176 to 200 of 1,812 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Digital Assets Platform Engineering Team Lead - SVP

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
builder's mindset, a disciplined enterprise engineer's rigor, and the executive presence to lead, inspire, and align large teams across a globally distributed organization. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and own the end-to-end technical strategy and architecture for the CIDAP platform, ensuring alignment with Citi … standards, risk appetite, and long-term business objectives Provide authoritative technical guidance on backend engineering (Java/Spring), Web3 infrastructure, blockchain integration patterns, and distributed systems design Champion engineering excellence across the platform — setting the bar for code quality, system resilience, scalability, and performance Evaluate and introduce emerging ...

Fullstack Engineer

Location
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
well tested Design and maintain scalable Go-based microservices Build and support REST and gRPC APIs Develop integrations and event-driven solutions across distributed systems Improve observability, reliability, scalability, and security Deploy and support applications in AWS Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines Participate … Strong React and TypeScript development experience At least 1 year of experience building backend services with Go (Golang) Knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems Experience with NoSQL databases Proficiency with Git and modern development practices Experience working within Agile teams Strong problem-solving and communication skills ...

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)

Hiring Organisation
Humanloop
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
models, with significant impacts on the autonomy and coding capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5. Our work spans several key areas: Developing systems that enable models to use computers effectivelyAdvancing code generation through reinforcement learningPioneering fundamental RL research for large language modelsBuilding scalable RL infrastructure and training … methodologiesEnhancing model reasoning capabilitiesWe collaborate closely with Anthropic's alignment and frontier red teams to ensure our systems are both capable and safe. We partner with the applied production training team to bring research innovations into deployed models, and are dedicated to implement our research at scale. Our Reinforcement ...

Software Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
edge research into robust, production-quality software. This is a role for someone who enjoys getting deep into technical problems - whether that means designing systems, working on algorithms, solving concurrency challenges, or figuring out how to make complex workloads reliable at scale. What you will do: You’ll work … supporting infrastructure Contributing to algorithms and the implementation of novel AI capabilities Translating research concepts and prototypes into maintainable, production-ready software Designing systems capable of handling large-scale reasoning and inference workloads Working with concurrent, parallel and distributed systems Making architectural decisions around performance, reliability ...

Senior Java Developer IRC303859

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
using technologies such as Spring Boot, with automation as a core engineering principle. You’ll be comfortable designing and delivering robust, scalable and resilient distributed systems, with a strong focus on reliability, observability and operational excellence. Exposure to agentic coding practices where it adds value, would be hugely … beneficial You’ll also need: Strong experience building robust, resilient and defensively coded distributed systems, ideally leveraging technologies such as Kafka and an understanding of designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale, including versioning, observability, monitoring, and forward, backward compatibility Experience with event driven architectures, both orchestrated ...

Core AI Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
teams’ most powerful ideas. As part of our engineering team, you’ll shape the platforms and tools that drive high‐impact research - designing systems that scale, accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm. Take the next step in your career. The role The Core AI team … through seamless integrations and user‐facing tools. Key responsibilities of the role include: Designing and operating model serving infrastructure, including inference pipelines and scheduling systems Building and running centralised MCP servers, ensuring secure, reliable access to enterprise tools and data Owning platform reliability, performance and scalability across Kubernetes‐based ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Formula Recruitment Limited
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
have genuine technical authority over a business-critical API platform while staying close to the engineering, partnering with skilled squads to solve complex distributed systems challenges at scale. Key Responsibilities: Set the technical direction for a large-scale API platform across both synchronous and event-driven servicesLead architectural … clean architectureIdentify practical ways to bring emerging technologies, including AI tooling, into everyday engineering workflows~Key Requirements: A strong track record delivering large-scale distributed systems in cloud environmentsDeep knowledge of API design - REST and GraphQL, and substantial hands-on experience with Kafka in a production environmentSolid cloud ...

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Combinator. The role We're looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Foundations team, the backend backbone that builds the reliable, scalable, fast systems everyone else at Encord builds on top of. The team's core challenges sit deep in distributed and data-intensive systems. The product … driver of that growth. A year ago, we were a team of 100; now, we're over 150 and continuing to accelerate. The systems that got us here won't get us to what's next. That's the problem you'll help solve. What you'll do Take ...

