1 to 25 of 35 Contract Distributed Systems Jobs in England

Engineering Tech Lead Node.js Architect

Hiring Organisation
Purview Consultancy Services Ltd
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
complex technical challenges. This role requires a hands-on lead er who can drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and architect distributed systems capable of handling enterprise-scale workloads. Key Responsibilities Lead the architecture, design, and development of mission-critical backend applications using Node.js. Design … scalable, secure, and highly available distributed systems and microservices. Drive technical decision-making and define engineering standards across projects. Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, DevOps, QA, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions. Review code, enforce best practices, and ensure maintainability and performance of applications. Mentor ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£490 - £500/day
architectures for enterprise workflow orchestration * Drive modern backend engineering standards, including CI/CD, deployment automation, and operational best practices * Architect durable, fault-tolerant distributed systems with high observability * Develop integration strategies across enterprise APIs, event streams, and downstream systems * Build reusable frameworks, prototypes, and production solutions … software initiatives using LLM frameworks and AWS AI services What you'll bring: * Proven experience with Camunda and/or Temporal.io in backend and distributed systems * Strong Python skills and experience designing production-grade APIs * Expertise in building resilient, fault-tolerant enterprise applications * Knowledge of workflow orchestration, retries ...

Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £500.0 per day + Inside IR35
regulatory requirements. Act as the senior technical escalation point for engineering challenges, controls-related issues, and critical production incidents. Support complex integrations across enterprise systems, risk platforms, controls frameworks, and external applications. Design and guide implementation of scalable integration solutions across APIs, middleware, event-driven platforms, and external systems. … backend software engineering and enterprise integration. Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, middleware solutions, and event-driven architectures. Experience integrating enterprise platforms, risk systems, controls frameworks, and business-critical applications. Strong understanding of regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements within banking or financial services environments. Experience supporting applications impacted ...

Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £500.0 per day + Inside IR35
with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices. Experience with Python and/or other modern backend programming languages. Strong understanding of distributed systems, application resiliency, and operational support. Experience conducting architecture reviews, technical governance, and engineering quality assurance. Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Strong … Financial Services, or large-scale enterprise transformation programmes. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and site reliability practices. Experience supporting geographically distributed engineering teams. Exposure to AI-enabled engineering tools, automation frameworks, or developer productivity tooling. What you need to do now If you're interested ...

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 Full Stack Developer (React, JavaScript & C#.NET)

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£650 per day
/CD Implementation: Collaborate with DevSecOps to optimise CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated testing and deployment. Architecture Contribution: Contribute to event-driven and distributed system designs using technologies like Kafka or Event Hub. Mentorship: Guide junior developers and foster a collaborative atmosphere within a cross-functional agile team. ...

Senior Java Developer / Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£850 - £900 per day
Boot. * Own end-to-end delivery of backend components, from architectural design and coding to deployment and operational support. * Drive architectural decisions for backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and alignment with enterprise standards. * Resolve high-impact technical challenges related to backend performance, data integrity, and distributed system … level backend developers, providing technical guidance and fostering a culture of excellence. * Partner with stakeholders to define system enhancements, integrate with other systems, and implement strategic backend solutions. * Ensure code quality, performance optimization, and scalability of backend applications through rigorous testing and review processes. * Lead the implementation of advanced ...

Contract Software Engineer (Java & Kotlin)

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£350 - £400/day
reviews and contribute to engineering best practices. Improve system reliability, performance and scalability. Work with cloud-native technologies and modern deployment practices. Support production systems and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. Essential Skills & Experience Strong commercial experience with Java and Kotlin. Proven experience developing applications using Spring Boot. Strong … practices, testing and CI/CD. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills. Desirable Experience with Gradle. Experience working within Agile development teams. Knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architectures. Contract Details Initial 2-month contract. Outside IR35. Hybrid working with office attendance in London every Wednesday. Immediate ...

Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Backend Engineer to lead the evolution of a global platform supporting international expansion and acquisition integration. This role focuses on building and scaling transaction systems that enable global commerce, while evolving an existing real-time platform to support new markets. You will address backend capacity constraints and help design … senior engineering role requiring both high-quality delivery and strong technical leadership in ambiguous, high-scale environments. You will be expected to: Design scalable systems with correctness and failure modes considered from the outset Clarify and scope requirements before proposing solutions Make pragmatic trade-offs in system design, avoiding ...

Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Copello
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 840 Daily
currently looking for a Systems Engineer for a contract role in Cheltenham. Please note: suitable candidates must have current, transferable eDV Clearance. This role will also require 3-4 days onsite in Cheltenham. Job title: System Engineer Pay: £840 per day Inside IR35 Location: Cheltenham, 3-4 days … role in delivering complex, high-impact solutions across multidisciplinary teams, supporting projects that matter from nationally significant programmes to cutting-edge digital and systems-led transformations. You ll work in a collaborative, inclusive environment where your expertise helps shape resilient, secure and future-ready systems, while being supported ...

Senior C# Engineer .NET 9, 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
build of a greenfield 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 … 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 ...

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 ...

