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Engineering Team Lead – Distributed Systems/Data Platforms Location: Manchester (Hybrid) Salary: Up to £75,000 + bonus (15–20%) + travel allowance & benefits Permanent, Full-time We are recruiting for an Engineering Team Lead to join a growing technology business and lead a team working on large-scale distributed data platforms. This is a hands-on … leadership role where you’ll oversee the design, development and delivery of resilient, high-availability systems that handle significant data workloads. You’ll work across a range of technologies including Riak, Cassandra, Couchbase, DynamoDB, Aerospike, Redis and MongoDB. Direct experience with NoSQL datastores is a bonus, but not expected. We’re looking for someone with a strong software engineering … teams through data platform or backend engineering projects. You’ll be responsible for driving best practices, mentoring developers and ensuring smooth delivery across multiple projects. A deep understanding of distributed systems, data storage and scalable architectures will be key. Key experience required: Proven experience leading a software or data engineering team Strong understanding of distributed systems More ❯

restore platform stability. Contribute to sprint commitments and actively engage in Agile practices, including retrospectives and process improvements. Engage in continuous learning, deepening knowledge of modern data platform technologies, distributed systems, and engineering best practices. Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role. Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the … understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field; or equivalent work experience Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience, with recent hands-on experience building and maintaining data platforms or distributed systems in cloud environments Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices, with practical experience building and operating data platforms, products, or solutions Experience building and operating applications on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP), including deploying and supporting containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS) Familiarity with lakehouse principles (Delta Lake, Iceberg, or Hudi) and best practices More ❯

Location: London (Hybrid – 4:1) Our client, a leading global trading firm, is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Finance Technology team. This group builds and maintains the systems that power financial control, treasury, and tax functions across the business. The role offers exposure to distributed systems, data engineering, and high-throughput platforms, with the chance … to work on projects ranging from payments automation and expense management to liquidity modelling and regulatory reporting. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain distributed microservices supporting financial operations Develop high-throughput pipelines for ingesting and enriching large datasets Implement automation for payments, purchase order capture, and expense validation Contribute to modelling and calculation frameworks for liquidity and exposure Deliver … and support What We’re Looking For 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience Strong academic grounding in algorithms and data structures Experience with concurrent programming and asynchronous systems Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices-based architectures Commitment to clean, disciplined software engineering practices Proficiency in Go, JavaScript, Java, C++ or other similar statically typed languages Why More ❯

Location: London (Hybrid – 4:1) Our client, a leading global trading firm, is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Finance Technology team. This group builds and maintains the systems that power financial control, treasury, and tax functions across the business. The role offers exposure to distributed systems, data engineering, and high-throughput platforms, with the chance … to work on projects ranging from payments automation and expense management to liquidity modelling and regulatory reporting. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain distributed microservices supporting financial operations Develop high-throughput pipelines for ingesting and enriching large datasets Implement automation for payments, purchase order capture, and expense validation Contribute to modelling and calculation frameworks for liquidity and exposure Deliver … and support What We’re Looking For 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience Strong academic grounding in algorithms and data structures Experience with concurrent programming and asynchronous systems Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices-based architectures Commitment to clean, disciplined software engineering practices Proficiency in Go, JavaScript, Java, C++ or other similar statically typed languages Why More ❯

Location: London (Hybrid – 4:1) Our client, a leading global trading firm, is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Finance Technology team. This group builds and maintains the systems that power financial control, treasury, and tax functions across the business. The role offers exposure to distributed systems, data engineering, and high-throughput platforms, with the chance … to work on projects ranging from payments automation and expense management to liquidity modelling and regulatory reporting. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain distributed microservices supporting financial operations Develop high-throughput pipelines for ingesting and enriching large datasets Implement automation for payments, purchase order capture, and expense validation Contribute to modelling and calculation frameworks for liquidity and exposure Deliver … and support What We’re Looking For 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience Strong academic grounding in algorithms and data structures Experience with concurrent programming and asynchronous systems Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices-based architectures Commitment to clean, disciplined software engineering practices Proficiency in Go, JavaScript, Java, C++ or other similar statically typed languages Why More ❯

