10 of 10 Contract Distributed Systems Jobs in the South East

Golang Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hirexa Solutions UK
Location
West Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£280 - £300 per day
ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable backend applications and microservices. This role requires hands-on experience with distributed systems, REST APIs, cloud technologies, and modern software engineering practices. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain backend services and microservices using Golang. Build … Cassandra. Knowledge of Docker and containerized applications. Experience with Git version control. Strong understanding of Linux/Unix environments. Experience developing scalable and distributed applications. Cloud & DevOps Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration. Experience with CI/CD tools such ...

Senior Data Engineer - Scala/Spark

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £550 per day
Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and operating large-scale data platforms that support advanced machine learning and recommendation systems used by millions of users globally. This is an opportunity to work on highly complex distributed systems, developing production-grade data pipelines … performance, reliability and operational health of production data pipelines. Develop tooling and infrastructure that supports machine learning workflow execution and deployment. Optimise data processing systems for throughput, scalability and efficiency. Collaborate closely with Data Engineers, ML Engineers and Research teams to deliver high-quality datasets and platform capabilities. Identify ...

Senior Gen AI Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £700 per day
powered applications. The role would suit a strong software engineer with hands-on experience building cloud-native applications, embedding AI capabilities into production systems, and taking ownership across the full delivery lifecycle. Key responsibilities: * Design, build and maintain AI-enabled applications using enterprise GenAI services* Develop production-grade microservices … applications* Ensure applications meet non-functional requirements around security, scalability, resiliency, performance and cost Essential skills: * Strong software engineering background with experience delivering complex distributed systems* Proven experience building and deploying production-grade applications that embed AI capabilities* Strong Python experience* Experience with LangGraph, Strands and DeepEval* Strong ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions. Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles. Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing (TDD/… Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js), backend development (Java or Python), and building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications. Expertise in data engineering & platforms including SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, and integration of data science and analytics. Experience ...

Senior ML Platform Engineer - Robotics

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £750 per day
archival processes* Containerise and orchestrate services to ensure reliable deployment across machines and lab environments* Partner with ML engineers on dataset building, ingestion pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, and high-throughput data workflows* Work with robotics engineers on ROS2 integration, robot data streams, deployment workflows, and hardware-adjacent platform tooling … Improve testing, CI, observability, reliability, and performance across concurrent and IO-heavy systems Essential Skills You must have: * Senior-level software engineering experience, ideally 5+ years* Strong production Python experience* Experience with typing, async/await, threading, multiprocessing, and concurrent workloads* FastAPI or another async Python web framework* Vanilla ...

Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
This is a generalist engineering role suited to someone who values adaptability, enjoys learning new tools, and can contribute across a variety of backend systems and services. You'll work closely with product, data, infrastructure, and frontend teams to design, build, and maintain scalable applications that power critical business … rather than being tied to a single language or framework. Role The Backend Developer will design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems. Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code across multiple programming languages. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality ...

SC Cleared Tech Lead

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£585 - £630/day Inside IR35
event-driven architecture and CQRS-based systems. Core Skills:CQRS (non-negotiable), Event Sourcing, .NET/Java/Python, Azure Service Bus, API Development, Distributed Systems Disclaimer: This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering ...

Senior Architect - E-commerce Transformation

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Competitive salary
initiatives Contribute to the separation of key business platforms , including supporting technical and architectural work Help define approaches across: Customer notifications Delivery and fulfilment systems Provide clarity, structure, and momentum across evolving workstreams What We're Looking For Proven experience as a Senior Architect in complex transformational environments Strong … cross-functional, large-scale transformation programmes Experience in e-commerce, digital, or retail transformation (highly desirable) Good understanding of technology and architecture concepts (especially distributed systems) Ability to manage ambiguity and work effectively across multiple teams Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills Working knowledge of scalable architecture patterns ...

SRE - Contract

Hiring Organisation
Pixelcode Technologies Limited
Location
Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
have hands-on experience designing and deploying observability solutions across complex enterprise environments, with deep expertise in Dynatrace architecture, integrations, alerting, dashboarding, and troubleshooting distributed systems. Key Requirements 8+ years of IT experience with strong expertise in cloud and observability solutions. Expert-level experience designing, deploying, and configuring Dynatrace … complex environments. Hands-on experience with Dynatrace integrations, alerting, dashboard creation, synthetic monitoring, and distributed tracing . Strong experience implementing enterprise-scale monitoring and observability solutions. Deep expertise in AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and CloudFormation. Strong understanding of AWS architecture best practices ...

Lead AI Architect (Enterprise AI)

Hiring Organisation
Computershare flexible Talent
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
include: Define and own the enterprise AI architecture, including model strategy, orchestration frameworks, APIs, and integration standards. Establish architectural patterns for Generative AI, agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and data pipelines at scale. Lead the selection and optimisation of the AI technology stack, balancing capability, cost, risk, and vendor … production. What you will bring to the role: Extensive experience in enterprise or solution architecture, with a strong focus on AI, machine learning, or distributed systems. Proven expertise in Generative AI technologies, including Large Language Models, agentic frameworks, and vector databases. Strong command of at least one major cloud ...