51 to 75 of 344 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Principal Rust Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter
Location
East London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£160,000 - £180,000 per annum
firm in hiring a Rust Developer to join a highly influential Product team. This group sits at the core of the business, building the distributed platforms, internal services, and compute frameworks that underpin trading, quant research, and large-scale data processing across the organisation. This is a deeply technical … engineering role focused on high-performance systems, scalability, and platform reliability. You’ll work on foundational technology used by multiple engineering and investment teams, helping to shape the infrastructure powering a world-class trading environment. What you’ll do: • Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed systems ...

Principal Software Engineer - C++ Robotics System

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom | Posted on 21/04/2026 About the Company 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 … entire software stack while staying close enough to the system to ensure decisions hold up in the real world. Work across flight and mission systems, operator interfaces and 3D environments, connectivity and distributed systems, and simulation, testing, and data pipelines. Define architecture and technical strategy, drive engineering ...

Lead SRE

Hiring Organisation
Pulse Recruit
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
hands-on role, but with added ownership around shaping strategy, influencing architecture and mentoring engineers. You will be solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems, while helping define how reliability is embedded across the wider platform as it continues to scale. Key Responsibilities Leading the design and evolution … monitoring and observability systems Defining and driving SLOs, SLIs and error budgets across teams Owning incident management processes, post-mortems and continuous improvement Partnering with engineering teams to design resilient, fault-tolerant systems Driving automation across infrastructure, deployments and operational workflows Contributing to capacity planning, performance optimisation ...

HFT Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
United Kingdom
optimising real-time trading systems. This is a hands-on C++ role focused on: Real-time market data processing High-throughput, low-latency systems Trading infrastructure and execution pipelines Performance optimisation across distributed systems What You’ll Do Design and build high-performance C++ systems Optimise … decisions What You’ll Need Strong C++ experience (modern C++ preferred) Low-latency or HFT exposure Experience working on performance-critical or real-time systems Strong understanding of: Concurrency/multithreading Memory management Data structures and algorithms Linux environment experience Strong problem-solving ability Nice to Have Trading/ ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
djr
Location
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Engineering environment focused on building scalable, cloud-native applications that process high-volume transactional activity in real time. The engineering challenges here are genuine: distributed systems event-driven architecture scalability cloud-native development observability modern CI/CD performance engineering This is not a slow-moving corporate environment … Agile teams. Strong experience across the following is highly desirable: Modern C#/.NET engineering Cloud-native application development React or modern frontend frameworks Distributed systems & API design CI/CD and engineering automation Performance optimisation & scalability Mentoring and technical leadership Collaborative product engineering environments Most importantly, they ...

AI Product Engineer (Full Stack / AI Systems)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
Product Engineer (Full Stack/AI Systems) We are building a new generation of AI-powered products and are looking for a hands-on AI Product Engineer to help design, build, and scale intelligent systems in production. This is not a pure research or infrastructure role. … APIs using modern cloud infrastructure C#, .NET Experience Develop responsive frontend applications and translate product designs into working interfaces Work with event-driven and distributed systems where required Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to deliver customer-facing AI features Contribute to system design decisions including ...

Senior Platform Architect - AWS / TypeScript

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Opportunity This role sits at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and business strategy . You'll take ownership of architectural direction across a globally distributed engineering function , working closely with senior stakeholders to shape how the platform evolves - both technically and commercially. This isn't governance from a distance … stack. What You'll Be Doing Define and own the platform architecture strategy across multiple teams and regions Drive the transition from legacy systems to cloud-native architecture Ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and built for long-term growth Partner closely with engineers to embed modern development practices ...

Core Engineer (C++)

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
looking to work on problems that genuinely test the limits of performance, scale, and engineering craft? We are building a small, elite team of systems engineers to design and evolve the core infrastructure that powers a highly sophisticated trading platform. This is not application level development. This is deep … work on performance critical systems where nanoseconds matter, correctness is non negotiable, and your decisions directly impact real world outcomes. You will be working on the foundations of the trading stack, including market data, execution, simulation, and internal infrastructure. The problems are hard, the standards are high ...

Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Halian Technology Limited
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 per day
Java Engineer Contract Location: Hybrid (1 day per week in Farnborough, UK) Contract Duration: Initial 912 months Rate: £500 Why this role? Complex Systems: Work on large-scale, high-throughput platforms Modern Stack: Cloud-native architecture using AWS and containers Impactful Domain: Build and evolve payment-centric systems … delivering high-scale, mission-critical platforms within the payments and data space. This role suits an experienced Java Engineer who is comfortable working in distributed systems, cloud environments, and data-heavy architectures. Youll be joining a team solving real scalability and reliability challenges, with autonomy and ownership from ...

