1 to 25 of 37 Permanent Distributed Systems Jobs in the Midlands

Senior Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Nicoll Curtin
Location
Nottingham, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Enterprise Architect (Hands-On) – C#/.NET Core | Azure | Distributed Systems | Global SaaS - Fully Remote We are looking for a highly technical, hands-on Enterprise Architect to help shape and scale a global technology platform following continued international growth, including expansion into North America. This … 30pm UK time) The Role -Own and evolve the enterprise architecture framework aligned to business growth -Design scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems -Lead monolith → microservices modernisation -Drive event-driven and clean architecture principles -Work hands-on with engineering on architecture and system design -Establish architectural standards, governance ...

Senior Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Nicoll Curtin
Location
Birmingham, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Enterprise Architect (Hands-On) – C#/.NET Core | Azure | Distributed Systems | Global SaaS - Fully Remote We are looking for a highly technical, hands-on Enterprise Architect to help shape and scale a global technology platform following continued international growth, including expansion into North America. This … 30pm UK time) The Role -Own and evolve the enterprise architecture framework aligned to business growth -Design scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems -Lead monolith → microservices modernisation -Drive event-driven and clean architecture principles -Work hands-on with engineering on architecture and system design -Establish architectural standards, governance ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Saxon
Location
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Lead Engineer – Distributed Systems/DeFi Infrastructure Remote | Up to $150k (paid in stablecoins) Saxon is working with one of our portfolio companies to hire a Lead Engineer to help build next-generation on-chain financial infrastructure. This is not a typical Web3 role. You'll be architecting … core financial systems including vault mechanics, reward engines, token supply logic, and distributed backend infrastructure supporting a blockchain-native product. We're looking for someone who thinks in systems and architecture, not just features. What You'll Work On • Designing distributed backend systems • Building reward ...

Lead Architect

Hiring Organisation
Accelerant
Location
Derby, Derbyshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
clearly communicated, understood, and consistently applied Design and Innovation Define and maintain architectural patterns across backend services, APIs, data platforms, and front end systems Design scalable, resilient systems for analytics, workflow orchestration, and intelligence features Guide decomposition of legacy systems into well defined services and domains Evaluate … technologies and data stores, favoring open standards and long term maintainability Architect distributed systems with focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability Standards & Governance Establish API design standards ensuring consistency, discoverability, and ease of integration Define front end standards prioritizing web platform capabilities, progressive enhancement, and accessibility (WCAG ...

Lead Architect

Hiring Organisation
Accelerant
Location
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
clearly communicated, understood, and consistently applied Design and Innovation Define and maintain architectural patterns across backend services, APIs, data platforms, and front end systems Design scalable, resilient systems for analytics, workflow orchestration, and intelligence features Guide decomposition of legacy systems into well defined services and domains Evaluate … technologies and data stores, favoring open standards and long term maintainability Architect distributed systems with focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability Standards & Governance Establish API design standards ensuring consistency, discoverability, and ease of integration Define front end standards prioritizing web platform capabilities, progressive enhancement, and accessibility (WCAG ...

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£90,000 - £105,000 per annum
used by clients to explore trends and drive smarter advertising decisions. THE ROLE As Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will help shape a distributed data and compute platform designed for large-scale ingestion, transformation and machine learning workloads. Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following: Designing … optimising of distributed systems for high-throughput data processing Build services and tools in Python or Go, with the opportunity to cross-train in the other. Work across data pipelines, data warehouses and processing frameworks to support analytics and AI products, contributing to new applications and evolving existing ...

Forward Deployed Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Acceler8 Talent
Location
Midlands, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Lead 8–12+ week technical implementations Write and push production backend code Own API integrations and complex data workflows Debug SQL, async services, and distributed systems Work directly with customer engineering teams Influence product roadmap from the field High autonomy. High visibility. Real ownership. This is hands … What We're Looking For Strong backend engineering fundamentals (Python, TypeScript, or similar) Deep comfort with SQL (joins, aggregations, performance tradeoffs) Experience shipping production systems in B2B SaaS API fluency: designing, debugging, integrating Comfort reasoning about distributed systems and async behavior Strong communication - you can explain technical ...

Forward Deployed Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Acceler8 Talent
Location
Telford, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Lead 8–12+ week technical implementations Write and push production backend code Own API integrations and complex data workflows Debug SQL, async services, and distributed systems Work directly with customer engineering teams Influence product roadmap from the field High autonomy. High visibility. Real ownership. This is hands … What We're Looking For Strong backend engineering fundamentals (Python, TypeScript, or similar) Deep comfort with SQL (joins, aggregations, performance tradeoffs) Experience shipping production systems in B2B SaaS API fluency: designing, debugging, integrating Comfort reasoning about distributed systems and async behavior Strong communication - you can explain technical ...

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

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 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 Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 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 ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SearchWorks
Location
Telford, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
continue building the product. This is a product engineering role (not consultancy) What you'll be doing Architecting the backbone of revolutionary AI systems Create backend systems that deliver sub second response times Help to guide and mentor an extremely strong team of engineers Help to create robust … scalable platforms to process commercial claims faster than every before. What they're looking for Expert Python skills with proven experience building high performing systems 8+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with some insights into distributed systems Some frontend experience Some systems architecture exposure Performance ...

