18 of 18 Contract Distributed Systems Jobs in England

Contract Principal Software Architect

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum It Recruitment Limited
Location
Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
integrations. Define clear service boundaries, ownership models and integration patterns . Support engineering teams in delivering scalable, maintainable and well-structured solutions. Assess existing systems and identify opportunities to simplify, consolidate and modernise platform capabilities. Support the evolution of legacy systems towards agreed target-state architectures through pragmatic … incremental change. Make and guide technical decisions around distributed systems, APIs, integrations, data and cloud architecture . Ensure security, resilience, observability, performance and scalability are incorporated into solution designs. Identify architectural risks, technical debt and platform constraints, and establish appropriate mitigation strategies. Provide technical review and architectural guidance ...

Software Engineer X2 (Back end)

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
technical subject matter expert, driving engineering best practises and operational excellence in an Agile environment. Responsibilities: Design and deploy scalable, high-performance backend systems and platforms. Monitor, maintain, and optimise large-scale distributed systems. Automate deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management processes. Lead incident resolution, troubleshooting, and root … cause analysis activities. Ensure systems meet security, compliance, and resilience requirements. Collaborate with engineering, QA, DevOps, and support teams to enhance platform performance. Support capacity planning and initiatives for future scalability. Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures. Champion Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban. Required Skills & Experience: Strong experience ...

Senior Backend Developer (Python) - Remote

Hiring Organisation
IO
Location
Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 45 - 50 Hourly
Opportunity to work with modern technologies on technically challenging projects If you're an experienced Python Backend Developer looking to work on large-scale distributed systems using modern engineering practices, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today with your latest CV for a confidential discussion. ...

Senior Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
GTC Recruitment
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £750/day
Java Spring Boot AWS Apache Kafka MongoDB Microservices and RESTful APIs Automated testing and modern software engineering practices CI/CD and DevOps principles Distributed systems and system integration What We're Looking For We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer who can work independently, take … Ideally, you will have experience in: Leading or providing technical direction to software engineering teams. Mentoring and developing junior and mid-level engineers. Designing systems with scalability, resilience, availability and security in mind. Reviewing and challenging technical designs. Troubleshooting complex production and infrastructure problems. Working within Agile delivery environments. ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£65 - £73 per hour
backend services that connect the platform to third-party attraction providers. You will focus on scaling partner integrations, data ingestion, and building highly resilient distributed systems. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain cloud-native backend services, utilizing event-driven patterns where appropriate. Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle … Solid understanding of Kafka or comparable event-streaming/messaging technologies. Extensive experience designing and integrating HTTP APIs with external systems. Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (e.g., idempotency, retries, rate limiting) and CI/CD pipelines. Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative, communicative approach. Nice ...

C# Developer - Front Office Investment bank

Hiring Organisation
Meraki Talent Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£650 - £850 per day, Negotiable
experience with C# .NET and object-oriented programming principles. Excellent understanding of software design patterns and best practices. Strong experience building service-oriented or distributed systems. Advanced MS SQL development skills. Experience using DevOps and CI/CD tooling. Practical knowledge of AI-assisted software development, including enterprise ...

Senior C# Engineer .NET 9/10, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS Outside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Smart Sourcer Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £700 to £800 per day
major greenfield B2B SaaS platform as a deeply senior, hands-on C# engineer, with heavy emphasis on deep .NET engineering , high-performance distributed systems , and real-world AWS serverless delivery . Youll also have the opportunity to develop hands-on skills with Claude Code , one of the most … industry. Role Overview: Youll operate as the technical spearhead for a greenfield product build, reporting to the Director of Engineering. Expect deep backend engineering, distributed system design, and high-quality serverless delivery, plus the chance to adopt modern AI-assisted development practices as part of your workflow. What Youll ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £601 per day
teams and other stakeholders to deliver technical solutions. Identify technical risks and opportunities for improving system performance, scalability and resilience. Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems and production environments. Contribute to engineering best practices, coding standards and continuous improvement. Key Skills & Experience Strong commercial experience as a Software …/Software Developer . Strong Java development experience. Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-based architectures. Strong understanding of system-level thinking and distributed systems. Experience working with third-party integrations, APIs and external systems . Strong knowledge of automated testing and robust test frameworks . Experience ...

Senior .NET / AWS Engineer - Cloud Modernisation

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550 per day
native engineering AWS ECS Docker/containerisation Terraform and/or CloudFormation Event-driven or event-sourced architecture AWS SNS and SQS Microservices/distributed systems SQL Server CI/CD and automated deployment Most importantly, we're looking for engineers who have personally delivered this type ...

