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Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Cirrus Selection Limited
Location
BS34, Filton, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£60000 - £70000/annum + Bonus, Overtime, Pension
Salary up to £70,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Want to work on complex software that sits at the heart of advanced defence systems? We're looking for an experienced Software Engineer with strong RTI DDS and distributed systems experience to help shape the architecture, design … data models, support system-level design decisions, and provide technical leadership across multiple software teams. You'll work closely with architects, technical leads and systems engineers to ensure software, middleware and communications frameworks continue to support highly capable, real-world defence systems. What you'll be doing Developing ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Senior Software Engineer: Sports Betting Up to £120,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits London - 5 Days On-Site | Python | Java | AI | Low Latency | Distributed Systems Build software where performance, mathematics and real-time decision-making genuinely matter. We're partnering with a highly technical sports betting business … continuing to invest in its engineering function. They're looking for Senior Software Engineers to work on complex backend systems operating across real-time data, quantitative problems and high-performance distributed architecture. This is an opportunity for engineers who enjoy difficult technical problems rather than simply delivering features ...

Senior Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Rise Technical Recruitment
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75000 - £85000/annum Bonus, Healthcare
Senior Systems Engineer Basingstoke, Hampshire | Highly Competitive Salary | Permanent | 4th Line/Systems/Infrastructure £75,000 - £85,000 DOE | Pension | Healthcare| 10% Bonus | On-call supplement £450p/m Are you a Senior Systems Engineer with strong experience across Linux, Java, SQL and high-availability infrastructure … system reliability, monitoring and self-healing capability. The Role Technical Environment: Java | Linux | VMware | SQL | MS SQL Server | PostgreSQL | Bash | Python | IP Networking | DNS | Distributed Systems | Performance Monitoring | Troubleshooting | Debugging | ITIL | Configuration Management Provide 4th line technical support across smart metering head-end systems and radio access ...

Senior Software Developer II - Wise for Banks

Hiring Organisation
Wise
Location
Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary
111000 to 145000 GBP Annually
looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Wise for Banks team and help shape the technical direction of the systems powering Wise’s global payment network. In this role, you’ll operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and partnerships by driving the architecture, scalability … Wise. With deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and PostgreSQL, you’ll lead the design of highly available services and event-driven systems that power partner integrations and financial flows at scale. You’ll influence architecture across Wise’s ecosystem of 700+ microservices, helping teams make sound technical ...

Senior Software Architect - C#/.NET & Distributed Systems

Hiring Organisation
Computer Futures
Location
West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Software Architect - - C#/.NET, Azure & Distributed Systems The Opportunity An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Software Architect to play a key role in the development and evolution of a market-leading Warehouse Control System platform. This position will suit a hands-on architect who enjoys … architectural standards, development frameworks and technical governance. Lead design reviews and provide technical guidance throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Support integration of Warehouse Control Systems with WMS, ERP, robotics, conveyors, automated storage systems and third-party platforms. Work with customers and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and translate ...

Senior Software Architect - C#/.NET & Distributed Systems

Hiring Organisation
Computer Futures
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 70,000 - 100,000 Annual
Software Architect C#/.NET, Azure & Distributed Systems The Opportunity An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Software Architect to play a key role in the development and evolution of a market-leading Warehouse Control System platform. This position will suit a hands-on architect who enjoys … architectural standards, development frameworks and technical governance. Lead design reviews and provide technical guidance throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Support integration of Warehouse Control Systems with WMS, ERP, robotics, conveyors, automated storage systems and third-party platforms. Work with customers and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and translate ...

Senior Data Plaform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Aker Systems Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive … performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations. In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a One to Watch on the Sunday ...

Fractional Lead Graph Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Elliot Marsh
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Part Time
detection of risk and anomalies. The business is now building the technical foundations of the platform and is looking for an experienced graph and distributed systems specialist who can provide senior-level expertise on a fractional basis. Fractional Lead Graph Engineer The Role: The Fractional Lead Graph Engineer … infrastructure specialists, transferring knowledge into the wider engineering team Fractional Lead Graph Engineer You: - Significant commercial experience designing and scaling enterprise graph databases, distributed data systems or high-volume event-driven backends - Strong production experience with Neo4j and graph query languages such as Cypher or Gremlin - Deep understanding ...

JAVA Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DCV Technologies
Location
Bristol, City of Bristol, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day - Hybrid / Inside IR35
experience in designing, developing, and optimizing real-time, low-latency data processing platforms . The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in Java, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, streaming technologies, and data engineering frameworks to build scalable solutions capable of processing high-volume data changes with minimal latency. … This role requires hands-on experience in developing enterprise-grade backend applications that capture, process, transform, and distribute real-time data across multiple systems while ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance Required Experience 8+ years of backend application development experience using Java. Experience building ultra-low-latency systems (<100ms ...

Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Tiger Resourcing Group
Location
Crawley, Three Bridges, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Systems Engineer Key Role Details Location: South-East, UK (hybrid) Contract: 15-month fixed-term contract Role Overview We are seeking a Systems Engineer to join an Engineering team responsible for the delivery, integration and evolution of complex software-intensive technology systems. The role involves the analysis, design … integration and delivery of technical solutions, ensuring that systems meet defined requirements, technical standards, quality expectations and project objectives. Working closely with customers, project managers, software developers, infrastructure specialists, hardware engineers and other technical stakeholders, the Systems Engineer will contribute throughout the full systems lifecycle, from requirements ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Senior Software Engineer, you should have experience with: Designing, building, and operating Event Fabric capabilities that support asynchronous, loosely-coupled integration across distributed systems, including the delivery of production-grade platform components from proof-of-concept through to enterprise adoption. Contributing to event standards, patterns, and best practices … such as Azure and GCP. Some other highly valued skills may include: Hands-on Java engineering experience, building high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested systems, including the design and delivery of distributed systems using event-driven and asynchronous communication patterns. Practical experience with microservices and API design ...

Principal Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £600 per day + Inside IR-35
Remote Working | Occasional Travel to London We're looking for a Principal Developer to join a major engineering programme delivering large-scale, cloud-native systems within AWS. This is a hands-on technical leadership role suited to an experienced engineer who enjoys remaining close to the code while helping … decisions, technical governance and live service operations. What You'll Be Doing Leading the design and development of large-scale cloud-native applications. Delivering distributed, event-driven microservices-based solutions. Providing technical leadership and direction across multiple teams. Collaborating with architects, security specialists and senior stakeholders. Acting ...

Technical Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
architectural decisions. Expect a fast learning curve across technology, regulation, and market structure. What You'll Do Architecture & System Design Design secure, scalable distributed systems for regulated environments Define and evolve system architecture, APIs, and integration patterns Apply sound software design patterns and architectural principles Contribute to decisions … ledger and smart contract design Build in auditability, resilience, and operational robustness from the outset Distributed Ledger & Digital Assets Work directly with distributed ledger technology and smart contracts Help design models covering tokenised and natively digital assets Work on atomic settlement, and DvP/RvP settlement mechanisms Explore ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Senior Software Engineer, you should have experience with: Designing, building, and operating Event Fabric capabilities that support asynchronous, loosely-coupled integration across distributed systems, including the delivery of production-grade platform components from proof-of-concept through to enterprise adoption. Contributing to event standards, patterns, and best practices … code, and deployment pipelines. Some other highly valued skills may include: Hands-on Java engineering experience, building high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested systems, including the design and delivery of distributed systems using event-driven and asynchronous communication patterns. Practical experience with microservices and API design, with ...

Senior Software Developer - Scala

Hiring Organisation
Sage
Location
City, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
sensitive workloads. • Deep understanding of OOP principles, functional programming, concurrency, the Scala type system, and advanced architectural patterns (e.g., Tagless Final, type classes, effect systems). • Ability to design and evolve complex distributed systems while promoting engineering best practices across the team • Hands-on experience with … delivery practices. • Good understanding of CI/CD, Git, branching strategies, pull request flows, automated testing, and release practices. • Ability to work effectively in distributed Agile teams, communicate clearly, and take ownership of complex technical problems. Nice to Have: • Experience with Squeryl, Doobie, or similar Scala data access libraries. ...

Principal Technology Innovation Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Frontier Resourcing Ltd
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Technical Interest The role could involve working across a broad range of technologies and engineering disciplines, including: Artificial Intelligence and machine learning AI systems engineering and integration Natural Language Processing Computer vision and image processing Quantum technologies C++ and Python development Modern web technologies Cloud-native engineering Distributed systems and architecture Network protocols and communications Observability and monitoring platforms Message brokers and event-driven architectures Database technologies Web authentication and security Version control and CI/CD Linux and wider systems engineering The precise focus will evolve as projects, customer requirements and technology developments change. ...

Developer - Scala

Hiring Organisation
Sage
Location
City, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
sensitive workloads. • Deep understanding of OOP principles, functional programming, concurrency, the Scala type system, and advanced architectural patterns (e.g., Tagless Final, type classes, effect systems). • Ability to design and evolve complex distributed systems while promoting engineering best practices across the team • Hands-on experience with … delivery practices. • Good understanding of CI/CD, Git, branching strategies, pull request flows, automated testing, and release practices. • Ability to work effectively in distributed Agile teams, communicate clearly, and take ownership of complex technical problems. Nice to Have: • Experience with Squeryl, Doobie, or similar Scala data access libraries. ...