Senior Software Engineer (Python / AWS)

Hiring Organisation
Gleeson Recruitment Group
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£85000/annum
shape and scale a critical cloud platform. This is a hands-on role for an experienced backend engineer who thrives on building high-quality distributed systems, owning services end-to-end, and delivering production-ready software at scale. You'll take ownership of microservices across the full software … evolution of a modern event-driven architecture. Key Responsibilities Design, build and own cloud-native microservices and APIs Develop and maintain integrations with internal systems and third-party platforms Take ownership of services in production, including monitoring, troubleshooting and optimisation Build resilient, observable and scalable systems Contribute ...

Senior Software Engineer (Java/Python)

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
What you'll be doing Designing, developing, and maintaining secure, scalable backend applications using Java and Python. Building and optimising cloud-native services and distributed systems within AWS environments. Developing intelligent search and AI-driven workflows, including semantic search and large language model integrations. Collaborating with engineers, product … technical solutions. Contributing to architectural decisions, engineering standards, and best practices across the software development lifecycle. Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical challenges across multiple systems and technologies. Mentoring engineers and promoting a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture. Evaluating and introducing emerging technologies where they can add measurable business value. What ...

Senior Software Engineer (Java/Python)

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
What you'll be doing Designing, developing, and maintaining secure, scalable backend applications using Java and Python. Building and optimising cloud-native services and distributed systems within AWS environments. Developing intelligent search and AI-driven workflows, including semantic search and large language model integrations. Collaborating with engineers, product … technical solutions. Contributing to architectural decisions, engineering standards, and best practices across the software development lifecycle. Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical challenges across multiple systems and technologies. Mentoring engineers and promoting a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture. Evaluating and introducing emerging technologies where they can add measurable business value. What ...

Kubernetes Linux AIOps Engineer – Elite Quant Hedge Fund

Hiring Organisation
Winston Fox
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Fund to further aide further business growth. Our client is one of the World's Elite Quant Hedge Fund Managers with large-scale, massively Distributed Systems, and ample opportunity for Engineering-at-Scale on huge, big ticket projects in an environment boasting nearly 100,000 Kubernetes cores. They … platform that can handle the huge volumes of data and load of our diverse technology estate. Accelerate the migration strategy to more cloud-native, distributed applications. Enhance and simplify the on-prem stack and its integrations with the hybrid Kubernetes setup. Create, implement, and evangelize the "Infrastructure as Code ...

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SBS
Location
United Kingdom
offerings. The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with applied AI/ML expertise, enabling the development of scalable, production-grade AI systems in a regulated financial services environment. Location: UK or EU Hybrid/Remote: Remote (Occasional travel required) Responsibilities: AI Solution Development Design, build … Data Engineering Collaboration Partner with data engineers to ensure data quality, availability, and pipeline integrity Work with structured and unstructured datasets across large-scale, distributed systems Innovation & Continuous Improvement Stay current with advancements in AI, GenAI, and emerging technologies Contribute to experimentation, prototyping, and innovation initiatives Identify opportunities ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£65,000
building robust, scalable data pipelines that underpin analytics and AI solutions. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with real-time data, distributed systems, and modern cloud architectures . What youll be doing Design and build scalable data pipelines (batch & streaming) Work with technologies like Kafka … datasets What were looking for Strong programming skills in Java (preferred) or Python Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka/Flink/Spark) Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale data processing Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) Familiarity with DevOps tools and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) The offer ...

Principal Engineer (Java) - up to £100,000 + Bonus - Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Involved Solutions
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 75,000 - 100,000 Annual
used by millions of customers. This role will focus on driving engineering excellence, defining technical standards and leading the design of scalable, high-availability systems across a modern cloud-native environment. Responsibilities for the Principal Java Engineer: Define and evolve engineering strategy, standards and best practices across your domain … Lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams and programmes Design and oversee delivery of large-scale, distributed systems using modern technologies Provide expert guidance on technical risk, architecture decisions and prioritisation Support Staff Engineers and development teams with deep technical leadership Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/ ...

Principal Engineer (Java) - up to £100,000 + Bonus - Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Involved Solutions
Location
West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 75,000 - 100,000 Annual
used by millions of customers. This role will focus on driving engineering excellence, defining technical standards and leading the design of scalable, high-availability systems across a modern cloud-native environment. Responsibilities for the Principal Java Engineer: Define and evolve engineering strategy, standards and best practices across your domain … Lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams and programmes Design and oversee delivery of large-scale, distributed systems using modern technologies Provide expert guidance on technical risk, architecture decisions and prioritisation Support Staff Engineers and development teams with deep technical leadership Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/ ...

