26 to 50 of 1,112 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Engineering Tech Lead Node.js Architect

Hiring Organisation
Purview Consultancy Services Ltd
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
complex technical challenges. This role requires a hands-on lead er who can drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and architect distributed systems capable of handling enterprise-scale workloads. Key Responsibilities Lead the architecture, design, and development of mission-critical backend applications using Node.js. Design … scalable, secure, and highly available distributed systems and microservices. Drive technical decision-making and define engineering standards across projects. Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, DevOps, QA, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions. Review code, enforce best practices, and ensure maintainability and performance of applications. Mentor ...

Lead Developer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
mentoring developers and helping define engineering standards across multiple cloud-native products. If you're passionate about modern software engineering and enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, this is the type of role that doesn't come around often. The Opportunity You'll work within … available, cloud-native SaaS applications used at significant scale. Working alongside Architects, Product Managers, Platform Engineers and Quality Engineers, you'll help deliver resilient distributed systems built around microservices, event-driven architecture and modern engineering practices. This is not a people-management role disguised as leadership. ...

Senior Software Engineer – Price Domain

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
capabilities. Design and evolve GraphQL APIs ensuring consistency, performance, governance, and exceptional developer experience. Build resilient, low-latency solutions using MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, and distributed data architectures. Own complex backend features across the pricing and promotions lifecycle from design through deployment and operational support. Requirements Strong backend engineer with … Java and/or Kotlin and modern microservice architectures. Passionate about building reusable backend capabilities that enable multiple teams and products. Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging patterns. Designed API-first platforms with GraphQL and REST-based services. Comfortable working with high-volume ...

Staff Cloud SRE - AI/ML Platform & GPU Compute

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
role This is a rare opportunity to be a founding Staff SRE shaping the reliability of large-scale AI systems and GPU compute infrastructure from the ground up. As a Staff Cloud Site Reliability Engineer at Wayve, you will build and scale the reliability foundations of our AI cloud … model development from raw data to on‐road experimentation) and our GPU Compute platform (large-scale, multi-tenant GPU fleets and scheduling systems driving model training and inference at scale). This is a founding Cloud SRE role. You won’t inherit a mature SRE function, you’ll help ...

Software Engineer, Menu Systems (Remote - NI)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Software Engineer on the 'Menu' team, which is part of the wider 'Order' engineering group. The Menu team owns and operates all of the systems involved with managing, publishing and accessing billions of menu records. Menus change in real time and their accuracy is essential for the proper operation … Assist in the deployment and monitoring of services, learning how to manage and troubleshoot issues in production environments. Contribute to building and maintaining reliable distributed systems, implementing resilience mechanisms as appropriate. Participate actively in team ceremonies and demonstrate initiative by taking ownership of tasks and helping to unblock ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
South West London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £120,000 per annum
Senior Python Software Engineer Up to £120,000 London | Python | Java | Cloud | Real-Time Distributed Systems | Bonus & Excellent Benefits Are you an experienced backend engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges in high-performance, real-time environments? We're partnering with an innovative technology business that's investing … team developing highly available, cloud-native platforms that process large volumes of real-time data. This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging systems where performance, scalability and reliability are critical. You'll have the chance to influence architecture, contribute to technical decision-making and work alongside talented ...

C# backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Senior Back End Engineer C#/Java | Front Office Trading | AWS | Distributed Systems Location: London Hybrid: 3 days in the office We're partnering with one of the world's leading financial markets technology firms as they continue investing heavily in their electronic trading platforms. This … opportunity to work directly with traders, architects and principal engineers building business critical trading systems that process high volumes of transactions in real time. Although the team primarily develops in C#, they are very open to experienced Java backend engineers looking to transition into .NET. What ...

