1 to 25 of 28 Permanent Distributed Systems Jobs in Central London

Backend Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Backend Software Engineer (Go/Node.js Distributed Systems) Remote/Hybrid to £120k + Equity Are you an experienced Backend Software Engineer who enjoys building distributed systems, real-time infrastructure and solving complex scalability challenges? You could be progressing your career at a high growth technology … Engineer, you'll join the team responsible for the core messaging platform that underpins the company's real-time infrastructure. Working on highly scalable distributed systems, you'll design and build new platform capabilities, improve performance and reliability and solve complex engineering problems at scale. You'll contribute ...

Principal Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
+ 20% Flexible Benefits Package Are you an experienced Principal Engineer with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems and database platforms? We're looking for a hands-on technical leader to help shape the future of our platform engineering capability. This is an opportunity … lead complex engineering initiatives, define technical strategy, and act as a subject matter expert across AWS infrastructure, distributed databases, Terraform and cloud-native platform services. You'll work closely with architects, engineers and senior stakeholders to design resilient, scalable and secure platform solutions while mentoring engineers and driving engineering ...

Senior Software Engineer - Kubernetes Control Plane / Platform as a Service (BPaaS)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
that interacts with the Kubernetes API (client-go, controller-runtime) Own features end-to-end, from CRD design through implementation to rollout Reason about distributed systems concerns: consistency, failure modes, leader election, and graceful degradation Collaborate with other platform and infrastructure teams to integrate with Bloomberg-wide systems …/or Python Experience with Kubernetes internals, not just deploying to K8s, but extending it (e.g. operators, controllers, CRDs, admission webhooks) Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (consistency, reconciliation, failure handling) Curiosity about how things work under the hood and willingness to dig into unfamiliar systems A degree ...

Python Technical Lead FinTech

Hiring Organisation
Run-Time Group Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
products. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, and strategic decision-making. Required Skills & Experience Python Expertise 7+ years building production systems with Python. Microservices Strong experience designing and scaling distributed microservice architectures. Cloud Platforms Deep knowledge of AWS/GCP/Azure services. Databases … Proficiency with PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, or similar. Messaging Systems Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or event-streaming platforms. CI/CD Strong understanding of automated testing, deployment pipelines, and observability. Leadership Proven ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders, and deliver complex projects. FinTech Domain Knowledge Experience in payments, trading, banking ...

Global Banking & Markets - Software Engineer - Vice President - London

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Markets, while simultaneously driving significant operational efficiencies. The program follows an engineering-principles-first approach and represents a rare chance to define the foundational systems of a world‐leading financial institution from the ground up. As trading volumes continue to accelerate, we are building a small team of ambitious … years to come. What You Will Do Design, build, and operate high‐availability, multi‐region, cloud‐native services with security and comprehensive observability (metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging) built in at every layer. Develop event‐driven architectures, multi‐stage processing pipelines, and optimized data paths for high‐throughput trade ...

AI Application Architect

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
with Avanade Regions on both direct and indirect deals, supporting them during solutioning phases as well as during critical delivery phases. Whether modernizing legacy systems or building solutions from scratch, you will apply agentic AI to transform how projects are executed end‐to‐end. What you’ll do Architect … C# as a primary language; hands‐on experience with Python, Rust, and TypeScript/JavaScript. Proven delivery experience applying agentic AI to modernise legacy systems or build new solutions. Hands‐on expertise with agentic AI frameworks such as AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, or equivalents. Ability to apply AI agents ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
with business outcomes. Ideally, you'll bring Strong experience developing software using C#/.NET and object-oriented design principles. Experience designing and building distributed systems, APIs and scalable applications. Knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures and cloud-native development, ideally within Azure . Experience with CI/ ...

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
actively investing in. The work ahead on our Platform team isn’t about managing data or curating pipelines; it’s about building the foundational systems that everything else runs on — the kind of systems where the failure modes matter, the latency budgets are real, and getting it wrong … visible consequences for hundreds of enterprise customers. We’re looking for a Staff+-level engineer who has built production platform systems at scale before — not just consumed them. You’ve designed systems under load, reasoned carefully about failure, and made your colleagues’ lives better by giving them something ...

Apigee Lead Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
Hands-on experience with Docker. Experience in setting up and managing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines Understanding of build and deployment methodologies for distributed systems Solid experience with enterprise-grade applications and systems Proficiency in Node.js-based web applications Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Implementation ...

AI Platform/ DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
The Portfolio Group
Location
City of London, London, Castle Baynard, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70000 - £100000/annum + Benefits
into production-ready, well-architected platform components What we're looking for Proven experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering roles delivering production-grade systems on AWS Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, specifically with EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and ECS (Elastic Container Service) in production environments Strong Terraform experience … with vector databases or search infrastructure (OpenSearch, Algolia) is a strong advantage Python proficiency for scripting, automation, and deploying production services Solid grasp of distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, microservices, and API design Ownership mindset - comfortable operating autonomously across reliability, performance, cost, and security Why join ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90,000
across the full stack (Fastify microservices, React/MUI, shared TypeScript packages in a pnpm monorepo) Design and evolve backend services for high-volume, distributed screening workloads Build event-driven pipelines (AWS SNS/SQS) with idempotent consumers, DLQs and batch processing Design clean APIs and contribute to architecture … identity, KYC and payments platforms (e.g. Senzing, Auth0, Stripe) Own services end-to-end: API design, MongoDB data modelling, testing, observability, deployment Build secure systems (JWT/OIDC, fine-grained authorisation, IDOR protection, audit logging) Write automated tests (Vitest, Playwright) as part of everyday development Mentor engineers through code ...