Location: London (Hybrid – 4:1) Our client, a leading global trading firm, is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Finance Technology team. This group builds and maintains the systems that power financial control, treasury, and tax functions across the business. The role offers exposure to distributed systems, data engineering, and high-throughput platforms, with the chance … to work on projects ranging from payments automation and expense management to liquidity modelling and regulatory reporting. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain distributed microservices supporting financial operations Develop high-throughput pipelines for ingesting and enriching large datasets Implement automation for payments, purchase order capture, and expense validation Contribute to modelling and calculation frameworks for liquidity and exposure Deliver … and support What We’re Looking For 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience Strong academic grounding in algorithms and data structures Experience with concurrent programming and asynchronous systems Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices-based architectures Commitment to clean, disciplined software engineering practices Proficiency in Go, JavaScript, Java, C++ or other similar statically typed languages Why More ❯

Location: London (Hybrid – 4:1) Our client, a leading global trading firm, is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Finance Technology team. This group builds and maintains the systems that power financial control, treasury, and tax functions across the business. The role offers exposure to distributed systems, data engineering, and high-throughput platforms, with the chance … to work on projects ranging from payments automation and expense management to liquidity modelling and regulatory reporting. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain distributed microservices supporting financial operations Develop high-throughput pipelines for ingesting and enriching large datasets Implement automation for payments, purchase order capture, and expense validation Contribute to modelling and calculation frameworks for liquidity and exposure Deliver … and support What We’re Looking For 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience Strong academic grounding in algorithms and data structures Experience with concurrent programming and asynchronous systems Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices-based architectures Commitment to clean, disciplined software engineering practices Proficiency in Go, JavaScript, Java, C++ or other similar statically typed languages Why More ❯

performance, scalable solutions in the crypto and digital asset space. What You’ll Do Lead and mentor a small, highly skilled team of Java engineers. Design, build, and optimise distributed systems with a focus on performance and security. Collaborate on architecture decisions, ensuring scalability and resilience. Drive best practices in coding, testing, and DevOps. Contribute to product strategy … and technical roadmap within the Crypto domain. What We’re Looking For Strong background in Java Experience with distributed systems and Event Driven Systems (Kafka etc) Previous exposure to blockchain, crypto, or digital asset platforms is desirable. Proven experience leading or mentoring teams while remaining hands-on. Knowledge of cloud-native architectures (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker). The More ❯

performance, scalable solutions in the crypto and digital asset space. What You’ll Do Lead and mentor a small, highly skilled team of Java engineers. Design, build, and optimise distributed systems with a focus on performance and security. Collaborate on architecture decisions, ensuring scalability and resilience. Drive best practices in coding, testing, and DevOps. Contribute to product strategy … and technical roadmap within the Crypto domain. What We’re Looking For Strong background in Java Experience with distributed systems and Event Driven Systems (Kafka etc) Previous exposure to blockchain, crypto, or digital asset platforms is desirable. Proven experience leading or mentoring teams while remaining hands-on. Knowledge of cloud-native architectures (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker). The More ❯

payments capabilities. About the role You’ll join the core engineering team responsible for building and enhancing a real-time payments processing platform. The work involves designing and developing distributed systems that are highly scalable, resilient, and able to handle large transaction volumes. The environment is highly agile, with a strong focus on pair programming, TDD and BDD … re looking for Solid hands-on experience with Java 11+ (ideally Java 21) Good understanding of Reactive Programming concepts with Akka, WebFlux, RxJava etc. Experience working with microservices and distributed systems Background with Kafka and JMS related messaging tools Knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, and performance tuning Familiarity with AWS and MongoDB Previous experience in financial services, ideally within … payments Why join Work on systems used by major global banks Be part of a highly collaborative, engineering-driven culture Focus on real-time, high-throughput systems and modern Java technologies Hybrid working model – 2 days per week in the South London office If you’re passionate about engineering high-quality, real-time systems and want to More ❯

