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Senior Software Engineer Python/Distributed Systems

Hiring Organisation
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Location
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 50,000 - 75,000 Annual
occasional travel. Location: Reading, with some office presence to be part of the team. Key skills required for the Software Engineer role - Python/Distributed Systems Strong commercial experience developing performant Back End systems in Python (C, C++, Rust desirable) Experience or strong interest in asynchronous … network programming Exposure to some of distributed systems, networking and Client Server architectures Comfortable working in Linux-based development environments Interest in learning systems programming languages such as C, C++ or Rust Familiarity with virtualisation platforms (VMware, KVM, Hyper-V) and/or cloud environments (AWS, Azure ...

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Burns Sheehan
Location
London Area, 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 ...

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
City of London, London, 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 ...

Senior Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter LTD
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
internal compute frameworks that underpin their trading and research platforms. This is a high-impact role, working at the intersection of software engineering and distributed systems, with the opportunity to build scalable tools and frameworks used across the business. What youll do: Design, develop, and maintain performant, reliable … tools and platforms that streamline workflows across investment and technology teams Contribute to code reviews and best practices, improving overall development quality Work across distributed systems, containers, and automation pipelines to deliver scalable solutions What were looking for: 6+ years professional software development experience Strong proficiency in high ...

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 ...

AI Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
build of this platform, shape its architecture, and partner with deep technical SMEs across the business to ensure our AI systems operate with the highest levels of performance, security, and responsible oversight The client is investing in the next generation of AI capabilities, with safety, resilience, and trust … core. We're creating a cutting-edge AI Control Tower -a centralised platform and dashboard that monitors, governs, and optimises AI systems across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering. This role ...

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 ...

esearch (Systems) Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Microtech Global Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 100,000 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 ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
client is expanding their engineering team and we’re supporting them in the search for a Senior Java Developer with strong experience in distributed systems, large‐scale data processing, and high‐performance microservices. This is an opportunity to join a highly technical environment working on an event‐driven … play a key part in designing and delivering Java‐based services that power a complex, data‐intensive system. The ideal candidate enjoys solving distributedsystems challenges, improving performance, and contributing to architectural decisions. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain Java‐based microservices Build scalable event‐stream processing pipelines using ...

AI Systems Architect

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Winsford, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Systems Architect - Cheshire My Client is a privately owned technology company operating in a specialist, data-driven domain, currently scaling a complex software platform built around edge computing, distributed systems, and AI workloads. They are seeking an experienced AI Systems Architect to take technical ownership … offers significant autonomy, influence over technical direction, and long-term progression for the right individual. The Role This position sits at the intersection of systems architecture, backend engineering, and platform reliability. You will design and build the infrastructure that connects distributed edge environments with backend services, ensuring systems ...

Principle Architect Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
StarCompliance
Location
York, England, United Kingdom
experienced engineering leaders not only to deliver high-quality services, system designs and code, but to help shape how all teams work and how systems evolve. We’re looking for a Principal Engineering Lead to play a lead role within our Architecture engineering team. This role is suited … role blends hands-on architectural depth with organisational leadership. You will set the architectural direction, chair the Architecture Forum, and ensure that our systems are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective at scale. You will line-manage two Principal Architect Engineers and work closely with engineering, product, security ...

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer - Quant Firm

Hiring Organisation
Dex
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
technical challenge. What You’ll Work On Architect Low-Latency Infrastructure: Design and implement the critical path for trading execution, building order management systems and market connectivity layers where performance is measured in microseconds. Scale Data Pipelines: Engineer elegant, distributed systems capable of ingesting and processing petabytes … performance across networking, I/O, and compute layers, squeezing maximum efficiency out of hardware. Build World-Class Observability: Create robust monitoring and telemetry systems to provide real-time insights into pipeline health, trading activity, and model behavior. Work with the Best: Work side-by-side with world-class ...

Principal Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
djr
Location
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
reuse, speed, and long-term resilience. Architecture is not an afterthought here — it is a first-class discipline with real influence over how systems are designed, built, and evolved. This role is for a Principal-level Solution Architect who wants to shape platforms , guide engineering teams, and design solutions … solution architecture , not diagram production. Key responsibilities: Owning solution architecture across complex enterprise SaaS platforms Designing cloud-native, scalable, resilient systems Translating product and business needs into clear, executable technical designs Defining architectural patterns, standards, and guardrails Guiding engineering teams through architectural trade-offs Ensuring solutions meet expectations around ...

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 ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
iDPP
Location
Crofton Park, Greater London, UK
defence and health applications . Please read the information in this job post thoroughly to understand exactly what is expected of potential candidates. 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 … 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 ...

AI Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
capabilities that underpin AI observability and governance across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering . You will develop core components of the platform, contribute to its evolution, and ensure our AI systems … capture metrics such as: Model performance, drift, and degradation Operational and service health Security posture and policy adherence Guardrail compliance for ML and GenAI systems Governance and risk indicators Implement observability tooling using logging, metrics, tracing, and event-driven patterns. Apply secure-by-design principles, strong IAM practices ...

Satellite Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
City of London, London, 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 ...

Satellite Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East, 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 Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
GTreasury
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer Lead complex engineering work | Azure | .NET | Distributed Systems At GTreasury, we build software that sits at the heart of the CFO’s office. Our SaaS platform handles complex financial workflows at global scale - and we’re investing heavily in the next phase of growth. … build it, you run it) Influence architecture, code quality, and engineering standards Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decision-making Support production systems in a mature DevOps environment 👀 What You Bring 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience Strong expertise in .NET and SQL-based systems Experience building ...

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 ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pexip
Location
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
automation, and quality assurance. About you We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences. If you re passionate about building high-performance, real-time systems, we d love to hear from you even if you don t tick every box. We value curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to learn … experience with asynchronous and network programming. What you ll do: Collaborate with a talented, diverse team to design and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to distributed systems that impact hundreds of thousands of users globally. Apply your problem-solving skills to challenging, meaningful work. Competencies that will help ...