Software Engineer, Enterprise

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
businesses to seamlessly integrate AI into their operations at production scale. We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help bring large-scale GenAI systems to production. In this role, you’ll build the core infrastructure that powers AI products for some of the world’s largest enterprises—designing … scalable APIs, distributed data systems, and robust deployment pipelines that enable production-grade reliability and performance. This is a rare opportunity to be at the center of the GenAI revolution, solving hard backend and infrastructure challenges that make AI truly work at enterprise scale. If you're excited ...

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
measurable value. You’ll own the full lifecycle—from architecture and build through to deployment and adoption—embedding AI into real workflows, integrating enterprise systems, and ensuring solutions are secure, reliable, and truly user-centric. Sitting close to the business, you’ll continuously refine solutions to maximise impact, efficiency … enabled systems. You’ll bring deep expertise across modern full-stack technologies (.NET, Azure, SQL, React/Angular), along with experience in distributed systems, observability, and AI tooling such as LLMs, retrieval pipelines, agentic workflows, and platforms such as Anthropic Claude. Experience designing and deploying AI agents, leveraging ...

Sr. SDET - Cloud, Detection Engineer (Hybrid, London)

Hiring Organisation
CrowdStrike
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count … complex architectures. A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, etc.)Experience in building, validating, and/or maintaining large distributed systems at scale. Solid design and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated passion for engineering excellence, quality, security, and performance, coupled with ...

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
company blog to learn more about what we are working on! About The Role We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to build infrastructure systems from scratch, bridging the gap between our research and product development. In this role, you will develop robust, scalable software systems behind … based on the discoveries and advancements in AI from our researchers. We are looking for a problem-solver that has experience working on complex, distributed systems and are passionate about advancements in AI and software development. Key Responsibilities Collaborate with AI research scientists to translate state ...

Principal Software Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
technology vision for the organisation. Provide deep technical guidance to multiple engineering teams across projects. Lead the design and delivery of large-scale distributed systems that integrate AI and data services. Champion engineering excellence , establishing standards for code quality, performance, and reliability. Collaborate with product and AI leadership … software systems. Deep technical expertise across the full stack , with mastery in Python , TypeScript/React , and cloud-native architectures . Proven experience architecting distributed systems and integrating AI services or data platforms . Experience setting technical direction , establishing patterns, and guiding multiple teams. Strong understanding of DevOps ...

Senior Architect Private Cloud

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day Inside IR35 via Umbrella
with deep hands-on expertise in at least two of the following: Kubernetes/Containers , Kafka/Event Streaming , or VMware/Virtualization . Distributed Systems: Proven background in designing secure, fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed systems within regulated enterprise environments. DevOps & IaC: Practical experience with ...

Senior PHP Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
ready to pick up Laravel and apply their skills to our ecosystem. Your main responsibilities will be to: Lead the design of high-performance distributed systems capable of handling global traffic Develop and refine services to improve scalability and efficiency Drive the transition toward a service-oriented architecture … with a deep mastery of PHP 4+ years of building enterprise-grade applications in Laravel or an equivalent senior background in Symfony Mastery of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and messaging patterns like SQS or Pub/Sub AI Proficiency: Ability to effectively use AI tools during technical ...

Senior Software Engineer (Cloud)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure systems. You’ll collaborate closely with the rest of our engineering team to design APIs, build backend systems, and implement cloud integrations, ensuring seamless functionality with our embedded platform. This position is ideal for a mid-level or senior engineer who is looking … users Identify and resolve bugs, and write automated tests to ensure system reliability and maintainability Stay informed about advancements in cloud computing, distributed systems, and secure software practices, applying these insights to your work What We’re Looking For Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science ...

Senior Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Archangel Lightworks Ltd
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
About the job As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will play a critical role in the specification, design, integration, and test of our Optical Ground Stations and other products. This role involves working closely with internal engineering teams, external partners, and customers to ensure the systems support … leading a small team, planning sprints, and coordinating activities to ensure timely and successful project delivery. This is a cross-functional role that bridges systems engineering and other engineering disciplines, and operational workflows. Your responsibilities will include: Own systems or subsystems as required, leading specification and verification activities ...

