14 of 14 Remote/Hybrid Contract Distributed Systems Jobs

AI Native Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500/day 500/day (Outside IR35)
Native Systems Engineer 6 Month Contract London (Hybrid) £500/day (Outside IR35) AI Native Systems Engineer needed for a 6 Month Rolling Contract based in London (Hybrid). Start ASAP ideally September 2026. Hybrid Working – 2-3 days/week remote (WFH) + 2-3 days/…/day (Outside IR35). Working with a global IT Consultancy supporting the client's transition towards delivery models utilising AI agents to streamline systems software + operations: AI Native Systems Engineer is a technical leadership role designing AI-enabled, complex cloud-native + data-intensive systems ...

Principal Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £600 per day + Inside IR-35
Remote Working | Occasional Travel to London We're looking for a Principal Developer to join a major engineering programme delivering large-scale, cloud-native systems within AWS. This is a hands-on technical leadership role suited to an experienced engineer who enjoys remaining close to the code while helping … decisions, technical governance and live service operations. What You'll Be Doing Leading the design and development of large-scale cloud-native applications. Delivering distributed, event-driven microservices-based solutions. Providing technical leadership and direction across multiple teams. Collaborating with architects, security specialists and senior stakeholders. Acting ...

Senior Architect Private Cloud

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day Inside IR35 via Umbrella
with deep hands-on expertise in at least two of the following: Kubernetes/Containers , Kafka/Event Streaming , or VMware/Virtualization . Distributed Systems: Proven background in designing secure, fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed systems within regulated enterprise environments. DevOps & IaC: Practical experience with ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
IO Associates
Location
Bath, Somerset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£500 - 550 per day
working on Design, build and operate reliable, scalable backend services Own areas of the platform, including architecture and technical direction Build resilient APIs and distributed systems within a regulated financial environment Work with AWS serverless technologies , including Lambda, SQS, EventBridge and API Gateway Work with MongoDB and document … contribute to engineering standards and best practice Key Skills Strong Node.js & TypeScript Strong system design and architecture AWS & Serverless MongoDB/document databases Distributed systems, observability and incident management CI/CD and production operations Experience working in a regulated environment , ideally FinTech or financial services Comfortable owning ...

Senior AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
MarkIT Placements
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £700 to £900 per day
experience IR35: Outside IR35 Start Date: Immediate About the Role We are working with a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing advanced AI systems for organisations operating in complex, high-stakes environments. The business is looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to take genuine technical ownership … production-grade agentic AI systems. This is a builder's role rather than an integration role . You will design and implement sophisticated AI systems from the ground up, make architecture-level decisions, write production-quality software and own features through to deployment. The focus is on turning rapidly ...

Senior Java Developer - o/s IR35 - Hybrid - 18 month cx

Hiring Organisation
IO Associates
Location
West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£375 - 400 per day
nior Java Developer a major retailer is urgently seeking Senior Java Developer to woprk in a globally distributed engineering team building a next-generation, scalable fulfilment platform supporting both manual and automated/robotic warehouse operations. The platform powers customer order fulfilment across multiple geographies and product categories, using … optimise picking, marshalling, dispatch and warehouse workflows. This is a greenfield development project, offering the opportunity to work on highly scalable, mission-critical systems and have a direct impact on operational efficiency and customer experience. What You'll Do Design and develop high-performance Java applications and microservices Build ...

Senior Java Architect - Payments

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
modern engineering practices Architect payment solutions supporting real-time payments, cross-border transactions, settlement, reconciliation, and regulatory requirements Design integration patterns across enterprise systems, third-party providers, and banking platforms Drive iterative delivery, stakeholder engagement, demonstrations, and technical progress reporting Collaborate with Business, Integration, Data, and DevOps Architects … Financial Services, or other highly regulated environments Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise-scale backend development Strong knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems Experience designing event-driven solutions using Kafka or similar messaging technologies Strong understanding of API-first architecture, REST services, and enterprise integration ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £800/day
headless, API-first and composable commerce MACH Architecture Strong practical experience with: Microservices API-first design Cloud-native SaaS Headless architecture Event-driven and distributed systems Integration resilience and failure handling TypeScript/Node.js Strong hands-on TypeScript and Node.js development Ability to read, debug, review and write …/cart and checkout Customer journeys Promotions Payments Order management Experience integrating commerce platforms with CMS, PIM, payment, search, promotions, customer and order management systems is highly desirable. DevOps/SRE/Operational Engineering Strong experience across: CI/CD and deployment automation Infrastructure and configuration as code Automated ...

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. ...

Full Stack Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
IntaPeople
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £570/day
proven track record of building backend services and APIs Experience delivering solutions across both backend and frontend technologies, with an understanding of how systems fit together end-to-end A quality-first approach to software engineering, including automated testing, code reviews and maintainable design principles Strong communication and collaboration … frontend technologies such as React, Angular or Vue Experience working with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices Exposure to distributed systems, microservices or event-driven architectures Experience mentoring, coaching or supporting the development of other engineers Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools ...

Senior C# IAM Developer - Auth0, CIAM, AWS - Outside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Smart Sourcer Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £700 to £750 per day
flows, anomaly detection, and abuse prevention Contribute to internal security standards, policies, and incident response readiness What You Bring: 10+ years experience building production systems in C# & .NET Deep knowledge of Auth0 (Actions, Rules, Hooks, Universal Login, MFA, RBAC, custom claims) Solid understanding of OAuth2 , OIDC , SAML … grasp of secure coding principles: input validation, secrets management, least privilege, secure session/token handling Ability to design and review threat models for distributed systems Comfortable working in high-autonomy, high-ownership environments Bonus: experience with Terraform, CI/CD security, or penetration testing Why Join ...

Cloud Platform Architect (Private Cloud)

Hiring Organisation
Ixceed Solutions Ltd
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
cluster operations networking upgrades multitenancy policy management observability and workload onboarding Strong Kafka architecture operations governance security and capacity planning experience Deep understanding of Distributed Systems Networking Fault Tolerance Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning Experience with Infrastructure as Code IaC and CICD practices Strong understanding of Security Controls ...

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 ...