineering culture that values learning and continuous improvement The chance to work on systems used by thousands of people every day A Typical Day in the Role: Building and improving APIs that support critical platform functionality Investigating production issues and tracing problems across distributed ...

Software Engineer III (Java / Spring)

Hiring Organisation
Elsevier
Location
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. Software Engineer III (Java/Spring) Are you passionate about building high‐performance backend systems? Do you thrive on solving complex engineering challenges with Java and Spring? About the team: Our team is dedicated to unlocking the rich knowledge … Software Engineer III to help design, build, and improve services that support document transformation and semantic enrichment workflows. They will work on systems that process content at scale, expose reliable APIs, and support event-driven integrations across the platform. This role is well-suited to someone who enjoys building ...

Test Engineer (SFIA 4)

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£300 - £360 per day
risks, issues, and areas for improvement Produce clear reports on testing activities, outcomes, and associated risks Automate data validation and application testing processes across distributed systems Investigate production issues using data analysis to identify root causes Work with orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow) to monitor workflows and troubleshoot … services, including: Monitoring and logging tools Storage and data services Compute and container services Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitLab) Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) Familiarity with Docker and containerised environments Data & Analytics Strong data analysis skills, including working with structured ...

Staff Engineer (Full Stack)

Hiring Organisation
Feeld
Location
Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary
100000 to 130000 GBP Annually
building a world where everyone is more intimately connected to each other and themselves. We’re an inclusive, human‐centred product with a distributed engineering team. We’re hiring a Staff Engineer (Full Stack) to raise the reliability and operability of our production systems across backend and mobile … hands‐on individual contributor role with significant cross‐team influence: you’ll lead through technical decisions, incident leadership, and pragmatic improvements to systems and process. Team context Reporting line: Sits on the Platform team reporting to the Head of Platform Engineering. Works closely with engineering leadership and partners ...