26 to 50 of 344 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

SVP- Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Trading (Java/Angular/AI)

Hiring Organisation
Robert Walters
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 - £140,000 per annum
environment is highly regulated and production-critical, requiring strong engineering standards and end-to-end ownership. Key responsibilities include: Designing and building scalable, distributed systems using modern architectural patterns Owning the full software development lifecycle from requirements through to production and support Developing and maintaining microservices and APIs … Ensuring systems are reliable, observable, and secure Driving engineering best practices across testing, automation, and performance Working closely with product and engineering stakeholders to deliver robust solutions Technology Environment Java and Spring Boot (low-latency) Distributed systems and microservices architecture AI Skills mandatory Angular or TypeScript (full ...

Contract Software Engineer (Observability & Telemetry)

Hiring Organisation
Xpertise
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
Contract | Inside IR35 | Hybrid London We're working with a global Real Time data platform operating in ultra-low latency, high-throughput environments across distributed systems. This role sits in a specialist engineering team building Kernel-level observability and telemetry infrastructure used to monitor and understand system behaviour … Real Time. What you'll be doing Build Kernel-level observability and instrumentation systems for distributed Real Time infrastructure Develop telemetry pipelines using eBPF-based tooling (metrics, logs, traces at Kernel level) Design and implement system-wide visibility across latency-critical services Work with hotspot detection, performance profiling ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Cititec
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
time trading operations, analytics, and decision-making. The role sits at the heart of large-scale transformation programmes focused on modern cloud-native engineering, distributed systems, streaming technologies, and advanced data platforms. Key areas include: Real-time and event-driven systems Distributed data and software platforms … engaging senior stakeholders, and driving delivery across complex programmes. Ideal background: Strong software engineering experience with Python and modern cloud technologies Experience building scalable distributed systems and data platforms Strong understanding of streaming/event-driven architectures Previous exposure to Energy, Commodities, or Capital Markets environments Ability ...

Kubernetes Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Arcus Search
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
components of a Kubernetes-based platform Developing tooling and services to support large-scale, multi-tenant environments Working on scheduling, orchestration, and performance of distributed systems Contributing to platform reliability, scalability, and efficiency Collaborating closely with infrastructure and platform teams Writing production-quality code and improving engineering standards … Scale/environment High-throughput distributed systems processing millions of workloads daily Infrastructure spanning large compute clusters and GPU workloads Highly automated environment with continuous deployment and change Performance-sensitive systems with real scale challenges What they’re looking for Strong software engineering background Experience with Kubernetes ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Whitespace
Location
Belfast Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom
delivering a range of cutting-edge applied AI products to mission-critical environments, applying the latest thinking in knowledge graphs, hybrid multi-agent systems, distributed systems, and more. You will set a clear pace, lead with high quality and security standards, and create the conditions where great … leading by example. Codify engineering standards - both ‘functional’ and ‘non-functional’ - through automated tests, to enable us to ship fast without breaking things. Build systems and practices that support both human engineers and AI agents delivering at scale into production environments.• Establish engineering foundations that make it faster ...

Low Latency Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
looking for a high-calibre Solution Engineer with a passion for performance and capital markets technology to deliver complex, front-office trading systems for leading global investment banks, asset managers, fintechs and exchanges. This role sits at the intersection of engineering excellence, client engagement, and strategic delivery — working hands … latency trading solutions in capital markets environments Contributing directly to the codebase on the most technically challenging aspects of client deliveries Architecting performant, resilient distributed systems informed by deep domain knowledge Building solutions across OMS, EMS, Smart Order Routing, Matching Engines, FIX gateways and Risk platforms Working with ...

Platform Storage Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter
Location
East London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£160,000 - £190,000 per annum
quantitative investment firm as it continues a major expansion of its infrastructure and research platform. With substantial investment being made into compute, storage and distributed systems engineering, this is an opportunity to join a team building the next generation of high-performance data infrastructure that underpins global research … This role sits within the Platform Storage team, responsible for architecting and evolving the storage ecosystem powering large-scale quant workloads. The environment combines systems engineering, distributed backend development and high-performance infrastructure, with engineers working across on-prem and cloud platforms to solve complex data challenges ...

Staff Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£120,000 - £135,000 per annum
continuous improvement and innovation, the organisation is investing in its engineering and data functions as it scales, offering opportunities to work on complex systems in a collaborative, forward-thinking setting. Your new role As a Staff Engineer, you will act as a technical leader within a high-performing engineering … team, driving architectural decisions and ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of a modern, distributed platform.Key responsibilities include: Designing and evolving highly scalable, distributed backend systems Setting standards for engineering excellence, observability, and operational best practices Collaborating closely with Product, UX, and Engineering teams to deliver impactful ...

