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AI Systems Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
microTECH Global LTD
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, 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 will work closely with senior architects on real-world projects, helping to prototype and optimize next-generation AI infrastructure. Required Qualifications and Skills: · Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. · Strong knowledge ...

esearch (Systems) Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Microtech Global Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
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 will work closely with senior architects on real-world projects, helping to prototype and optimize next-generation AI infrastructure. Required Qualifications and Skills: Bachelors or Masters degree inComputer Science,Electrical Engineering, or related field. Strong knowledge of distributed ...

Software Engineer – C# / .NET (Automation & Distributed Systems)

Hiring Organisation
Avanti
Location
East London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 per annum
Software Engineer – C#/.NET (Automation & Distributed Systems) Fully Remote | £50,000 | London Meetups Every 2 Months We are working with a fast-growing automation and AI-driven software company building backend systems that automate real operational workflows for clients in sectors such as automotive and financial … services. This is not a front-end heavy role. It is backend, systems-focused engineering. The team build long-running background services, distributed processing systems and automation workflows that move data between platforms and trigger real-world business actions. What You’ll Be Doing Building and maintaining ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Burns Sheehan
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform 💸Up to £110,000 per annum plus bonus plus stock 🏠Central London office 🖱️Golang, Rust, C, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Native, Distributed systems... Are you a Senior Software Engineer with extensive knowledge of building distributed systems? Looking … Senior Software Engineer: Tech agnostic but preferable experience working with Golang, Rust, C/C++ or Java. In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, building solutions at scale where performance, reliability and availability are key considerations. Experience working on software infrastructure or building Cloud native software using Kubernetes Understanding ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Burns Sheehan
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Lead Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform 💸Up to £130,000 per annum plus bonus plus stock 🏠Central London office 🖱️Golang, Rust, C, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Native, Distributed systems... Are you a Lead Software Engineer with extensive knowledge of building distributed systems? Looking … Lead Software Engineer: Tech agnostic but preferable experience working with Golang, Rust, Java and/or C/C++. In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, building solutions at scale where performance, reliability and availability are key considerations. Confident in leading the definition and creation of solutions from ...

Engineering Lead - VMWare/Openshift

Hiring Organisation
Square One Resources
Location
Nationwide, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £485/day
Type: 10-month contract (Inside IR35) Company Introduction: We are currently recruiting for an Engineering Lead with experience in large-scale IT infrastructure & distributed systems to join our tier-1 banking client on an exciting long-term contract. Role overview The role is part of the Virtualisation Engineering … Team within Distributed Compute in CTO Enterprise Services. A VMware Engineering POD Lead is responsible for guiding the development and delivery of VMware products, ensuring they meet business needs and customer expectations. Responsible for VMware Products Vision and Strategy with a focus on automation, availability, reliability, performance, and scale. ...

Senior Principal Offensive Security Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oracle
Location
United Kingdom
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Offensive Security team provides OCI with the capabilities to ensure our systems and services meet the security objectives we communicate to customers. The Offensive Security group performs security assessments, vulnerability research, static and dynamic analysis research, penetration testing, red-teaming, and security tool development. … interests. Offensive Security Engineer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Group The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Offensive Security team provides OCI with the capabilities to ensure our systems and services meet the security objectives we communicate to customers. The Offensive Security group performs security assessments, vulnerability research, static and dynamic analysis research ...

Solution Architect - Cloud | Serverless | Distributed Systems | AWS/Az

Hiring Organisation
Scope AT
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Solution Architect - Cloud | Serverless | Distributed Systems | AWS/Azure/GCP Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid) Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect , shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation. What you'll do: Design and implement secure, resilient … cloud and distributed solutions. Leverage AWS/Azure/GCP , containerisation, and serverless technologies. Balance business needs, risk, and technical trade-offs to deliver real value. Collaborate with stakeholders to define strategy and architectural direction. Guide and mentor teams, driving best practice and technical excellence. What you'll bring ...