payments capabilities. About the role You’ll join the core engineering team responsible for building and enhancing a real-time payments processing platform. The work involves designing and developing distributed systems that are highly scalable, resilient, and able to handle large transaction volumes. The environment is highly agile, with a strong focus on pair programming, TDD and BDD … re looking for Solid hands-on experience with Java 11+ (ideally Java 21) Good understanding of Reactive Programming concepts with Akka, WebFlux, RxJava etc. Experience working with microservices and distributed systems Background with Kafka and JMS related messaging tools Knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, and performance tuning Familiarity with AWS and MongoDB Previous experience in financial services, ideally within … payments Why join Work on systems used by major global banks Be part of a highly collaborative, engineering-driven culture Focus on real-time, high-throughput systems and modern Java technologies Hybrid working model – 2 days per week in the South London office If you’re passionate about engineering high-quality, real-time systems and want to More ❯

payments capabilities. About the role You’ll join the core engineering team responsible for building and enhancing a real-time payments processing platform. The work involves designing and developing distributed systems that are highly scalable, resilient, and able to handle large transaction volumes. The environment is highly agile, with a strong focus on pair programming, TDD and BDD … re looking for Solid hands-on experience with Java 11+ (ideally Java 21) Good understanding of Reactive Programming concepts with Akka, WebFlux, RxJava etc. Experience working with microservices and distributed systems Background with Kafka and JMS related messaging tools Knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, and performance tuning Familiarity with AWS and MongoDB Previous experience in financial services, ideally within … payments Why join Work on systems used by major global banks Be part of a highly collaborative, engineering-driven culture Focus on real-time, high-throughput systems and modern Java technologies Hybrid working model – 2 days per week in the South London office If you’re passionate about engineering high-quality, real-time systems and want to More ❯

Software Engineer to join a flagship team delivering a next-generation, high-performance derivatives risk platform . This is a mission-critical front-office role working on real-time distributed systems with exceptional technical standards. You’ll be part of a high-calibre team solving complex engineering challenges and shaping the future of risk technology across capital markets. … languages: C#, Python, Rust Front end: JavaScript/TypeScript/Angular/RX JS Infrastructure: Kubernetes, containers, DevOps, CI/CD Emerging tech: WebAssembly, AI integration, and AI frameworks Systems: Cross-platform, distributed, scalable real-time environments This is a genuine technologist’s role — building critical software that combines engineering precision, scalability, and innovation. What We’re Looking … For Very strong expertise in one of C#, Python or Java , ideally with working knowledge of another. Rust very desirable Proven experience designing and developing complex, distributed, real-time systems . Deep understanding of software architecture, concurrency, performance optimisation , and system reliability . Demonstrable front-end engineering experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular or React Familiarity with containerisation (Kubernetes More ❯

Software Engineer to join a flagship team delivering a next-generation, high-performance derivatives risk platform . This is a mission-critical front-office role working on real-time distributed systems with exceptional technical standards. You’ll be part of a high-calibre team solving complex engineering challenges and shaping the future of risk technology across capital markets. … languages: C#, Python, Rust Front end: JavaScript/TypeScript/Angular/RX JS Infrastructure: Kubernetes, containers, DevOps, CI/CD Emerging tech: WebAssembly, AI integration, and AI frameworks Systems: Cross-platform, distributed, scalable real-time environments This is a genuine technologist’s role — building critical software that combines engineering precision, scalability, and innovation. What We’re Looking … For Very strong expertise in one of C#, Python or Java , ideally with working knowledge of another. Rust very desirable Proven experience designing and developing complex, distributed, real-time systems . Deep understanding of software architecture, concurrency, performance optimisation , and system reliability . Demonstrable front-end engineering experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular or React Familiarity with containerisation (Kubernetes More ❯

Software Engineer to join a flagship team delivering a next-generation, high-performance derivatives risk platform . This is a mission-critical front-office role working on real-time distributed systems with exceptional technical standards. You’ll be part of a high-calibre team solving complex engineering challenges and shaping the future of risk technology across capital markets. … languages: C#, Python, Rust Front end: JavaScript/TypeScript/Angular/RX JS Infrastructure: Kubernetes, containers, DevOps, CI/CD Emerging tech: WebAssembly, AI integration, and AI frameworks Systems: Cross-platform, distributed, scalable real-time environments This is a genuine technologist’s role — building critical software that combines engineering precision, scalability, and innovation. What We’re Looking … For Very strong expertise in one of C#, Python or Java , ideally with working knowledge of another. Rust very desirable Proven experience designing and developing complex, distributed, real-time systems . Deep understanding of software architecture, concurrency, performance optimisation , and system reliability . Demonstrable front-end engineering experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular or React Familiarity with containerisation (Kubernetes More ❯

