1 to 25 of 169 Permanent Distributed Systems Jobs in London

Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems Engineer)

Hiring Organisation
TechChain Talent
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Backend Engineer: Distributed Systems Specialist Location: New York or London (Hybrid) Salary: $300,000 – $350,000 USD About Us We’re a stealth-mode infrastructure venture building next-gen primitives for decentralized execution. Our mission: rethink how distributed systems scale, sync, and self-heal — with … focus on performance, modularity, and cryptographic integrity. Our team includes protocol veterans, systems engineers, and cryptography researchers pushing the limits of what’s possible in Web3 infra. The Role We’re hiring a Backend Engineer with deep distributed systems expertise to help architect and optimize our core ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Burns Sheehan
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform 💸Up to £130,000 per annum plus bonus plus stock 🏠Central London office 🖱️Golang, Rust, C, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Native, Distributed systems... Are you a Lead Software Engineer with extensive knowledge of building distributed systems? Looking … Lead Software Engineer: Tech agnostic but preferable experience working with Golang, Rust, Java and/or C/C++. In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, building solutions at scale where performance, reliability and availability are key considerations. Confident in leading the definition and creation of solutions from ...

Senior Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter LTD
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
internal compute frameworks that underpin their trading and research platforms. This is a high-impact role, working at the intersection of software engineering and distributed systems, with the opportunity to build scalable tools and frameworks used across the business. What youll do: Design, develop, and maintain performant, reliable … tools and platforms that streamline workflows across investment and technology teams Contribute to code reviews and best practices, improving overall development quality Work across distributed systems, containers, and automation pipelines to deliver scalable solutions What were looking for: 6+ years professional software development experience Strong proficiency in high ...

Technical Solutions Engineer - Deep-Tech AI Start-up

Hiring Organisation
Urban Digital Recruitment Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
retail estates. They’re hiring a Technical Solutions Engineer, not a TAM, not a PM, not an implementation role. Think: deep troubleshooting, edge deployments, distributed systems, containers, logs, Linux, cloud , and full technical ownership of AI models running across thousands of PoS devices . If you love pulling … systems apart, debugging across multiple layers, and being the technical face of a cutting-edge AI product, this is for you. What You’ll Be Doing Own the technical success of enterprise deployments across thousands of PoS + edge devices Troubleshoot end-to-end: AI model behaviour, device integrations ...

Head of Engineering (AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
South London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
deep observability, and human-in-the-loop controls where required. We are looking for a Head of Engineering to scale these production-grade agentic systems, strengthen platform reliability, and lead global engineering teams to deliver a secure, highly reliable, and operationally mature SaaS platform. This role sits … intersection of AI-first engineering, distributed systems, and customer impact, working closely with the leadership team, customer success, development, DevOps, and security teams to ensure engineering accelerates, rather than blocks, sustainable growth. This is not a maintenance role. This is a build, scale, and lead role. Why This ...

Technical Solutions Engineer – Deep-Tech AI (RetailTech / Computer Vision)

Hiring Organisation
Urban Digital Recruitment Ltd
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
deployed across 1,000+ Tier 1 retail stores globally . Their platform powers real-time computer vision and PoS automation across large, distributed retail environments. This is production-grade AI operating at significant scale. They’re hiring a Technical Solutions Engineer to take full technical ownership of enterprise deployments … technically). This is not a TAM, not a PM, and not an implementation role. This role is for engineers who enjoy deep troubleshooting, systems thinking, and hands-on ownership across complex, live environments. If you like pulling systems apart, debugging across devices, networks, cloud services ...

Senior Software Engineer, Trading Systems

Hiring Organisation
Ripple
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
responsibility from Day 1. You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact and have the opportunity to drive the architectural roadmap, whilst looking … breadth of trading strategies and products. Building towards an event-driven architecture to connect the logical building blocks and provide integrated communication between trading systems and to other partners. Continuing to support and complement Ripple’s Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units WHAT YOU’LL DO: Be an ambitious ...

Senior Software Engineer - Quant Firm

Hiring Organisation
Dex
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
technical challenge. What You’ll Work On Architect Low-Latency Infrastructure: Design and implement the critical path for trading execution, building order management systems and market connectivity layers where performance is measured in microseconds. Scale Data Pipelines: Engineer elegant, distributed systems capable of ingesting and processing petabytes … performance across networking, I/O, and compute layers, squeezing maximum efficiency out of hardware. Build World-Class Observability: Create robust monitoring and telemetry systems to provide real-time insights into pipeline health, trading activity, and model behavior. Work with the Best: Work side-by-side with world-class ...

Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++ / Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000.

Hiring Organisation
IT Graduate Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£55,000 - £77,000 per annum, OTE
Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++/Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000 | Hybrid (London/Remote) Build technology that powers real trading. Join a high-performance engineering team developing low-latency, resilient backend systems used in live trading environments. You’ll work on complex technical challenges from … Quant-Engineering tracks within 12–24 months. What You’ll Do Design, build, and optimise backend components of real-time trading and risk systems Develop clean, efficient, high-performance code in C++ and Java Work closely with traders, quants, and senior engineers to deliver new features Solve complex problems ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Orbis Group
Location
South London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
scale the engineering organization responsible for delivering the company's core risk platform. You'll define technical direction across architecture, data infrastructure, analytics systems, and compute pipelines, while integrating emerging intelligence-driven capabilities such as automated risk scoring, alerting, reporting, and anomaly detection. You'll work cross-functionally with … technical leader in customer evaluations, deployments, and audits. Technical Skills & Required Expertise The role requires deep hands-on architectural and technical leadership across distributed systems, data platforms, and analytics tooling. Languages & Backend Python, Go (Golang), TypeScript Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API-driven architectures Data ...

AI Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
capabilities that underpin AI observability and governance across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering . You will develop core components of the platform, contribute to its evolution, and ensure our AI systems … capture metrics such as: Model performance, drift, and degradation Operational and service health Security posture and policy adherence Guardrail compliance for ML and GenAI systems Governance and risk indicators Implement observability tooling using logging, metrics, tracing, and event-driven patterns. Apply secure-by-design principles, strong IAM practices ...

Machine Learning Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Skills Alliance
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
modern foundation models. You'll work at the intersection of ML research, infrastructure, and product engineering - turning cutting‐edge model code into scalable, reliable systems used in real‐world applications. This is a high‐ownership role suited for someone who loves distributed systems, multi‐GPU scaling, model … iteration. What You'll Do Build and optimize training & inference pipelines for large models (Transformers, SSMs, Diffusion, etc.) Scale workloads across multi‐GPU and distributed systems Optimize model performance, latency, memory usage, and throughput Productionize research code into robust, repeatable systems Work closely with researchers to convert ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
GTreasury
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer Lead complex engineering work | Azure | .NET | Distributed Systems At GTreasury, we build software that sits at the heart of the CFO’s office. Our SaaS platform handles complex financial workflows at global scale - and we’re investing heavily in the next phase of growth. … build it, you run it) Influence architecture, code quality, and engineering standards Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decision-making Support production systems in a mature DevOps environment 👀 What You Bring 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience Strong expertise in .NET and SQL-based systems Experience building ...

Java Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Kneu Health
Location
West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£60,000
scaling across the UK and US with proven outcomes and growing demand. The Role As a Backend Engineer , youll build the secure, scalable systems that power Kneus products. Youll work on services and infrastructure that clinicians rely on for decision-making, enable patients to access impactful tools … maintain backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable Design and develop REST APIs for mobile and/or web applications Contribute to distributed systems and microservice architectures Support database design (SQL) and backend architecture decisions Improve release processes and deployment workflows Collaborate closely with engineering and data ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Native
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
approach to accurate database reasoning. About the role This is a founding Platform Engineer role, with the opportunity to shape Native’s infrastructure and systems architecture from day one. You will build the platform that turns cutting-edge research into reliable, production-grade systems. Design, build, and operate … core platform that powers research and production workloads Productionise research systems into robust, scalable services Build internal platforms and tooling for researchers and engineers Own compute, storage, networking, and deployment infrastructure Design and operate CI/CD, observability, and reliability systems Think deeply about performance, isolation, fault tolerance ...

Junior C++ Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
This role sits within a high-performing engineering group responsible for building and supporting the core systems that underpin real-time trading activity. The successful candidate will work across the full software development lifecycle, contributing to the design, build, deployment, and optimisation of highly scalable, performance-critical applications. … Responsibilities Build, test, and enhance high-performance trading systems using C++ and Python Translate quantitative models and trading logic into robust production-ready software Develop internal tools and interfaces used directly by front-office trading teams Improve market data ingestion, exchange connectivity, and real-time data flows Contribute ...