Back End Developer

Hiring Organisation
Matchtech
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
capable Leading Backend Engineer to become a key contributor within our core engineering team. You’ll be responsible for architecting, building, and scaling the systems that sit at the heart of our AI‐driven video intelligence platform. In this role, you will: Build and maintain backend services that ingest … process, and serve large volumes of video and sensor data Design scalable APIs and distributed systems that power our frontend and ML pipelines Collaborate on shaping infrastructure, architecture, and technical strategy from the ground up Solve complex problems involving real‐time processing, distributed systems, and high ...

Rust Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Up to £200k + Bonus

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Role: Rust Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Up to £200k + Bonus Salary: Up to £200k + Bonus Location: London (Hybrid) Skills: Language agnostic, just need to be a keen technologist (Ideally experienced in Rust, Python or C++) This firm is an elite company with high tech standards … find the best team to suit your skillset/interests but you could be working on: • Designing and developing scalable, tested and production grade distributed systems • R&D work for functional programming; either pre-existing languages (such as Rust and Erlang), or purpose-built languages similar to OCaml ...

Product Owner

Hiring Organisation
Square One Resources
Location
Nationwide, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £485/day
stakeholders; ensure products are updated and compliant with supported versions; communicate CVEs promptly Provide technical direction and leadership, ensuring best practices in VMware products, distributed systems, servers, and storage Handle crisis situations efficiently, representing the team in major incident calls and providing technical expertise Implement robust monitoring … alerting systems to proactively manage platform health Ensure system availability and performance, meeting defined SLAs and SLOs Plan for future Required Skills/Experience The ideal candidate will have the following: 15+ Years of total IT experience with large scale IT Infrastructure and 12+ year of experience with Distributed ...

Head of Engineering (AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
United Kingdom
deep observability, and human-in-the-loop controls where required. We are looking for a Head of Engineering to scale these production-grade agentic systems, strengthen platform reliability, and lead global engineering teams to deliver a secure, highly reliable, and operationally mature SaaS platform . This role sits … intersection of AI-first engineering, distributed systems, and customer impact , working closely with the leadership team, customer success, development, DevOps, and security teams to ensure engineering accelerates, rather than blocks, sustainable growth. This is not a maintenance role. This is a build, scale, and lead role. Why This ...

Senior Software Engineer, Trading Systems

Hiring Organisation
Ripple
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
responsibility from Day 1. You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact and have the opportunity to drive the architectural roadmap, whilst looking … breadth of trading strategies and products. Building towards an event-driven architecture to connect the logical building blocks and provide integrated communication between trading systems and to other partners. Continuing to support and complement Ripple’s Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units WHAT YOU’LL DO: Be an ambitious ...

Software Engineer (Python)

Hiring Organisation
Autonomai Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Role: Software Engineer — Clearing & Post‐Trade Systems Skills: Python, Distributed Systems, Databases, Financial Infrastructure Location: London Compensation: £500K TC Overview Join a high‐impact engineering group building next‐generation clearing and post‐trade systems that support large‐scale algorithmic trading. You’ll design and implement core … latency‐sensitive performance across global trading infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Build, scale, and maintain Python services that manage trade capture, clearing, and settlement processes. Design distributed systems to ensure data integrity and fault tolerance across trading and back‐office pipelines. Work closely with trading, operations, and risk teams ...

Senior Java Engineer – Reactive (Spring WebFlux)

Hiring Organisation
Fynity
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
week onsite) Are you a senior, hands-on Engineer who thrives in event-driven, asynchronous environments? Do you enjoy building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems where correctness, resilience, and performance really matter? This is an opportunity to work at the core of real-time payments infrastructure, helping … scale. What You’ll Be Doing You’ll play a senior individual-contributor role within a high-performing engineering team, 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 ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Verifone
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
electronic payment technology industry. Verifone has one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide. Verifone has a diverse, dynamic and fast paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. … Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next platform of secure payment systems or searching for new ways to bring electronic payments to new markets, the team at Verifone is dedicated to the success of our customers ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
ClearSky Logic
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70,000
using .NET Core for large enterprise applications. Technical Excellence: Establish and maintain coding standards, review practices, and ensure high coding standards across the team. Distributed Systems: Architecting microservices and distributed systems using inter-service communication like gRPC and HTTP APIs. Event-Driven Design: Leveraging message-based … systems, specifically Azure Service Bus, for asynchronous processing. Infrastructure & DevOps: Managing Infrastructure as Code and Azure CI/CD pipelines to drive innovation. Testing Strategy: Implementing comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, integration, and subcutaneous/e2e testing. Who We Are Looking For A Technical Mentor: Someone who provides guidance ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
iDPP
Location
Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Clearance Essential Our client, an innovative UK technology company is building a next-generation AI platform for defence and health applications . Their systems operate in highly regulated, mission-critical environments where reliability, security, and performance truly matter. Were looking for a Lead Software Engineer to take technical ownership … platform components, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers as we scale. This is a hands-on leadership role youll be writing code, shaping systems, and directly influencing the future of the platform. This is a genuine ground-floor opportunity to shape both the technology and the engineering culture within ...