Software Engineer to join a flagship team delivering a next-generation, high-performance derivatives risk platform . This is a mission-critical front-office role working on real-time distributed systems with exceptional technical standards. You’ll be part of a high-calibre team solving complex engineering challenges and shaping the future of risk technology across capital markets. … languages: C#, Python, Rust Front end: JavaScript/TypeScript/Angular/RX JS Infrastructure: Kubernetes, containers, DevOps, CI/CD Emerging tech: WebAssembly, AI integration, and AI frameworks Systems: Cross-platform, distributed, scalable real-time environments This is a genuine technologist’s role — building critical software that combines engineering precision, scalability, and innovation. What We’re Looking … For Very strong expertise in one of C#, Python or Java , ideally with working knowledge of another. Rust very desirable Proven experience designing and developing complex, distributed, real-time systems . Deep understanding of software architecture, concurrency, performance optimisation , and system reliability . Demonstrable front-end engineering experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular or React Familiarity with containerisation (Kubernetes More ❯

seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a high-performing team focused on developing and maintaining mission-critical payment infrastructure. In this role, you will work on high-volume, distributed systems that securely process millions of transactions daily for major financial institutions. You will have the opportunity to design, implement, and optimize scalable services while collaborating with other … deployment. You will work in a flexible, remote-friendly environment, contribute to a mature payments platform, and drive operational excellence in UK financial operations. Accountabilities Design, build, and maintain distributed, high-performance payment systems. Ensure platform reliability, observability, and performance through proactive monitoring and testing strategies. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges and deliver robust … support. Improve internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks. Support high-volume payment products by investigating anomalies and implementing optimizations. Qualifications Deep experience designing and building distributed systems for critical, high-performance applications. Strong programming skills in Go, with a pragmatic approach to selecting the right tools for the job. Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS More ❯

for high-throughput, low-latency systems. Hands-on expertise in Akka/Java microservices, JVM tuning, and asynchronous, event-driven architectures. If you are suitable and passionate about scaling distributed systems and optimizing cloud performance, then this could be for you. Apply today and help power the next generation of global video streaming and video advertising . This … low-latency, ad-serving Java microservices. We're looking for a hands-on engineer who thrives in large-scale, high-performance environments - someone who can design, automate, and optimize systems to achieve <50ms latency, 5M+ concurrent users, and 99.99% uptime. What You'll Do Design and deploy end-to-end AWS environments (landing zones, VPCs, networking, security, automation). … What We're Looking For Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS platform engineering 3-5+ years of senior-level AWS platform engineering for high-throughput, low-latency systems Proven experience owning production environments with 10k-1M+ concurrent users and 99.9x SLOs Hands-on expertise in Akka/Java microservices, JVM tuning, and asynchronous, event-driven architectures Strong More ❯

Company Overview High-growth SaaS platform operating at national scale, powering critical services for thousands of customers daily. Engineering-led, cloud-native, and focused on delivering highly reliable, scalable distributed systems. This will be a senior leadership role driving SRE strategy, platform scalability, and operational excellence. You’ll own reliability, performance and automation across multiple engineering teams, evolving the … and implement resilience strategies. Mentor and technically lead SRE/Platform engineers. Support large-scale re-architecture, capacity planning and FinOps alignment. Core Technical Environment Cloud: AWS (high-throughput systems: 1,000–6,000+ req/sec) IaC: Terraform, configuration management Containers: Kubernetes, Docker (ECS beneficial) Languages: Python, Go or similar Observability: Prometheus, DataDog or equivalents CI/CD … Modern automated pipelines Systems: Distributed systems, microservices, resilience engineering Lead Site Reliability Engineer | Fully Remote | AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform | High-Scale SaaS | £90K More ❯