Principal Engineer (Java) - up to £100,000 + Bonus - Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Involved Solutions
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£75,000 - £100,000 per annum
used by millions of customers. This role will focus on driving engineering excellence, defining technical standards and leading the design of scalable, high-availability systems across a modern cloud-native environment. Responsibilities for the Principal Java Engineer: Define and evolve engineering strategy, standards and best practices across your domain … Lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams and programmes Design and oversee delivery of large-scale, distributed systems using modern technologies Provide expert guidance on technical risk, architecture decisions and prioritisation Support Staff Engineers and development teams with deep technical leadership Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/ ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Cititec
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
fast-moving engineering team designing and delivering a cloud-native trading platform from the ground up, tightly integrated with risk, pricing, and market data systems to support high-performance trading environments. This is a senior, hands-on role for an engineer who wants end-to-end ownership — from … level protocol integration through to distributed execution services and trader-facing tooling. What You’ll Be Doing Design and build core components of a modern EMS/OMS platform, including order routing, order lifecycle management, venue connectivity, and execution analytics. Implement and maintain FIX protocol and venue-specific integrations ...

Platform Engineer ID47089

Hiring Organisation
Humand Talent
Location
Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
+ Kubernetes – to £75k Oxford | Hybrid Do you enjoy building infrastructure that engineers rely on every day? Interested in working hands-on with Linux systems, Kubernetes clusters and containerised platforms Our client is looking for a Platform Engineer to help design, build and maintain the infrastructure supporting complex engineering … opportunity to: Design and manage Kubernetes clusters Maintain and optimise Linux-based infrastructure Run and scale containerised services Work with networking, storage and distributed systems Build automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions Support engineering teams by maintaining reliable platform environments About You You may currently be a Platform ...

Quant Developer OTC Pricing

Hiring Organisation
James Joseph Associates Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
This is a great opportunity to join a successful firm adding headcount as it continues to grow, and to work on highly visible quantitative systems that sit at the core of pricing, hedging and liquidity decisions. The role offers a rare blend of quantitative research partnership and hands … will be involved in the development of pricing logic, flow analysis, spread optimisation and automated hedging tools. The role also includes working on distributed systems challenges in a 24/7 multi-region environment, where reliability, consistency and performance are critical. This is a high-impact position ...

Contract Full Stack Engineer - (Python focused)

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£425 - £525 per day
help our client build scalable, high-performance applications and contribute across both backend and frontend systems. This role involves working on modern production systems, building APIs and services, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and user-focused products. Key Responsibilities Build prototypes and evolve them into … frontend development , building responsive and intuitive user interfaces in React Design and implement data workflows and system integrations Work with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems Collaborate with engineering and product teams on architecture, design decisions, and technical solutions Support the development of media or data-driven features where ...

Senior Cloud Systems Engineer Optical Ground Systems

Hiring Organisation
Archangel Lightworks Ltd
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Stations?. By enabling ultra-high bandwidth data transfer for space applications, we are driving the future of high-speed, low-latency connectivity. Our systems are at the forefront of innovation, and we are looking for a talented Cloud Systems Engineer to support the cloud software that bridges … Optical Ground Stations with operational systems and external partners. If you are passionate about space, laser communication, cloud software, systems engineering, and integrating complex technologies, wed love to hear from you! Role Overview As a Cloud Systems Engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting ...

Head of Software Architecture Java AWS AI

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Software Architecture you will collaborate with Team Leads across the business to support them with technical architecture and design on large, complex, cloud based distributed systems, ensuring best practice and a cohesive structure. The tech stack is based on modern Java and AWS, using TDD and DevOps practices … architecting and leading the modernisation of Payments, FX or Core Banking platforms You are experienced with designing software architecture for complex, large-scale distributed systems using modern cloud-native architecture You have a strong understanding of agentic AI development tools and how to implement them and drive change ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Snyk
Location
United Kingdom
high-quality, well-tested solutions to complex technical problems Own projects end-to-end — from ideation through to production and iteration Scale and harden distributed systems to meet growing demand and evolving use cases Contribute to operational excellence across reliability, performance, and observability Mentor and support engineers, helping … understand that success is shared A solid foundation in software engineering principles and best practices Nice to have Experience with event-driven architectures and distributed systems Familiarity with AI-native development workflows and tooling Exposure to security products and an understanding of customer pain points in this space ...