Rust/C++ Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Rust, C++, Data Structures, Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Multithreading McGregor Boyall are partnered with a leading quant investment manager hiring in London. The fund implements a tech-centric approach to trading: computer science and quant finance have always been core to the fund's identity as they continue … execute the market across all liquid assets. The Data Infrastructure team are seeking a software developer with good knowledge of multithreaded, distributed systems. The fund is highly data-driven and this role will offer significant exposure to critical systems within the company. Lots of variation and a chance ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
learning to price 50,000+ instruments across equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, and crypto. You’ll take ownership of building and owning the core systems that power trading and research across the firm — from corporate actions and fundamentals to index data. This is not about hoarding alternative data … reliable, business-critical datasets that the entire firm depends on. What you’ll do Build and optimise automated data ingestion pipelines Own and improve distributed systems used firm-wide Apply statistical and algorithmic techniques to improve data quality Work closely with internal users to ship impactful improvements Operate ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £150,000 per annum
complex, data-driven platforms. This role requires someone who can lead multi-disciplinary teams, improve engineering execution, and drive technical excellence across high-scale distributed systems and machine-learning environments. Required Experience Leadership of engineering organisations of 20 or more across multiple disciplines, including backend, web, data … DevOps. Proven track record designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems and high-volume data pipelines. Strong background in cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks such as Spark or Databricks. Experience working closely with Data Science teams, including delivering production-grade ML models and pipelines. Solid understanding ...

C++ Developer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Quant Finance McGregor Boyall have partnered with a tech-first quant investment manager in London: Someone with experience in Windows-centric, multithreaded C++ and distributed systems could directly shape the performance and reliability of the firm's core trading platforms and UI surfaces - the very systems that … latency/high throughput environment - Expert with Windows-based development with proven experience with STL, MFC, Wx Widgets or Win32 - Advanced knowledge of distributed systems - Linux Red Hat essential Nice to have: - Extensive front office experience in trading - Knowledge of Equities, Futures or Options - Experience working on market ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£125,000 - £150,000 per annum
will lead multiple engineering teams across data, ML, web, QA and DevOps disciplines to deliver a platform that processes massive datasets, powers complex distributed systems and provides high-value insights to enterprise clients. You will shape engineering strategy, strengthen execution and drive the organisation's evolution … engineering roadmap across all product and platform areas Lead architectural direction for data processing, machine learning pipelines and web application development Ensure systems are scalable, reliable and capable of handling large-scale data and evolving ML workloads Introduce and measure engineering KPIs Drive improvements in delivery processes, release quality ...

Founding Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Explore Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
join the team in central London. This is a unique opportunity to help build a transformative new platform at the intersection of software systems, automation, and intelligent infrastructure. Founded by leading academics and proven entrepreneurs , the business is backed by top-tier investors and is solving complex technical problems … that demand creativity, rigour, and ambition. The Role Build and own core systems and architecture from the ground up Work closely with the founding team on product direction and technical strategy Make key decisions across the full stack — from infrastructure to user-facing elements Contribute to the early engineering ...

Agentic Developer - Building guardrails for autonomous AI

Hiring Organisation
governr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
building the infrastructure that makes autonomous AI safe for enterprise deployment. Not governance theatre. Not compliance checkboxes. Actual technical systems that can monitor, quantify, and govern AI agents operating with autonomy in production environments. If you've been following the trajectory from static models to agentic systems … competitive window before large incumbents build comparable capabilities to stay relevant. The Role As an Agentic Developer at governr, you'll build the core systems that monitor, analyse, and govern autonomous AI agents in production. This isn't traditional software engineering with well-worn patterns. You're designing architectures ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CipherTek Recruitment
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
while other days will be remote. Desired technical Skills: Java (Core & Advanced): Strong proficiency in Java, including multi-threading, collections, and concurrency. FIC Trading Systems: Experience developing, maintaining, or supporting electronic trading platforms. Messaging Protocols: Familiarity with FIX protocol, MQ, JMS, or similar messaging solutions. API Development: Experience with … Spring MVC, and related technologies. Database Technologies: Strong SQL skills; experience with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL solutions. Distributed Systems: Understanding of distributed computing concepts and technologies (e.g., microservices, caching, clustering). Testing Frameworks: Experience with JUnit, Mockito, or similar testing ...