Senior Back-end Software Engineer

Location
Belfast City District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
engineering function focused on building highly scalable backend services using modern Java technologies, cloud platforms and DevOps practices. The team develops secure, high-performance distributed systems, delivering new capabilities while continually improving reliability, automation and operational performance. As a Back-End Software Engineer , you will design, develop … experience developing server-side Java applications . Experience building, deploying and supporting software in live production environments. Strong understanding of backend architecture, scalability and distributed systems . Experience developing RESTful APIs and backend integrations . Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation . Experience working within ...

Senior Software Engineer-AI

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
services and cloud-native applications Strong coding proficiency in TypeScript, Python, C#, or similar technologies, with experience building scalable application programming interfaces, microservices, and distributed systems Practical experience building enterprise AI applications using large language models, including agents, retrieval augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, and model optimization Demonstrated ability … services and cloud-native applications Strong coding proficiency in TypeScript, Python, C#, or similar technologies, with experience building scalable application programming interfaces, microservices, and distributed systems Practical experience building enterprise AI applications using large language models, including agents, retrieval augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, and model optimization Demonstrated ability ...

Lead Software Engineer

Location
Slough, England, United Kingdom
London deep tech company building the software backbone for the autonomous age. Their platform lets operators orchestrate fleets of robots, sensors and autonomous systems, fuse the vast data they generate, and turn it into decisions made faster than any adversary can react. Real systems, deployed in the world … actually matters. Well funded, scaling hard, and engineering led to the core. The problem space This is not CRUD. You'll be architecting systems that ingest and fuse high volume, heterogeneous sensor streams in real time, coordinate autonomous agents over unreliable and contested networks, and surface complex state ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Durlston Partners
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
London deep tech company building the software backbone for the autonomous age. Their platform lets operators orchestrate fleets of robots, sensors and autonomous systems, fuse the vast data they generate, and turn it into decisions made faster than any adversary can react. Real systems, deployed in the world … actually matters. Well funded, scaling hard, and engineering led to the core. The problem space This is not CRUD. You'll be architecting systems that ingest and fuse high volume, heterogeneous sensor streams in real time, coordinate autonomous agents over unreliable and contested networks, and surface complex state ...

Senior Platform Software Engineer - R&D Automation

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
that millions of learners and tutors rely on every day. Our platform handles over 20bln requests per month, and we combine software engineering, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to keep it reliable at scale while making it faster and easier for engineering teams to build … entire software development lifecycle. AI platforms and capabilities: creating reusable foundations, tools and integrations that allow agents to interact effectively with our codebases, engineering systems and internal knowledge. Experimentation at speed: rapidly prototyping new approaches, measuring their effectiveness and scaling the ones that create meaningful value. Safe and reliable ...

Card Solutions Architects - Contract role - Sheffield - Immediate

Hiring Organisation
StrategicsIQ Ltd
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
drive architecture and design across a large-scale commercial cards ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Own and deliver end-to-end solution architecture for card-based systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and platform roadmaps Translate business requirements (BRDs) into solution designs , decomposing into MVPs, epics, and detailed technical stories … Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure architectures across distributed systems Define integration patterns (REST APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture) across internal platforms and external partners Provide hands-on architectural leadership to engineering teams, ensuring design consistency and adherence to standards Govern solutions through architecture review boards , ensuring ...

Software Engineer (Cloud)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure systems. You’ll collaborate closely with the rest of our engineering team to design APIs, build backend systems, and implement cloud integrations, ensuring seamless functionality with our embedded platform. This position is ideal for an early-career engineer with a few years … users Identify and resolve bugs, and write automated tests to ensure system reliability and maintainability Stay informed about advancements in cloud computing, distributed systems, and secure software practices, applying these insights to your work What We’re Looking For Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science ...

Senior JVM Engineers - Java, Scala & Kotlin

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
performing engineering team in Canary Wharf. This is a hands‐on role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, building highly scalable systems and working in a strong engineering culture. You’ll work primarily across the JVM ecosystem , with Java, Scala and/or Kotlin , contributing … design and development of robust, high‐performance distributed systems. You’ll be expected to bring strong software engineering fundamentals, with TDD, clean code and automated testing embedded in your approach to development. Strong CI/CD experience is essential, along with a solid understanding of modern engineering practices ...