Observability SME | 1 year | London, UK (Hybrid - 3 days/week in office)

Hiring Organisation
Hamilton Barnes
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 450 - 475 Daily
office) Role Overview We're recruiting for an experienced Observability SME to define, implement, and govern enterprise-wide observability capabilities for cloud-native and distributed applications running on Microsoft Azure, for a leading organisation. The role requires establishing observability standards, ensuring end-to-end visibility across business-critical platforms … enabling proactive monitoring, faster incident resolution, and improved platform reliability through modern observability practices - with deep expertise in Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, SRE, event-driven architecture, and Azure Integration Services. Key Responsibilities Define and implement enterprise observability strategies, standards, and governance frameworks Design and manage observability solutions covering metrics ...

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 ...

Python Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£375 - £400/day
Infrastructure (CNI) . The platform enables the secure exchange of patient and workforce data between healthcare organisations and digital services, helping ensure vital healthcare systems remain resilient, secure and available. This is an opportunity to work on software that has a genuine impact on millions of people while helping … platform engineering practices to build, improve and support a secure, cloud-native environment. Key responsibilities include: Developing high-quality, secure Python applications for complex distributed systems Maintaining and improving code quality across the platform Building, managing and monitoring CI/CD pipelines and code quality gates Ensuring deployments ...

Principal SRE Engineer / Grafana Specialist - (Outside IR35)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£650 - £750 per day + Outside IR35
self-serve their system metrics and traces. Implementation & Enablement: Assist digital engineering teams in implementing synthetic monitoring, health checks, observable CI/CD pipelines, distributed tracing, and cloud-native monitoring patterns. Partner with SRE, DevOps, and engineering teams to embed observability into digital platforms and services. Collaboration & Culture: Promote … least 5 years in SRE, Observability, or DevOps functions. Hands-on proficiency with observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry. Strong knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker). Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity ...

Golang Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Gazelle Global Consulting Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
mentoring developers while working closely with architects and business stakeholders to deliver modern cloud-native platforms. Key Skills Golang development Microservices architecture Azure Cloud Distributed Systems REST API design Document Databases & NoSQL Solution architecture and technical governance Agile technical leadership Kubernetes (AKS) CI/CD and DevOps practices ...

Quality Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Temporary
Salary
£450 - £500/day Up to £500 p/d Inside IR35
principles and tooling Experience with Git/GitLab version control Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum delivery environments Experience testing APIs, microservices and distributed systems Knowledge of functional, integration and non-functional testing Strong communication, stakeholder management and team collaboration skills Nice to have Cucumber/Gherkin Gatling ...

Quality Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Wellington, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 450 - 500 Daily
principles and tooling Experience with Git/GitLab version control Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum delivery environments Experience testing APIs, microservices and distributed systems Knowledge of functional, integration and non-functional testing Strong communication, stakeholder management and team collaboration skills Nice to have Cucumber/Gherkin Gatling ...

Back-end Engineer (contract)

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions
Location
London, Finsbury Square, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£375 - £400/day
months Start date: ASAP, Immediate starter Working Patterns: Full-time, 1 day p/w in London-offices. Essential: Confident working across data infrastructure, distributed systems, APIS and AI-services Proven experience in building/designing scalable backend services Strong experience building and maintaining APIs (REST, GraphQL … Kubernetes or similar container platform experience Familiarity with Django frameworks and IaC (e.g. Terraform) Experience with the deploying and operating ML or AI systems in production. Please reach out to Adam Akhtar at Opus ASAP for more information. ...

DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£400 - £450 per day
contract DevOps Engineer to work on the development of an large scale observability platform, experienced in cloud techologies, infrastracture as code, building and operating distributed systems at scale, proficient in devops engineering, reviewing, writing and testing code, working with source control mechanisms and and deploying infrastructure. Key experience ...

Performance Test Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Brio Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 450 Daily
experience with monitoring andobservability tools including: Splunk AppDynamics Grafana AWS CloudWatch Dynatrace Experience using Jenkins , GitHub , Jira and Confluence . Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems and modern cloud architectures. Experience working within Agile delivery teams. Desirable Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge ...

Performance Test Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Brio Digital
Location
London, Baker Street, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450/day
experience with monitoring andobservability tools including: Splunk AppDynamics Grafana AWS CloudWatch Dynatrace Experience using Jenkins , GitHub , Jira and Confluence . Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems and modern cloud architectures. Experience working within Agile delivery teams. Desirable Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge ...

Software Engineering Tech Lead / Manager - Java

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £700/day Up to £700 per day (Inside IR35)
teams A hands-on background, with deep technical expertise across a range of technologies (Java, Javascript and Azure/GCP for example) including building distributed systems Ability to simplify complex data challenges in areas such as 'match and merge', and 'enhance-transform & load' (ETL) through tooling and navigating ...

Private Cloud Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
eTeam Workforce Limited
Location
Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Daily
VMware or equivalent), Containers & Kubernetes (cluster operations, upgrades, networking, multi-tenancy, policy), Kafka/event streaming platforms (architecture, operations, governance) Strong engineering fundamentals: distributed systems, networking concepts, performance tuning, fault tolerance and capacity planning. Automation mindset with experience in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices (tooling ...