Principal Engineer - Electronic Pricing - Financial Services - TWE4745

Hiring Organisation
Twenty Recruitment Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
financial markets organisation investing in the development and modernisation of its core technology platforms. The engineering team builds and supports high-throughput, business-critical systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, automation and engineering quality. Role As a Principal Engineer, you will remain hands-on while helping shape … architecture and technical direction of highly available, distributed software platforms. Design and develop backend applications and services within a Java environment. Build and enhance distributed systems operating at high throughput and availability. Design event-driven architectures and integrations using Kafka. Shape technical approaches and contribute to architecture ...

Software Engineer - Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£70 - £72 per hour
availability streams, real-time messaging, webhooks, and complex data translations-ensuring seamless communication between external platforms and internal microservices. Responsibilities Architect, deploy, and manage distributed backend microservices powering critical third-party integrations. Create reliable, event-driven data flows to process partner product updates, availability matrices, and transactional notifications. Apply … strong distributed systems practices (fault tolerance, retries, rate-limiting, and idempotency) while leveraging metrics and tracing to maintain system health. Own the Lifecycle: Take end-to-end technical ownership-from refining specs and coding to testing, safe releases, and live production monitoring. Essential Proven experience engineering high-scale ...

Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
MJA (London) Ltd
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
Looking for a detailed orientated engineer to join an existing engineering team, understand the architecture quickly, contribute production-quality code, troubleshoot distributed systems, and independently drive assigned deliverables through to deployment. You should have the following experience: MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js, C#/.NET Core 10+ … Server 19+. Programming: JavaScript and TypeScript Architecture: Microservices and distributed applications Event-Driven Architecture: Apache Kafka Kafka: Producers, consumers, topics, partitions and consumer groups Cloud: AWS application deployment and support DevOps: CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation Containers: Docker APIs: RESTful API design and development using C# with ...

Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
MJA (London) Ltd
Location
EC3, Broad Street, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Looking for a detailed orientated engineer to join an existing engineering team, understand the architecture quickly, contribute production-quality code, troubleshoot distributed systems, and independently drive assigned deliverables through to deployment. You should have the following experience: MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js, C#/.NET Core 10+ … Server 19+. Programming: JavaScript and TypeScript Architecture: Microservices and distributed applications Event-Driven Architecture: Apache Kafka Kafka: Producers, consumers, topics, partitions and consumer groups Cloud: AWS application deployment and support DevOps: CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation Containers: Docker APIs: RESTful API design and development using C# with ...

AI Native DevOps Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
serving infrastructure and AI observability capabilities Lead incident response and drive continuous improvement across production environments Work closely with engineering teams delivering microservices and distributed cloud-native applications Required Experience Significant experience working as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or Cloud Engineer Strong hands-on expertise … pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar technologies Experience with containerisation, container orchestration and modern cloud-native architectures Experience deploying and supporting distributed systems and microservices Strong understanding of cloud networking, security and production platform operations Experience implementing observability across monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting Experience applying ...

Technical Lead - C#, RESTful APIs

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£480 - £500/day
architects to deliver secure, scalable and maintainable services and APIs. Key Skills & Experience Strong C#/.NET software engineering experience. Technical leadership of distributed systems, microservices and REST APIs . Strong Microsoft Azure experience. GitHub Actions, CI/CD and Terraform . Technical architecture and design decision-making. … modernisation within regulated environments. NHS digital standards and secure service delivery. Keywords: C# | .NET | Azure | Terraform | GitHub Actions | CI/CD | REST APIs | Microservices | Distributed Systems | Docker | Azure API Management | GitHub Copilot | AI | DevOps | Cloud | Software Engineering | Technical Lead | Architecture | Automated Testing | Security | Observability ...

Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack

Hiring Organisation
FBI &TMT
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack to join its core engineering team on a permanent basis. The role will involve designing, building and scaling systems that process video and sensor data, while delivering AI-powered features for real-world security and operations. Key Responsibilities: Build and maintain backend services … TypeScript and React, including modern tools such as React Query and Tailwind Contribute to infrastructure, system architecture and cloud-native engineering decisions Work on distributed systems, real-time processing, high availability and system performance Collaborate effectively with AI, product and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable features Support ...

Forward Deployed Agentic AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
WTW
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
measurable value. You'll own the full lifecycle-from architecture and build through to deployment and adoption-embedding AI into real workflows, integrating enterprise systems, and ensuring solutions are secure, reliable, and truly user-centric. Sitting close to the business, you'll continuously refine solutions to maximise impact, efficiency … passion for building and deploying agentic AI solutions that solve real-world business challenges. You will bring deep expertise across modern full-stack technologies, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and observability, combined with hands-on experience developing enterprise-grade AI applications. You will design, build, and deploy intelligent ...