Staff ML Infrastructure Engineer August 4, 2026

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
enable and operate the core platform that powers Chemify’s machine learning and scientific AI computing workloads. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, machine learning infrastructure, scientific computing, and platform engineering. You will build and operate the operational backbone of the ML platform, ensuring … that pipelines run reliably across Kubernetes clusters, on‐premise GPU infrastructure, and serverless compute environments. The systems you build will support ML engineers and computational chemists running workloads from large‐scale model training to molecular simulation. If you enjoy building complex technical systems at the intersection ...

Founding Engineering Leader (CTO / VP Engineering)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
build the engineering organisation from the ground up. What you'll own Define the long-term technology strategy Architect highly scalable AI-native systems Build reliable multi-agent and autonomous AI platforms Lead decisions across LLM infrastructure, distributed systems and developer platforms Recruit and mentor a world … founders on product and company strategy We're interested in CTOs who have built products involving: AI Agents LLM platforms Generative AI Autonomous workflows Distributed systems Cloud-native platforms Large-scale backend architecture Event-driven systems Developer platforms Production AI infrastructure Experience with technologies such as OpenAI ...

Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
infrastructure that enables organizations to manage complex data flows with exceptional speed, scalability, and reliability. Their platform focuses on solving challenging engineering problems around distributed systems, data movement, and high-throughput processing using modern cloud technologies. With a strong engineering culture centred around innovation, ownership, and technical excellence … this is an opportunity to join a growing team building foundational technology from the ground up. Engineers have the opportunity to work on systems that operate at significant scale while contributing directly to the architecture and evolution of the platform. The Role They are looking for a talented Java ...

Rust Distributed Systems Engineer – London (Hybrid)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hunter Bond is seeking a Rust Distributed Systems Software Engineer in London. This elite company is known for its exceptional tech standards and talented individuals who are passionate about using cutting-edge technology. The role involves designing scalable, production-grade distributed systems and working on functional ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
OB Collective
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer – Scala, Distributed Systems Location: UK, remote-first with occasional onsite. UK-based, UK data handling only. Engagement: Contract, outside IR35. Rate: circa £700/day depending on experience. Clearance: Current, portable NPPV3 is essential (SC alongside is a strong plus). We can only consider … small delivery team, stay close to the code, and work directly with operational users and partner engineers to ground the build in how systems are actually used. What you'll do Own the technical design and delivery of a data-pipeline/provenance engagement Build ingestion, transformation and lineage ...

AI System Researcher

Hiring Organisation
Microtech Global Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
seeking Systems Research Engineers with a strong interest in computer systems, distributed AI infrastructure, and performance optimization. These roles are ideal for recent PhD graduates or exceptional BSc/MSc engineers looking to build research-driven engineering experience in areas such as operating systems, distributed systems, AI model serving, and machine learning infrastructure click apply for full job details ...

AI System Researcher

Hiring Organisation
17918
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
seeking Systems Research Engineers with a strong interest in computer systems, distributed AI infrastructure, and performance optimization. These roles are ideal for recent PhD graduates or exceptional BSc/MSc engineers looking to build research-driven engineering experience in areas such as operating systems, distributed systems, AI model serving, and machine learning infrastructure. You w... WKCL1_UKTJ ...

Senior Python Engineer - Data Platform

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
data sources. Our stack combines Java and Python, with foundations of Kafka, ArcticDB, MongoDB, and more. This is an opportunity to tackle complex distributed systems challenges at exceptional scale. You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across … team. Role Responsibilities Build and ship features on a high‐throughput streaming platform processing billions of market data points daily Tackle hard distributed systems problems at ascalefewengineersencounter Work closely with quant researchers and traders to turn complex requirements into elegant platform solutions Drive platform reliability through rigorous incident ...

Principal Distributed Systems Engineer - Elasticsearch

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
United Kingdom
Software Careers is hiring for a Principal Software Engineer I specializing in Elasticsearch and distributed systems in the United Kingdom. This role involves optimizing components for concurrent indexing and maintaining cluster performance for data safety. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in distributed systems ...

Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
clusters. Responsibilities Design, deploy, and maintain scalable Kubernetes clusters for AI model inference and training workloads Manage and optimize Slurm-based HPC environments for distributed training of large language models Develop robust APIs and orchestration systems for both training pipelines and inference services Implement resource scheduling … management systems across heterogeneous compute environments Benchmark system performance, diagnose bottlenecks, and implement improvements across both training and inference infrastructure Build monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions tailored to ML workloads running on Kubernetes and Slurm Respond swiftly to system outages and collaborate across teams to maintain high uptime ...

Senior Elixir Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

Hiring Organisation
17918
Location
United Kingdom
Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector … leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners. We are now entering a new and strategically significant phase ...

Senior Elixir Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

Hiring Organisation
SRT Marine Systems plc
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector … leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners. We are now entering a new and strategically significant phase ...

Senior Elixir Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

Hiring Organisation
SRT Marine Systems plc
Location
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base. The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector … leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies "MDA", products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners. We are now entering a new and strategically significant phase ...

Risk Systems Developer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
seeking someone to join our team as a Risk Systems Developer to work as part of the Structured Rates desk-facing squad with a focus on delivering and supporting technology solutions that enable traders to execute trades, manage risk and support highly detailed structured rates activities. In the Technology … solutions Contribute across the full software development lifecycle as a Senior Java developer, designing and building functionality for both new and existing risk management systems Gather and evaluate business and technical requirements, while evaluating current systems and functionalities to drive continuous improvement Ensure high-quality delivery through unit ...

Engineering Director, Security

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
protects our global footprint. We’re looking for a deeply technical software engineering leader who has built and led high performing infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems engineering organisations and can apply those skills to one of Monzo’s most important engineering challenges: making security an embedded, invisible property … traditional Head of Security or CISO-style role, and we are intentionally looking beyond career security specialists. Strong candidates may come from software engineering, distributed systems, developer platforms, infrastructure engineering, or large-scale backend product engineering backgrounds. You do not need to have spent your career in security. ...

Staff Engineer - Content Intelligence Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
expressive, and unmistakably Spotify. The Content Intelligence Product Area is a core part of Spotify’s Content Platform within the Experience mission. We build systems that create deep, machine-readable understanding of content across audio, video, text, and images before it reaches users. This enables automation, safety, and entirely … product experiences. Our work powers content enrichment, quality analysis, annotation platforms, and scalable intelligence systems that allow teams across Spotify to build without needing direct content understanding expertise. We’re now looking for a Staff Engineer to help build and scale foundational infrastructure powering content understanding across Spotify. This ...

Permanent position: Senior Python Backend Engineer (AI Systems)

Hiring Organisation
Nicoll Curtin Technology
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
Senior Backend Engineer (AI Systems) Remote (United Kingdom) | Permanent | Flexible compensation (DOE), performance bonus + equity We're working with a well-funded, AI-first technology business building systems that go beyond traditional chatbot experiences and execute real-world tasks autonomously. The team is focused on creating … product systems that can reliably complete meaningful work for users, handling long-running workflows, maintaining context over time, interacting with external tools, and operating consistently in production environments. This is not a pure model development role. The challenge is turning model capability into reliable product behaviour, ensuring AI systems ...

Java Software Developer - Trading Systems (Remote) Amsterdam or London

Hiring Organisation
Appcast
Location
London, UK
Java Software Developer – Trading Systems (Remote) Amsterdam or LondonQuant Capital is partnered with a leading technology-driven trading firm looking to hire an experienced Java Software Developer. This is a hands-on engineering role building the core software platform used across research, trading systems and operations.The role suits … strong software engineer who enjoys solving hard technical problems, understands distributed systems, and writes clean, reliable Java. You will work close to research and infrastructure teams, improving performance, extending platform capability and supporting new markets, products and functionality.What you will be doing • Build and improve Java-based systems ...