Senior Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Couch Heroes
Location
Nottingham, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
dies on the quality of its networking layer. We need a Senior Network Engineer who can build the server infrastructure, networking architecture, and online systems that allow thousands of players to share a seamless, responsive world. You will report to the CTO and work closely with gameplay engineers, backend … developers, and DevOps to design and implement the server architecture, replication systems, and online services that underpin the entire game experience. We are in early production. The studio has been running for three years, and server architecture, zone streaming, player session management, and replication models are still being designed. ...

DeFi Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
Nottingham, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
rollup execution Requirements: • Advanced degree in a quantitative field • 2+ years strong Rust and Solidity • Experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or onchain systems • Strong distributed systems knowledge • Comfortable across Linux, AWS, Docker, Git High ownership. Close collaboration with founders. Real impact on live DeFi infrastructure. ...

DeFi Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
rollup execution Requirements: • Advanced degree in a quantitative field • 2+ years strong Rust and Solidity • Experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or onchain systems • Strong distributed systems knowledge • Comfortable across Linux, AWS, Docker, Git High ownership. Close collaboration with founders. Real impact on live DeFi infrastructure. ...

Software Engineer (Scala)

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Stamford Hill, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Cloud Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Stamford Hill, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Backend Software Engineer (Scala)

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Stamford Hill, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B CorporationTM
Location
Worcester, Worcestershire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
company's AI-driven platform. You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate product requirements into scalable, reliable systems that deliver real value to customers. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working in high-growth startup environments, solving complex technical problems … shipping production software at scale. What You'll Be Doing Designing and building scalable backend systems using Python Developing and maintaining API-driven architectures Working with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems Designing and optimizing database systems for performance and reliability Building and maintaining frontend applications using ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B CorporationTM
Location
Derby, Derbyshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
company's AI-driven platform. You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate product requirements into scalable, reliable systems that deliver real value to customers. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working in high-growth startup environments, solving complex technical problems … shipping production software at scale. What You'll Be Doing Designing and building scalable backend systems using Python Developing and maintaining API-driven architectures Working with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems Designing and optimizing database systems for performance and reliability Building and maintaining frontend applications using ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DWP Digital
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£55,000
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Experience building software using Java (Java 8 or above), including evidence of working on large-scale, distributed systems where performance and resilience matter. Understanding of RESTful APIs and microservice design including how to build and consume them effectively. Experience with … across the full software lifecycle - from designing APIs to building user interfaces, to deploying and monitoring services in cloud environments. These aren't small systems: you'll be working with high-volume, mission-critical applications where performance, latency and security really matter. You'll join teams working in areas ...

Data Engineer (Scala)

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Stamford Hill, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Aveni
Location
Nottingham, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Aveni is redefining how financial institutions use AI. We build real, production-ready agentic systems that reshape how banks, advisers and financial services firms operate, replacing fragmented processes with intelligent, end-to-end workflows. We have been recognised as Fintech of the Year for two consecutive years and awarded … advisers, analysts and banking teams. Your work will focus on: Designing and implementing robust event-driven microservices and APIs Building scalable, cloud-native systems on AWS Developing modern, responsive React front-ends Integrating LLM-powered capabilities into real-world workflows Collaborating closely with product and AI specialists to turn ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Aveni
Location
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Aveni is redefining how financial institutions use AI. We build real, production-ready agentic systems that reshape how banks, advisers and financial services firms operate, replacing fragmented processes with intelligent, end-to-end workflows. We have been recognised as Fintech of the Year for two consecutive years and awarded … advisers, analysts and banking teams. Your work will focus on: Designing and implementing robust event-driven microservices and APIs Building scalable, cloud-native systems on AWS Developing modern, responsive React front-ends Integrating LLM-powered capabilities into real-world workflows Collaborating closely with product and AI specialists to turn ...

Head of Data Engineering (AI)

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 - £130,000 per annum
lead engineering at scale while working on genuinely complex technical challenges. You'll own the engineering roadmap across all products, driving architectural decisions for distributed data processing, ML pipelines, and modern web systems that handle massive datasets for enterprise clients. THE COMPANY: This is a business built … innovation, stability, and genuine technical excellence. Recently recognized for cutting-edge GenAI data work, they're operating at the absolute intersection of large-scale distributed systems, ML, and the rapid evolution of search technology. THE ROLE: Own and execute the engineering roadmap Drive architectural decisions for distributed ...

Principal Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Shaw Daniels Solutions
Location
Telford, Shropshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
architecture, scalability, and evolution of the enterprise data platform. This role goes far beyond delivery. You will define technical strategy, design scalable data systems, mentor senior engineers, and partner closely with product, engineering, analytics, and business leaders to transform strategic goals into robust, data-driven solutions. You will have … clear communication and stakeholder collaboration. Anticipate future data needs, balancing long-term vision with pragmatic delivery. Own reliability, performance, and observability of critical data systems, including SLO definition and operational resilience. Mentor and develop senior data engineers through architecture reviews, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing. Champion data quality, governance ...