Principal Software Engineer - C++ Robotics System

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
London (Hybrid) Define how a complex, real‐world system scales — technically and organisationally. At sees.ai, we’ve built a system that enables unmanned aerial systems to carry out inspections of critical national infrastructure, making these missions repeatable, scalable, and commercially viable for asset owners. This is not a prototype … stack, while staying close enough to the system to ensure decisions hold up in the real world. You’ll work across: Flight and mission systems Operator interfaces and 3D environments Connectivity and distributed systems Simulation, testing, and data pipelines Your primary impact will be in: Defining architecture ...

Lead Architect

Hiring Organisation
Accelerant
Location
United Kingdom
clearly communicated, understood, and consistently applied Design and Innovation Define and maintain architectural patterns across backend services, APIs, data platforms, and front end systems Design scalable, resilient systems for analytics, workflow orchestration, and intelligence features Guide decomposition of legacy systems into well defined services and domains Evaluate … technologies and data stores, favoring open standards and long term maintainability Architect distributed systems with focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability Standards & Governance Establish API design standards ensuring consistency, discoverability, and ease of integration Define front end standards prioritizing web platform capabilities, progressive enhancement, and accessibility (WCAG ...

Software Engineer (Junior–Senior) | £35,000–£80,000+ | North East| Defence Sector

Hiring Organisation
IT Graduate Recruitment
Location
North East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£35,000 per annum
Join a high-performing engineering team delivering mission-critical solutions within the defence and national security space. You’ll work on complex, high-stakes systems where reliability, performance, and security are paramount — contributing to technology that truly matters. This opportunity is open to engineers across Junior, Mid, and Senior … chance to work alongside experienced engineers, data scientists, and domain experts. What You’ll Do Design, develop, and maintain secure, high-performance software systems Write clean, scalable code in languages such as Python, C++, Java, or JavaScript Contribute to system architecture and technical decision-making (level dependent) Collaborate with ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
United Kingdom
Looking to build ultra-high-performance systems used by millions, while working fully remote in one of the most exciting spaces in tech? Software Engineer (C++) – Leading Crypto Trading Platform 🚀🪙 Salary: up to £160k + bonus + RSUs Location: Fully Remote in UK & Ireland We’re partnered with … Engineers to join their Trading Technology team. This is a unique opportunity to work on the core of a world-class trading platform, developing systems that demand extreme performance, reliability, and scalability in a low-latency, high-throughput environment. What you’ll be working on: Designing and building components ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£130,000 - £160,000 per annum
Looking to build ultra-high-performance systems used by millions, while working fully remote in one of the most exciting spaces in tech? Software Engineer (C++) - Leading Crypto Trading Platform Salary: up to £160k + bonus + RSUs Location: Fully Remote in UK & Ireland We're partnered with … Engineers to join their Trading Technology team. This is a unique opportunity to work on the core of a world-class trading platform, developing systems that demand extreme performance, reliability, and scalability in a low-latency, high-throughput environment. What you'll be working on: Designing and building components ...

Software Engineer (Junior, Mid & Senior) – Systematic Trading/Elite Hedge Fund) - £80-150k plus bonus

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
complex, high-impact problems at scale. The Opportunity You will work at the intersection of advanced engineering and quantitative finance, building highly performant, scalable systems that directly power trading strategies and research workflows. This is a front-office role with immediate impact on PnL, collaborating closely with world-class … quants, researchers, and technologists. Key Responsibilities Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput trading systems and research infrastructure Work closely with quantitative researchers to translate models into production-grade systems Optimise performance across distributed systems handling large-scale financial data Contribute to architectural decisions ...

Staff DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Humanoid
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
integrate into daily life and amplify human capacity. We are building large-scale compute infrastructure to train next-generation robotics models, including transformer-based systems like VLA. As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the design and evolution of our multi-GPU, cross-cloud platforms, driving architecture, reliability … performance at scale. This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, MLOps, and distributed systems, enabling cutting-edge AI in real-world environments. What You’ll Do: Lead the design and evolution of scalable multi-GPU infrastructure across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc.) Own architecture and long-term ...

