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Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems Engineer)

Hiring Organisation
TechChain Talent
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Backend Engineer: Distributed Systems Specialist Location: New York or London (Hybrid) Salary: $300,000 – $350,000 USD About Us We’re a stealth-mode infrastructure venture building next-gen primitives for decentralized execution. Our mission: rethink how distributed systems scale, sync, and self-heal — with … focus on performance, modularity, and cryptographic integrity. Our team includes protocol veterans, systems engineers, and cryptography researchers pushing the limits of what’s possible in Web3 infra. The Role We’re hiring a Backend Engineer with deep distributed systems expertise to help architect and optimize our core ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Burns Sheehan
Location
City of London, Greater London, UK
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 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, UK
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 ...

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 ...

Technical Solutions Engineer - Deep-Tech AI Start-up

Hiring Organisation
Urban Digital Recruitment Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
retail estates. They’re hiring a Technical Solutions Engineer, not a TAM, not a PM, not an implementation role. Think: deep troubleshooting, edge deployments, distributed systems, containers, logs, Linux, cloud , and full technical ownership of AI models running across thousands of PoS devices . If you love pulling … systems apart, debugging across multiple layers, and being the technical face of a cutting-edge AI product, this is for you. What You’ll Be Doing Own the technical success of enterprise deployments across thousands of PoS + edge devices Troubleshoot end-to-end: AI model behaviour, device integrations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
G.Digital
Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Software Engineer to join its UK-based engineering team. The organisation builds and operates large-scale, consumer-facing platforms used at significant scale. Their systems combine cloud-native services, distributed architectures, and edge-based software, running in highly available, production-critical environments. The Role You’ll join … evolving a complex, real-world platform. The team delivers new features, maintains live services, and continuously improves performance, reliability, and observability across a distributed system. The role covers a broad technical surface area, including: Cloud-based services written primarily in Python Distributed and edge-based components developed ...

Senior Software Engineer, Trading Systems

Hiring Organisation
Ripple
Location
London, UK
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 ...

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 ...

Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++ / Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000.

Hiring Organisation
IT Graduate Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£55,000 - £77,000 per annum, OTE
Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++/Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000 | Hybrid (London/Remote) Build technology that powers real trading. Join a high-performance engineering team developing low-latency, resilient backend systems used in live trading environments. You’ll work on complex technical challenges from … Quant-Engineering tracks within 12–24 months. What You’ll Do Design, build, and optimise backend components of real-time trading and risk systems Develop clean, efficient, high-performance code in C++ and Java Work closely with traders, quants, and senior engineers to deliver new features Solve complex problems ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Orbis Group
Location
United Kingdom
scale the engineering organization responsible for delivering the company’s core risk platform. You’ll define technical direction across architecture, data infrastructure, analytics systems, and compute pipelines, while integrating emerging intelligence-driven capabilities such as automated risk scoring, alerting, reporting, and anomaly detection. You’ll work cross-functionally with … technical leader in customer evaluations, deployments, and audits. Technical Skills & Required Expertise The role requires deep hands-on architectural and technical leadership across distributed systems, data platforms, and analytics tooling. Languages & Backend Python, Go (Golang), TypeScript Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API-driven architectures Data ...

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 ...

Java Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Kneu Health
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£60,000
scaling across the UK and US with proven outcomes and growing demand. The Role As a Backend Engineer , youll build the secure, scalable systems that power Kneus products. Youll work on services and infrastructure that clinicians rely on for decision-making, enable patients to access impactful tools … maintain backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable Design and develop REST APIs for mobile and/or web applications Contribute to distributed systems and microservice architectures Support database design (SQL) and backend architecture decisions Improve release processes and deployment workflows Collaborate closely with engineering and data ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£53.85 - £61.68 per hour
Hybrid) Contract Duration: 6 months Join a specialized Applied AI team driving innovation in business operations. The group accelerates AI transformation by developing agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure to automate workflows and drive efficiency. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer (L5) to deliver production-grade code while … architecting autonomous AI workflows. This role combines technical expertise, product thinking, and scaling AI solutions across complex systems, working in a small agile team within a larger engineering organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered systems that enhance global sales workflows. Build scalable backend services ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Native
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
approach to accurate database reasoning. About the role This is a founding Platform Engineer role, with the opportunity to shape Native’s infrastructure and systems architecture from day one. You will build the platform that turns cutting-edge research into reliable, production-grade systems. Design, build, and operate … core platform that powers research and production workloads Productionise research systems into robust, scalable services Build internal platforms and tooling for researchers and engineers Own compute, storage, networking, and deployment infrastructure Design and operate CI/CD, observability, and reliability systems Think deeply about performance, isolation, fault tolerance ...

Junior C++ Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
This role sits within a high-performing engineering group responsible for building and supporting the core systems that underpin real-time trading activity. The successful candidate will work across the full software development lifecycle, contributing to the design, build, deployment, and optimisation of highly scalable, performance-critical applications. … Responsibilities Build, test, and enhance high-performance trading systems using C++ and Python Translate quantitative models and trading logic into robust production-ready software Develop internal tools and interfaces used directly by front-office trading teams Improve market data ingestion, exchange connectivity, and real-time data flows Contribute ...