176 to 200 of 344 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
hands-on) , leading a small backend pod while remaining closely involved in development. You’ll be responsible for building and evolving core backend systems that support investment workflows, financial data processing and trading-related operations. What You’ll Be Working On Building scalable backend services in Python Designing systems … workflows Leading architecture and technical design for new features Running a small engineering pod and guiding delivery Improving reliability, performance and resilience of core systems Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards across the team What We're Looking for Extensive experience with commercial Python backend development Experience building production ...

Forward Deployed Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pivotal Partners
Location
England, United Kingdom
iterating on solutions... not support. You’ll work directly with senior stakeholders (engineering, product, and leadership) to turn ambiguous problems into production-grade systems that influence real decisions. Why this role: Opportunity to join and work with leading engineers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Palantir and Scale AI. Highly technical role … technical relationship for a portfolio of enterprise customers Scope and break down ambiguous, high-impact problems into solvable components Design and build production-grade systems (APIs, data pipelines, integrations) Deploy solutions into real-world workflows that directly influence decision-making Act as a trusted advisor to senior engineers, architects ...

Fullstack AI Developer (Java/Python) - Investment Bank

Hiring Organisation
Robert Walters
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £800 per day
doing Building and enhancing cloud-native applications using Java and/or Python Developing modern React front-end solutions Designing scalable systems on AWS Delivering AI-powered features using LLMs, semantic search, and RAG architectures Driving engineering best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, testing, and system reliability Collaborating … with Java and/or Python Proven expertise with AWS cloud technologies Full stack engineering capability, ideally including React Experience building secure, production-grade distributed systems Strong understanding of modern SDLC, CI/CD, and cloud-native development Exposure to AI/ML solutions, particularly LLMs, OpenAI/ ...

Engineering Manager (AI/Platform) | AI Infrastructure | Up to £150k + life changing equity

Hiring Organisation
Salt
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
product, helping scale both the technology and the people behind it. The Role You’ll lead a team building a high-performance, distributed platform that underpins complex, data-intensive AI applications. This is not a “process-only” EM role, it’s for someone who can operate in ambiguity, build … from zero, and scale systems & teams simultaneously. What you'll be doing? Lead, grow, and mentor a team of high-calibre engineers Own delivery, roadmap, and platform reliability Partner closely with product and other engineering teams Build scalable systems, processes, and engineering standards from the ground up Drive ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Amicus
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
million in funding since inception, currently valued at over $5 billion. Their tech stack is Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and distributed systems and you will be building out their core platform with a newly built team. They have over 3000 enterprise clients and work with … learn Worked at a cutting edge tech company – Think FAANG level companies or similar Exposure to Data Engineering and Batch Processing Systems is highly advantageous They are paying between £140,000 and £180,000 with up to a 15% bonus and shares available. The ideal candidate should be able ...

Senior Automation QA Engineer (Data Engineering)

Hiring Organisation
IntaPeople
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 450 - 500 Daily
leading organisation undergoing major investment in its data and engineering capabilities is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to strengthen quality across complex, distributed systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and data engineering, supporting the delivery of high quality services and reliable data products … DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). Experience working with Git based version control. Exposure to cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP). Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture. This contract is inside IR35. You will be required to work through an umbrella company for the duration ...

Senior Automation QA Engineer (Data Engineering)

Hiring Organisation
IntaPeople
Location
Remote, Sutton South, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 - £500/day
leading organisation undergoing major investment in its data and engineering capabilities is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to strengthen quality across complex, distributed systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and data engineering, supporting the delivery of high‑quality services and reliable data products … DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). Experience working with Git‑based version control. Exposure to cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP). Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture. This contract is inside IR35. You will be required to work through an umbrella company for the duration ...