Engineering Manager - Backend

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
engineers and Legacy systems. You'll play a key role in evolving the platform architecture, modernising Legacy applications, and driving the migration toward scalable distributed systems. Alongside technical ownership, you'll help shape engineering strategy, mentor engineers, and create an environment focused on delivery excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement. … team of engineers across modern and Legacy technology stacks Own the ongoing evolution of Legacy and modern platforms Drive migration from monolithic Legacy systems to scalable distributed architectures Contribute hands-on to Back End engineering, infrastructure, and platform development Define and execute engineering strategy, roadmap planning, and technical ...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Realm
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
functional collaboration, and full lifecycle responsibility. Role Overview: Position operating across software, infrastructure, and operations to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of a globally distributed compute platform. Close collaboration with networking, platform engineering, and physical infrastructure teams to design and operate systems supporting high-demand computational workloads. Hands … engineering role requiring strong systems expertise, with responsibility for resolving complex production issues, improving system resilience, and enhancing platform observability. Responsibilities Deployment and management of large-scale compute clusters using automation tooling, with adaptation to customer requirements Validation and optimisation of compute, storage, and networking systems in coordination ...

Payments Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fynity
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
senior/lead hands-on Engineer who thrives in Payments environments? Do you have a background in building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems where correctness, resilience, and performance really matter? This is a great opportunity to work with some of the worlds leading Banks on their real … Doing You’ll work directly with some of the worlds leading banks in their high-performing engineering teams, building asynchronous, message-driven systems designed for scale, resilience, and near-zero downtime. Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency systems processing millions of real-time payment events Build event ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer (C++) 📍 Remote (UK/Europe) 🏦 High-Performance Trading Systems 💰 Up to £180k + bonus + equity We’re hiring a Senior C++ Engineer to work on the systems that sit at the heart of a global trading platform. This is a backend, systems-focused … working on the core framework and performance-critical components that underpin the trading engine. Your responsibilities will include: Designing and building low-level systems that support high-frequency transaction processing Developing robust, reusable components used across the trading platform Engineering for low latency, high throughput, and system resilience Working ...

Backend Node.JS Developer - London - PropTech AI StartUp

Hiring Organisation
Transparent Technology
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
backend architecture, APIs, and microservices that power an AI assistant operating in real-time production environments. You'll design and build scalable systems using Node.js and TypeScript, working across REST APIs, event-driven architecture, data pipelines, and distributed systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability as the platform … building and maintaining scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations, designing microservices and event-driven architectures, implementing CI/CD, observability, and monitoring, and ensuring systems are secure, reliable, and performant. You'll also play a key role in technical strategy, code quality, and engineering standards, helping shape the future ...

Telemetry and Observability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£475 - £515 per day
highly skilled Telemetry & Observability Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise engineering environment focused on improving system reliability, visibility, and operational intelligence across complex distributed platforms. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who can go beyond using observability tools and instead design, build, and automate observability … telemetry solutions from the ground up. You will be responsible for building and evolving telemetry pipelines and observability infrastructure across a distributed, cloud-native environment. Working closely with network, platform, and software engineering teams, you will help embed observability into engineering workflows and CI/CD processes. Key Responsibilities ...

Telemetry and Observability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
highly skilled Telemetry & Observability Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise engineering environment focused on improving system reliability, visibility, and operational intelligence across complex distributed platforms. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who can go beyond using observability tools and instead design, build, and automate observability … telemetry solutions from the ground up. You will be responsible for building and evolving telemetry pipelines and observability infrastructure across a distributed, cloud-native environment. Working closely with network, platform, and software engineering teams, you will help embed observability into engineering workflows and CI/CD processes. Key Responsibilities ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£90,000
have the opportunity to: Lead architecture across large-scale, high-impact data programmes Define data strategies covering migration, integration, and modelling Shape distributed data solutions across cloud and hybrid environments Influence architectural standards and engineering best practice Work across both public sector and enterprise clients Mentor engineers and contribute … growing technical capability Your Responsibilities Define architecture across complex, data-driven programmes Establish data strategy, integration, and migration approaches Analyse existing systems and map target-state architecture Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and governance Design scalable solutions for distributed and large-scale data systems Develop enterprise ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£90,000
have the opportunity to: Lead architecture across large-scale, high-impact data programmes Define data strategies covering migration, integration, and modelling Shape distributed data solutions across cloud and hybrid environments Influence architectural standards and engineering best practice Work across both public sector and enterprise clients Mentor engineers and contribute … growing technical capability Your Responsibilities Define architecture across complex, data-driven programmes Establish data strategy, integration, and migration approaches Analyse existing systems and map target-state architecture Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and governance Design scalable solutions for distributed and large-scale data systems Develop enterprise ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£90,000
have the opportunity to: Lead architecture across large-scale, high-impact data programmes Define data strategies covering migration, integration, and modelling Shape distributed data solutions across cloud and hybrid environments Influence architectural standards and engineering best practice Work across both public sector and enterprise clients Mentor engineers and contribute … growing technical capability Your Responsibilities Define architecture across complex, data-driven programmes Establish data strategy, integration, and migration approaches Analyse existing systems and map target-state architecture Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and governance Design scalable solutions for distributed and large-scale data systems Develop enterprise ...