is seeking a senior-level software developer to design and build core services for their cloud-native platform. This role is critical to improving scalability, performance, and reliability across distributed systems, while also mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction. Key Responsibilities Build scalable, resilient microservices & platform components Optimize performance, reliability, and observability Contribute to system architecture & simplification Ensure … clean, tested, high-quality code Mentor engineers and set technical standards Produce clear documentation & architectural diagrams What They're Looking For 5+ years' experience in distributed systems/scalable services Strong architecture & debugging skills Hands-on expertise with: GCP (preferred), Docker, Kubernetes SQL/NoSQL databases, data warehousing (BigQuery ideal) Messaging systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka) Clear More ❯

we’re now looking for an extremely strong Senior Software Engineer to strengthen our engineering team as we scale. You will have extensive commercial experience designing, building and maintaining systems used in critical services or those handling significant volumes of activity. You will play a crucial role in building key parts of our platform and apps, ensuring the robustness … per week in our central London office, offering the opportunity to build a new options trading platform. What the role involves Designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure systems for critical services Continually improving system performance, reliability, and security Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build a class-leading product Mentoring and guiding engineers, fostering a culture of … Go and others Highly driven by technology with experience across multiple platforms Familiarity with serverless technologies (AWS, Azure or GCP) Strong understanding of system architecture, event-driven design and distributed systems Product-minded and able to work to solutions that are tightly aligned with the product goals Driven and committed to helping grow the organisation Your background Proven More ❯

we’re now looking for an extremely strong Senior Software Engineer to strengthen our engineering team as we scale. You will have extensive commercial experience designing, building and maintaining systems used in critical services or those handling significant volumes of activity. You will play a crucial role in building key parts of our platform and apps, ensuring the robustness … per week in our central London office, offering the opportunity to build a new options trading platform. What the role involves Designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure systems for critical services Continually improving system performance, reliability, and security Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build a class-leading product Mentoring and guiding engineers, fostering a culture of … Go and others Highly driven by technology with experience across multiple platforms Familiarity with serverless technologies (AWS, Azure or GCP) Strong understanding of system architecture, event-driven design and distributed systems Product-minded and able to work to solutions that are tightly aligned with the product goals Driven and committed to helping grow the organisation Your background Proven More ❯

we’re now looking for an extremely strong Senior Software Engineer to strengthen our engineering team as we scale. You will have extensive commercial experience designing, building and maintaining systems used in critical services or those handling significant volumes of activity. You will play a crucial role in building key parts of our platform and apps, ensuring the robustness … per week in our central London office, offering the opportunity to build a new options trading platform. What the role involves Designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure systems for critical services Continually improving system performance, reliability, and security Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build a class-leading product Mentoring and guiding engineers, fostering a culture of … Go and others Highly driven by technology with experience across multiple platforms Familiarity with serverless technologies (AWS, Azure or GCP) Strong understanding of system architecture, event-driven design and distributed systems Product-minded and able to work to solutions that are tightly aligned with the product goals Driven and committed to helping grow the organisation Your background Proven More ❯

quality, high-impact releases. You'll be working with a modern, cloud native tech stack using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka and CI/CD to build highly scalable, distributed systems with 24/7 availability. Location/WFH: There's a hybrid model with two days a week work from home, when you are in the office … range of facilities including roof terrace, restaurant and break out areas. About you: You have strong technical and people leadership skills You have advanced experience of building cloud-native, distributed systems using Java and Spring Boot You have a strong knowledge of AWS including Amazon EKS You have experience with Kafka and event driven architectures You're collaborative More ❯

various technical forums across engineering to apply a data lens at the ecosystem level. The ideal candidate brings 15+ years of engineering experience with significant depth in data technology, distributed systems, and cloud. You'll serve as both a hands-on technical leader and a strategic advisor, helping to establish robust, scalable foundations that enable innovation across the … leadership team to develop and execute on the company’s technical and business strategy Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify the impact of a change across multiple applications and systems Perform technical due diligence and architectural assessments of third-party technologies and solutions. Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions Document standards, best … practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand, build and maintain best in class software systems Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices Grow talent by participating in hiring More ❯