1 to 25 of 38 Contract Distributed Systems Jobs in England

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
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 ...

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 ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£60 - £80 per hour
Team: RegTech (Fintech Business Unit) The Stack Primary: Java (Expert level) & Microservices. Data: Cassandra, Hadoop, MySQL. Cloud: AWS (Kinesis, Step Functions, EC2). Focus: Distributed systems, batch processing, and data integrity. The Mission Build and scale automated KYC/KYP (Know Your Customer/Partner) and regulatory compliance … identity verification, risk assessment, and onboarding for a global partner base. Requirements Experience: 3+ years in server-side software development. Architecture: Building highly scalable distributed systems and data pipelines. Expertise: Unit/Integration testing, architecture reviews, and defining SLOs. Mindset: 'Can-do' attitude; able to bridge technical problems ...

OpenShift SRE SME

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
focus on automation. Work and collaborate across teams, such as Applications, Hardware, and Network. Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies. Develop systems, primarily in Shell scripting, YAML, Ruby, Python and Go language, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation. Establish and enforce SRE best practices through … call rotation. Your Profile Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience Hands-on experience with OpenShift virtualization and Kubernetes administration. Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains. Experience managing a production service with RedHat, Windows and ESXi. Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking. ...

Neo4j Aura (Cloud Graph Database) Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Unitech Consultancy Services Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
with strong Neo4j Aura expertise to design, build, and operate scalable graph-based data platforms in the cloud. You will work on high-impact systems that leverage managed Neo4j AuraDB for Real Time insights, relationships, and complex data modelling. Key Responsibilities: Design and implement graph data models using Neo4j … AuraDB (Professional/Enterprise) Build and optimise Cypher queries for performance and scalability Integrate Neo4j Aura with cloud-native applications (REST, GraphQL, event-driven systems) Manage data ingestion pipelines (Kafka, Spark, ETL tools, APIs) Monitor, tune, and troubleshoot Neo4j Aura performance and availability Implement security, access control, and data ...

Application Developer

Hiring Organisation
VANLOQ LIMITED
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
permissions Support CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and validation of IAM policies and API behaviour Troubleshoot identity, access, and API issues across distributed systems Collaborate with security teams on audits, compliance, and incident investigations Produce clear technical documentation and reusable components Required Experience Strong experience building identity ...

Senior Ruby Developer - EU Based

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
cloud optimisation initiatives What We’re Looking For Strong commercial experience as a Senior Ruby or Ruby on Rails Engineer Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-based application design Extensive hands-on experience with AWS Solid background in building scalable APIs, microservices, and backend systems Familiarity ...

Senior Data Architect - Quantexa Certified (Mandatory)

Hiring Organisation
PSD Technology Contracts Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
Hadoop, HDFS) Proven experience with core Quantexa capabilities: Data Ingestion Pipelines Entity Resolution configuration Scoring logic implementation Contextual Network generation Solid understanding of distributed systems, data modelling, and performance optimisation Ability to write clean, production-grade, maintainable code Strong communication skills and experience working in cross-functional agile ...

FX e Trading Senior Full Stack Engineer (React TypeScript + Java)

Hiring Organisation
Atrium Workforce Solutions Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£759 - £900 per day
TypeScript, modern tooling (bundlers, linting, testing frameworks). Backend: Core Java, Spring Boot (or similar), multithreading/concurrency, performance tuning. Experience designing and operating distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architectures, messaging/streaming). Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, OS). Proven … experience in e-trading or real-time financial systems (FX highly desirable), including familiarity with market data, order flows, and execution workflows. Hands-on with CI/CD, containerization, cloud/on-prem deployments, and observability. Comfort evaluating and integrating AI coding tools into daily development workflows. Excellent communication ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer FX e Trading London

Hiring Organisation
Atrium Global
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £750 to £900 per day
TypeScript, modern tooling (bundlers, linting, testing frameworks). Backend: Core Java, Spring Boot (or similar), multithreading/concurrency, performance tuning. Experience designing and operating distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architectures, messaging/streaming). Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, OS). Proven … experience in e-trading or real-time financial systems (FX highly desirable), including familiarity with market data, order flows, and execution workflows. Hands-on with CI/CD, containerization, cloud/on-prem deployments, and observability. Comfort evaluating and integrating AI coding tools into daily development workflows. Excellent communication ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer – FX e-trading – Java / React

Hiring Organisation
Atrium Workforce Solutions Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£759 - £900 per day
TypeScript, modern tooling (bundlers, linting, testing frameworks). Backend: Core Java, Spring Boot (or similar), multithreading/concurrency, performance tuning. Experience designing and operating distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architectures, messaging/streaming). Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, OS). Proven … experience in e-trading or real-time financial systems (FX highly desirable), including familiarity with market data, order flows, and execution workflows. Hands-on with CI/CD, containerization, cloud/on-prem deployments, and observability. Comfort evaluating and integrating AI coding tools into daily development workflows. Excellent communication ...

Senior Go Developer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
technology business on a contract basis. This organisation is recognised for its engineering excellence and is seeking a Senior Go Developer to help scale distributed systems and deliver high-performance solutions. In this role, the Senior Go Developer will design, develop, and implement data-intensive applications across … full engineering lifecycle. You'll architect and deliver microservices-based systems using Go (Golang), AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Kafka, working closely with cross-functional teams to build scalable, reliable, and resilient platforms. You'll also play a key role in optimising system performance, improving reliability, and ensuring scalability, while ...