Application Support Engineer (Cash Equities)

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
ensure stability, performance, and continuous improvement of a mission-critical execution environment. This is an excellent opportunity to gain exposure to high-frequency trading systems, global markets, and cutting-edge real-time technologies in a fast-paced environment. Key Responsibilities Provide hands-on Level 1/2/… runbooks, procedures, tools) Participate in on-call and weekend rotations as part of a global support model Required Skills & Experience Strong experience supporting trading systems or low-latency platforms Solid expertise in Unix/Linux environments and system-level troubleshooting Proficient in at least one scripting/programming language ...

Full Stack Engineer - ML/Gen AI

Hiring Organisation
INTEC SELECT LIMITED
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£375 - £450 per day
cloud engineering Chat or Messaging platform integration REST API development CI/CD pipelines Observability (logs, metrics, tracing and performance monitoring) Software architecture and distributed systems/microservices AI/LLM integration, with an understanding of model capabilities and limitations—not just using AI to generate code. Highly ...

DevOps / Application Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £650/day InsideIR35
Engineering or SRE. * Experience supporting business-critical, high-availability applications. * Good understanding of CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and software development lifecycles. * Knowledge of distributed systems, resilience, failover and capacity management. * Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across applications and infrastructure. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. * Proactive approach … following: * Financial Services, Capital Markets or Trading Technology experience. * Exposure to risk, trading or regulatory technology. * Cloud, containers and modern DevOps tooling. * Large-scale distributed or high-performance computing environments. Please apply for immediate interview! CBSbutler is operating and advertising as an Employment Agency for permanent positions ...

Private Cloud Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700/day 700 p/d
technologies Experience with Kafka and event streaming platforms Strong knowledge of private cloud technologies and enterprise virtualisation platforms such as VMware Excellent understanding of distributed systems, networking, scalability and performance engineering Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD toolsets Strong understanding of security,governance and operational ...

Senior Java Engineer - Contract

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£400 - 500 per day
iGaming, online gambling, sportsbook or betting platforms – this is essential. Experience building highly scalable and high-throughput systems. Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems. Experience working with APIs and event-driven architectures. Experience with cloud technologies and modern DevOps practices. Strong understanding of software engineering principles, clean code ...

Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Line Up Aviation
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£41.10/hour
What you'll be doing: The developer shall join a 7-member scrum team as part of a wider program to deliver a management systems for a new Satellite. The developer shall contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle and thus have solid experience in design (particularly … Developing in Spring with Hibernate Good Knowledge of developing REST within HTTPS Experience of developing within a microservice architecture Web Services using RESTful APIs Distributed systems Knowledge and use of software design patterns Agile Development Processes CI/CD delivery techniques Source code management ...

Backend Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Computer Futures
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£523/day
internal platforms and services Take ownership of services throughout the full development lifecycle Improve system scalability, reliability and performance Monitor and optimise production systems through SLIs and SLOs Investigate and resolve issues across customer-facing and internal systems Collaborate with engineers, product teams and business stakeholders Contribute … technical design and architectural decision-making Requirements Strong commercial backend software engineering experience Experience building scalable, high-volume distributed systems Strong understanding of cloud-based development environments Ability to work independently and contribute within a collaborative team Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills Experience working in modern product ...

Senior Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£800 - £890/day Up to £890 Umbrella
7+ years of Java backend development experience. Advanced expertise in Java, Spring Boot and microservices architecture. Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and distributed systems. Experience with Oracle, SQL/NoSQL databases and data modelling. Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ or other event-driven messaging technologies. Strong knowledge … tuning and monitoring. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. The successful candidate will be comfortable leading the design and delivery of enterprise-scale backend systems, resolving complex technical challenges, and driving engineering excellence across modern Java microservices environments. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent ...

Performance Architect

Hiring Organisation
DCV Technologies
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£625 - £700/day - Inside IR35
decisions. Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience: Extensive experience in Performance Architecture, Performance Engineering, and System Optimization. Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and distributed system design. Expertise in defining and managing Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs). Experience creating sizing models, capacity planning strategies, and workload forecasting approaches. Deep … standard monitoring tools. Strong stakeholder management skills, working with CTOs, Enterprise Architects, and senior leadership. Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and large-scale distributed platforms. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and technical decision-making capabilities. Your Responsibilities: Define and govern the end-to-end performance strategy for applications, platforms ...