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
when they imagine cutting-edge AI work. That's exactly why this role is interesting. CFC's Data & AI unit is building production agentic systems that automate complex underwriting decisions - not chatbots, not copilots bolted onto legacy workflows, but autonomous multi-step AI agents that reason over unstructured data … goal is to multiply engineering delivery by an order of magnitude: not by cutting corners or generating throwaway code, but by designing robust systems and processes that let agents handle well-defined work while engineers focus on architecture, design, and the problems that actually require human judgment. This ...

Lead Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Azure, or GCP) Strong infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, etc.) Experience with CI/CD, Linux, containerisation, and Kubernetes Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or streaming platforms Working knowledge of RBAC, IAM, secrets management, and operational security practices, ideally in a regulated environment Strong … automation/scripting ability and systems-thinking approach Comfortable operating in a scaling, growth-stage environment Key Competencies Automation-first, ownership-driven mindset Strong communication and cross-team collaboration Calm under operational pressure Ability to simplify complexity and improve engineering flow We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome ...

Software Engineer, Trading - Cumberland Systematic

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
develop the full stack needed to enable a global trading operation with high availability requirements. You will be expected to design and develop trading systems, market data connectivity, execution algorithms, research infrastructure, monitoring and observability tooling, and integrations with DRW’s core services. The team’s existing systems … with researchers, traders, and other software engineers Provide on-call support as needed Qualifications 5+ years of professional C++ experience Built complex, mission-critical systems in modern C++ that are maintainable and safely refactorable A deep understanding of concurrency concepts and their applications in C++ and Python A working ...

Senior Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
away from digging into a legacy codebase. You love to work in a complex problem domain that is implemented with simple software systems You have an interest or experience in Functional Programming, microservices and/or event-driven architecture You are a collaborator - you encourage pairing and believe that … Serverless Strong fundamental programming skills (data structures, algorithms) Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken An interest (or experience) in any of Functional Programming, Distributed Systems or Event-Driven Architectures (using Apache Kafka) Knowledge of decision engines wanted but not essential Able to architect custom AI solutions ...

Solutions Architect

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
ensuring delivery teams adhere to core technical principles. Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership & Governance Collaboratively define and maintain the long‐term architectural roadmap for digital systems Maintain a holistic view of the service ecosystem to identify technical dependencies, risks, and opportunities Represent architecture in governance forums, supporting prioritisation, risk discussions … Significant experience as a technical or solution architect in complex enterprise environments Engineering Foundation: Strong background in modern application architectures, including microservices, APIs, and distributed systems Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands‐on experience with at least one major cloud provider (ideally AWS), including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and security control ...

Principal Software Engineer - International

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
record of strategic thinking, technical innovation and successful large‐scale delivery. Strong expertise in software engineering fundamentals, including clean code, clean architecture, design patterns, distributed systems and solution design for highly complex, business‐critical platforms. Demonstrable experience shaping technology strategy and implementation approaches, ensuring alignment with business objectives … Server, MongoDB and Redis OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace Desirable Experience Experience within retail, international commerce, supply chain or logistics environments, including warehouse management systems, fulfilment platforms, marketplace aggregators, partner integrations and complex customer or partner ecosystems. Experience working with third‐party vendors, system integrators and outsourced delivery models, with ...

DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80000 - £100000/annum
OpenTelemetry, Datadog) - Understanding of security, performance optimisation, and scalability Desirable Skills - Experience working on AI/ML platforms or deployments - Exposure to large-scale distributed systems - AWS certifications In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited ...

Software Engineer, Codex Enterprise

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
iteratively train the model to be great at complex software engineering tasks. The Codex team is responsible for building state-of-the‐art AI systems that can write code, reason about software, and act as intelligent agents for developers and non‐developers alike. We operate across research, engineering, product … organizations. Those insights will drive what you build across product, infrastructure, deployment patterns, and ecosystem capabilities for all teams using Codex. This role owns systems end‐to‐end: from architecture and implementation to production operations with a strong bias for both quality and velocity. In this role, you will ...

Lead Software Engineer - ThousandEyes

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
teammates evolve their skills and practice through practical mentoring and knowledge sharing. Minimum Qualifications Expert‐level understanding of Java or Kotlin. Wide experience working distributed systems especially using Apache Kafka. Strong architecture and design skills including data and API modelling. On‐the‐job experience with agentic AI development ...

Software Development Manager

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
across a complex technology landscape. To succeed, you will bring strong experience in leading development teams (7+ years) within agile environments, ideally across large, distributed systems. You will have a deep technical foundation in the Microsoft stack, including the .NET framework (versions .NET Core, 8 and beyond), SQL Server ...

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
What we're looking for Senior Software Engineering experience – C#/Python/SQL Strong technical depth in C# and full‐stack debugging across distributed systems Domain knowledge of investment operations, asset management workflows, or financial data platforms Comfortable with configuration‐driven platforms; experience with data integration ...

Senior Kubernetes Control Plane Engineer - BPaaS Platform

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
implement operators, extend Kubernetes, and own features end-to-end in a multi-tenant platform. This role emphasizes Go/Python production code and distributed-systems thinking. The team focuses on automating fleet-wide operations across many clusters. It is a collaborative environment that values open-source contributions ...

Lead Data Architect - News Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
definition. Experience designing architectures for low‐latency, high‐throughput systems. Experience with streaming and event‐driven architectures. Familiarity with cloud‐native data platforms and distributed systems. Ability to work independently, lead through influence, and communicate ideas clearly. Bonus: Knowledge of news data standards such as NewsML‐G2 or similar ...

Principal Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 100,000 Annual
+ 20% Flexible Benefits Package Are you an experienced Principal Engineer with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems and database platforms? We're looking for a hands-on technical leader to help shape the fu click apply for full job details ...