Java Developer-Golang

Hiring Organisation
Qualient Technology Solutions UK Limited
Location
Burgess Hill, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£300 - £400/day
internals and object-oriented design principles Experience with frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot Familiarity with REST APIs, microservices architecture, and distributed systems Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) Knowledge of version control systems (Git) Understanding of unit testing ...

Senior DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 per day
Contribute to the design, development and operation of a large-scale observability platform Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code Work across distributed systems at scale Write, review and test code as part of DevOps engineering practices Manage deployments and work with modern source-control workflows ...

Java Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Line Up Aviation
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£55/hour
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 … Issue tracking systems (such as Jira) UML/SysML using Enterprise Architect or similar Ability to self-motivate and to work well within a team environment. Ability to promote innovation in self and others Ability to interact with internal & external stakeholders in a confident and professional manner ...

Software Engineer - Java

Hiring Organisation
Empresaria UK Ltd
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
8+) Spring Boot/Spring Framework, including development with Hibernate Experience building RESTful APIs over HTTPS Hands-on experience with microservice architectures Understanding of distributed systems Knowledge and practical use of software design patterns Experience working in Agile development processes Familiarity with CI/CD delivery techniques Source … innovation and continuous improvement Confident and professional communicator, able to engage with internal and external stakeholders Why Join? Work on cutting-edge satellite systems and complex technical challenges Be part of a collaborative, experienced Scrum team Opportunity to influence design decisions and technical direction Strong focus on quality, automation ...

Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Belcan
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£55/hour
global leader in aeronautics, space, and advanced technology is seeking a skilled Software Developer to join a highperforming Scrum team working on the management systems for a new satellite. The organisation brings together thousands of passionate innovators dedicated to making the world more connected, safer, and smarter. Its culture … Java (version 8+) Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and Hibernate Experience developing RESTful services over HTTPS Handson experience with microservice architectures and distributed systems Solid understanding of software design patterns Familiarity with Agile development processes Experience with CI/CD pipelines Proficiency with Git for source ...

Lead Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
Croydon, Surrey, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £500 per day
large-scale public sector program. This unique development opportunity involves creating and implementing solutions for our portfolio of biometric products, supporting live systems, and diagnosing incidents. You will be part of a collaborative team that prides itself on engineering the best possible Java code. Key Responsibilities: Develop and implement … solutions for biometric products. Support live systems and diagnose incidents. Collaborate with the team to ensure high-quality Java code. Essential Skills and Experience: Proficiency in Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring DataJPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, Quartz, SQL Database (PostgreSQL), JPA (Hibernate), REST and SOAP Web Services, Messagingservice ...

AWS Architect

Hiring Organisation
Fairfield Consultancy Services Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £625 per day
modernization frameworks. Migration & Modernization Expertise Proven experience leading end-to-end large-scale migration programs . Strong understanding of application architectures (monolith, microservices, distributed systems). Skilled in designing containerization & orchestration strategies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS). Leadership & Communication Ability to influence senior stakeholders and articulate architecture decisions. Strong ...

Back End Developer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Croydon, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£520 - £570/day
high-impact project delivering scalable, reliable backend services. You'll work with modern Java-based technologies in a collaborative, delivery-focused environment, contributing to systems that are critical, secure, and built to scale. This is a contract role offering long-term stability, flexibility through remote working, and the opportunity … work on meaningful, production-grade systems. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain robust backend services using Java Develop and integrate event-driven systems using Kafka Build and consume REST APIs to support internal and external services Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and other engineers Write clean, maintainable ...

Java Developer (SC + NPPV3 Cleared)

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Limited
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
450-500/day (Outside IR35)
Microservices, REST, SOAP Web Services, JPA (Hibernate). Experience of developing Java solutions for large-scale integration projects including: microservices, web services, messaging + distributed systems. Connecting processes across multiple systems using message brokers like ActiveMQ. Robust experience of Web Services, SOAP, RESTful), Containerization (Docker), and testing frameworks … Mockito, JUnit, Powermock, DBUnit, JMock, TestContainers). Supporting live systems + diagnose/resolving incidents. Continuous Integration methodologies such as: Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Git + Stash Repository. AWS Cloud Services (EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, Cloudwatch, KMS). Any experience of Linux, Atlassian products, open-source DBs, PostgreSQL ...

.Net Developer E-Trading & Front Office

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£0 per annum
Server Must have experience with multi-threading programming Experience with asynchronous and event driven programming Experience developing real-time applications Familiar with building distributed systems Knowledge of networks and topologies Firm grounding of common algorithms Excellent oral and written communication skills Proactive team player with ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
New Works, Telford, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £500 per annum
operational hygiene, and reducing manual effort Nice to Have Experience improving operational maturity in growing engineering teams Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, routing, and distributed systems Familiarity with monitoring/alerting best practices If your looking for a new challenge and this sounds like you, we'd love ...

Observability Architect

Hiring Organisation
Fairfield Consultancy Services Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £625 per day
Logging platforms: Splunk, ELK/Opensearch, CloudWatch Logs Metrics & telemetry: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry Event management: ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Moogsoft, BigPanda Strong knowledge of instrumentation for distributed systems, microservices, containers (EKS, ECS), serverless workloads, and legacy systems. Migration & Architecture Skills Proven experience supporting large-scale on-prem to AWS migrations ...