6 of 6 Contract Distributed Systems Jobs in the North West

Software Engineer - Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£70 - £72 per hour
availability streams, real-time messaging, webhooks, and complex data translations-ensuring seamless communication between external platforms and internal microservices. Responsibilities Architect, deploy, and manage distributed backend microservices powering critical third-party integrations. Create reliable, event-driven data flows to process partner product updates, availability matrices, and transactional notifications. Apply … strong distributed systems practices (fault tolerance, retries, rate-limiting, and idempotency) while leveraging metrics and tracing to maintain system health. Own the Lifecycle: Take end-to-end technical ownership-from refining specs and coding to testing, safe releases, and live production monitoring. Essential Proven experience engineering high-scale ...

Back End Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
part of a multi-year programme building a new enterprise knowledge platform from scratch, designed to connect AI services and applications securely with enterprise systems, tools, and data. This is a genuine greenfield opportunity where you'll help shape the architecture and build scalable, resilient services supporting AI agent … Architecture and Security teams What we're looking for Strong backend engineering experience with Java, Python, Node.js or similar Experience with APIs, microservices and distributed systems Understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging Experience with cloud, containers and Kubernetes/OpenShift Knowledge of enterprise security, authentication and authorisation ...

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 ...

Solution Architect - Digital Applications

Hiring Organisation
AMS CWS
Location
Macclesfield, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
architectures with experience in Java and Angular. Experience designing and consuming GraphQL and/or REST APIs. Knowledge of microservices, domain-driven design and distributed systems architecture. Experience with containerised cloud-hosted applications and modern cloud platforms. Understanding of event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging and event-streaming technologies. ...

Technical Delivery Manager

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £487/day
Stories Acceptance Criteria Definition of Ready (DoR) Definition of Done (DoD) Sprint Planning and Retrospectives Proven experience managing cross-functional agile teams operating within distributed and global delivery models. Strong understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability … organizational change and innovation adoption at scale. Experience collaborating with outsourced vendors and external development partners. Understanding of scalable architecture patterns, client-server applications, distributed systems, and backend service design. Demonstrated experience mentoring engineering teams and process improvement functions. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from ...

Technical Delivery Manager

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450/day Insde IR35
practices Experience driving organisational change and innovation initiatives Experience partnering with third-party vendors and external delivery teams Understanding of scalable architecture patterns, distributed systems, and backend service design What you'll get in return £450 per day Long-term contract until December 2026 Hybrid working arrangement ...