Director of Software Engineering (UK)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
United Kingdom
knowledge of the Salesforce platform—Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, REST/Platform Events, and Node.js--Salesforce integration patterns. Proven technical architect background: designed distributed systems, API contracts, data models, and performance‐critical solutions in production. Track record of schedule compression —case studies where you measurably reduced cycle ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
VIQU Ltd
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 40,000 - 50,000 Annual
infrastructure. Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK. Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. Improve monitoring, logging and observability across distributed systems. Support incident management, root cause analysis and platform reliability improvements. Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to improve operational performance and security. ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT Recruitment
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£50,000
infrastructure. Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK. Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. Improve monitoring, logging and observability across distributed systems. Support incident management, root cause analysis and platform reliability improvements. Work closely with engineering and architecture teams to improve operational performance and security. ...

AI Agentic Engineer X 3

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
next-generation intelligent healthcare solutions. They are now looking for an number of AI Agentic Engineer to help design, build, and deploy autonomous AI systems that will directly support clinical and operational decision-making. This is a highly impactful role where youll be working at the intersection … software engineering, and healthcare innovation - developing agent-based systems that can reason, plan, and act within real-world medical workflows. Youll be joining a forward-thinking engineering team that is scaling rapidly, with a strong focus on responsible AI, performance, and real-world application. What youll be doing Youll ...

AI Agentic Engineer X 3

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions Ltd
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£50000 - £85000/annum
next-generation intelligent healthcare solutions. They are now looking for an number of AI Agentic Engineer to help design, build, and deploy autonomous AI systems that will directly support clinical and operational decision-making. This is a highly impactful role where you’ll be working at the intersection … software engineering, and healthcare innovation - developing agent-based systems that can reason, plan, and act within real-world medical workflows. You’ll be joining a forward-thinking engineering team that is scaling rapidly, with a strong focus on responsible AI, performance, and real-world application. What ...

Software Engineer - Backend

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£85,000
design and delivery of next-generation digital solutions. This is an opportunity to shape greenfield projects from the ground up - architecting scalable, data-driven systems that empower venues to deliver seamless guest experiences and drive long-term innovation. What will I be doing? Lead the technical vision and architectural … direction across complex backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Partner closely with engineering leadership to define best practices, coding standards, and long-term technical strategy. Design, develop, and oversee the delivery of robust, production-grade software built using Python, Django, Cloud Firestore, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch. Mentor and guide ...

Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Java,React,LLMs)

Hiring Organisation
RE Partners
Location
England, United Kingdom
side architecture Solid React experience on the frontend Hands-on experience with LLMs/AI tools and practical implementation Experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and performance optimization Proven ability to lead technically and mentor others Nice to have: Experience with GraphDB … Scala, or complex data processing systems Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices Why join us? At RE Partners, we partner with industry leaders to deliver high-impact technology solutions. We’re not a traditional staffing agency - we operate ...

AI Platform Engineer (DevOps / MLOps Focus)

Hiring Organisation
The Portfolio Group
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80000/annum
intersection of DevOps, cloud infrastructure and applied AI owning the full lifecycle of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM-powered systems across modern cloud architecture. This role is about engineering, not research. You will architect and run the infrastructure that enables AI to perform securely, reliably and at scale … shaping a reusable AI platform capable of supporting multiple products. What You'll Be Doing Design and optimise scalable RAG pipelines and vector search systems Orchestrate multi-model AI services with a focus on latency, resilience and performance Productionise GenAI workflows and ensure they operate reliably under real usage ...

Senior Data engineer

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£65,000 - £80,000 per annum
performance, security, governance and cost optimisation Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the team Champion modern architectural patterns including event-driven, streaming and distributed systems Key Experience Strong expertise in distributed data architectures (lambda/kappa) Expert-level data modelling (star/snowflake schemas, SCD Types ...

Internet of Things Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Cubiq Recruitment
Location
Melksham, England, United Kingdom
Developer | £55,000 – £60,000 | Wiltshire We’re looking for a Full Stack IoT Developer to help build connected digital services that link industrial systems with cloud analytics. This role focuses on turning real-world device data into usable insights for operations, maintenance, and performance improvement. You’ll work … across IoT devices, cloud platforms, and software systems, building scalable data pipelines and applications. What you’ll do Build and maintain IoT data pipelines from edge devices to cloud systems Work with industrial protocols such as CAN, Modbus, and Ethernet Develop Python-based tools for data ingestion, automation ...