Software Engineer (Defence)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
high-impact engineering team operating at the heart of the UK's national security and defence mission. You'll work on sophisticated, mission-critical systems that support real-world operations, collaborating with experts across engineering, intelligence and defence. This is a role for engineers who want to work … scalable software solutions for some of the most sensitive and challenging technical environments in the UK. You'll work within multidisciplinary teams that include systems engineers, analysts, data specialists and security professionals. Engineering excellence, attention to detail and collaboration will sit at the core of your ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Develop
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
typical feature-delivery role. This is an opportunity to help redefine how goods move in the digital economy- working at the intersection of distributed systems, routing algorithms, machine learning, and real-world operational systems. The Team Close to 100 people globally and will be looking to almost double … Data Culture built around experimentation, high standards and rapid feedback loops You'll work closely with senior engineering leadership who have previously scaled large distributed systems and ML-driven platforms at global technology companies. Tech Environment Backend systems currently built in Python, looking to move to Golang ...

Satellite Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
client is leading the way in next-generation communications, building laser communication systems and software-defined networking platforms for aerospace and deep-space applications. With technology acquired from Google, theyre creating solutions that let satellites, aircraft, and even cislunar networks communicate seamlessly essentially bringing space and Earth … What Youll Be Doing Building and maintaining delay-tolerant networking products, platforms, and APIs using Rust, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers Working on scalable and distributed systems using Kubernetes Debugging, optimising, and improving systems for full-scale production environments Collaborating with front-end developers to integrate user-facing ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Team Lead)

Hiring Organisation
Futuria
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
where you'll split your time between writing production code and mentoring engineers. You'll lead a cross-functional engineering team working across our distributed platform stack. You're accountable for your team's execution, code quality, testing practices, and continuous improvement. This is NOT a product management role … leading or mentoring engineers Strong expertise in Python backend development with async patterns Production experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture and API design Experience with container orchestration, CI/CD, and cloud platforms Experience with NoSQL databases and data modelling Daily ...

Solution Architect - Cloud Serverless Distributed Systems AWS/Az

Hiring Organisation
Scope AT
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
Solution Architect - Cloud Serverless Distributed Systems AWS/Azure/GCP Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid) Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect , shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation. What you'll do: Design and implement secure, resilient … cloud and distributed solutions click apply for full job details ...

Member of Technical Staff – Batched Inference Server

Hiring Organisation
Doubleword
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
influence how we design, build, test, and ship software. What You’ll Be Doing You will build and scale our batched inference platform, a distributed system that handles thousands of concurrent batch jobs across multiple LLM deployments. Tech stack Rust for core services TypeScript for user interfaces PostgreSQL … persistent state Kubernetes for deployment and orchestration Core areas of work Database optimization under high load and concurrent access patterns Distributed job scheduling and retry logic Real time observability and monitoring Designing for failure from the start to build reliability into the system What We’re Looking For Requirements ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Wave Talent
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Hybrid) The Opportunity 💻 Join a high-performance technology company building complex, real-time platforms used globally at significant scale. The business operates mission-critical systems where performance, reliability and speed matter. It has a mature product with strong usage while continuing to evolve its architecture and engineering practices. … stepping into a deeply technical environment where engineers work across modern distributed systems, event-driven architecture and high-throughput services. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who wants to shape both people and platform. About the Role 💼 You’ll lead a team of engineers responsible ...