Golang Engineers

Hiring Organisation
Infoplus Technologies UK Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
Golang (PHP experience is a bonus) Proven experience designing and operating microservices architectures, ideally in production fintech or payments environments Solid understanding of concurrent, distributed systems and high throughput transaction processing Experience with event driven architectures and messaging systems (eg Kafka, RabbitMQ) Strong experience working with relational ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
hands-on) , leading a small backend pod while remaining closely involved in development. You’ll be responsible for building and evolving core backend systems that support investment workflows, financial data processing and trading-related operations. What You’ll Be Working On Building scalable backend services in Python Designing systems … workflows Leading architecture and technical design for new features Running a small engineering pod and guiding delivery Improving reliability, performance and resilience of core systems Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards across the team What We're Looking for Extensive experience with commercial Python backend development Experience building production ...

Energy Trading - Principal Software Engineer London

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
with senior engineering stakeholders in fast‐paced trading environments, influencing architecture, operating models, and data strategy. Key Responsibilities: Technical Leadership Architect and deploy complex, distributed systems, with high performance data architectures, real time streaming, APIs, etc and drive technical decision‐making across complex, multi‐system trading environments Lead … time and intraday solutions pipelines supporting trading operations across multiple asset classes Architect solutions which are able to integrate market data feeds, position management systems, market fundamentals, P&L Risk and Back Office solutions. Establish software engineering best practices and coding standards for trading applications, upskilling more junior members ...

Software Engineer (AVP & VP)

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£60,000 - £95,000 per annum
Hybrid) £65,000 - £95,000 We're hiring multiple Software Engineers (AVP & VP level) to join a growing technology team delivering scalable, high-performance systems within a global financial services environment. What you'll be doing Designing and developing high-quality, scalable software solutions. Working across the full SDLC … continuous improvement. What we're looking for 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. ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Franklin Bates
Location
Bristol, Avon, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
growth. Working closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams, you will: Lead design and architectural decisions across key product areas Build and scale distributed systems handling high-volume data workloads Support the evolution of a SaaS platform serving global enterprise customers Influence engineering standards, tooling, and best … with deep technical expertise and a track record of operating at scale: Strong background in software engineering and system design Experience building and scaling distributed, data-intensive platforms Proven ability to design robust, scalable SaaS architectures Deep understanding of modern engineering principles and best practices Experience working in cloud ...

Senior Software Engineer - Geospatial Data (Contract)

Hiring Organisation
Talent Locker
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
would be highly beneficial. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable software applications and services Work with large-scale geospatial and spatial datasets within distributed systems and processing pipelines Develop and optimise solutions using technologies such as PostGIS, ArcGIS, and related geospatial tooling Build and maintain APIs, backend … with geospatial data, spatial databases, or mapping platforms Strong backend development experience using languages such as Python, Java, C++, or similar Experience developing scalable systems, APIs, and data services Knowledge of geospatial technologies such as PostGIS, ArcGIS, GDAL, GeoServer, or similar Experience working with cloud platforms and modern software ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Eurobase
Location
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
.NET Back End development Proven experience designing and building RESTful APIs Strong understanding of API architecture, design patterns, security, and auditing Experience modernising Legacy systems Strong SQL Server/database experience Experience working with distributed systems or service-oriented architectures Strong communication and problem-solving skills Experience ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Formula
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
critical engineering pillar. Key responsibilities as a Principal Engineer: Defining and driving the architectural vision for a large-scale API ecosystem Designing cloud-native distributed systems at scale Building high-throughput event-driven services Leading on security, observability, performance, and maintainability Championing TDD, CI/CD, Infrastructure ...