1 to 25 of 52 Permanent Distributed Systems Jobs in the South East

Senior Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Jonothan Bosworth
Location
Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£65,000 - £75,000 per annum
Senior Software Developer | Surrey | Hybrid | £65,000 - £75,000 Are you an experienced systems-level engineer craving impact We’re seeking a Senior Software Developer versed in Rust, or an equivalent systems language, who thrives in high-availability, mission-critical environments. Our client is a fast-growing technology … forward-thinking engineering team where you’ll make a real impact. You’ll play a key role in architecting, building, and optimising telecommunications systems in Rust , contributing to secure, high-performance, and scalable solutions used worldwide. You’ll collaborate closely across DevOps, API (Java), front-end, and database teams ...

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer - Growth

Hiring Organisation
Utility Warehouse Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
scalability and system reliability Raising engineering standards across observability, SLAs and deployment quality Contributing to key launches (including partner rollout and rebrand work) Supporting distributed system improvements and database migration projects Core Responsibilities Work primarily in Go, GraphQL, Docker & Kubernetes Break down complex work and deliver with minimal oversight … work primarily with Go, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes. You’ll own deployments end-to-end within our team’s Kubernetes namespace and contribute to systems where resilience, reliability, observability and uptime really matter. You’ll thrive here if you enjoy autonomy, solving distributed systems problems, and mentoring ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Southampton, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Woking, Surrey, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Dartford, Kent, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Maidstone, Kent, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Reading, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Guildford, Surrey, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend-Oriented) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Hiring Organisation
DoiT
Location
Crawley, West Sussex, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
pipelines, APIs, and business logic. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver user-facing features built on robust, distributed systems. Responsibilities Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems Implementing features. From … Backend or Full Stack development experience At least 3+ years of commercial Golang experience 2+ years of experience with high traffic/high load distributed systems and data pipelines Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance/schema/query optimization. ClickHouse and PostgresSQL ...

Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 - £110,000 per annum
well as leading the team to shape the future backend systems. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll lead backend architecture, scaling secure distributed systems for a growing customer base. Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable features. Tackle challenges in performance, fault … tolerance, and data-heavy workloads while influencing product strategy.Requirements: Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems Experience building and operating large-scale backend systems Expertise in system and API design, scalability, and performance tuning Proficiency in a modern backend language (Java preferred) Knowledge of cloud ...

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Hiring Organisation
4Square Recruitment Ltd
Location
Leatherhead, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £60,000 per annum
regression testing. Hands-on experience with API testing tools ( Postman, REST Assured ) and performance tools ( JMeter, Gatling ). Familiarity with CI/CD systems ( Bitbucket, Jenkins, TeamCity ) and containerisation ( Docker, Kubernetes ). Proficiency with Git and modern version-control practices. Desirable Skills Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred). … Understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture. Experience with contract testing frameworks such as Pact . Familiarity with observability tools ( Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog ). Background in performance optimisation and scalability testing. Exposure to security testing or DevSecOps practices. Soft Skills Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Gateway and Serverless technologies Message broker like Apache Kafka BPM framework Mustache template Experience in large scale integration projects involving messaging, web services and distributed systems ELK stack OpenStack platform Agile development – Scrum ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
Reading, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Gateway and Serverless technologies Message broker like Apache Kafka BPM framework Mustache template Experience in large scale integration projects involving messaging, web services and distributed systems ELK stack OpenStack platform Agile development – Scrum ...

Director - Lead Software Engineer Java, Equities

Hiring Organisation
Huxley
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£120,000 - £180,000 per annum
Equities Technology team within the Front Office. This is a hands-on, independent contributor role where you will design and build high-performance systems that support our equities trading business. You will work closely with traders, quants, and other technologists to deliver innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment. … Responsibilities Lead the design and development of Java-based trading and risk platforms for equities. Deliver low-latency, high-throughput systems for order management and execution. Collaborate with front-office stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Ensure best practices in software architecture, performance optimization ...

Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

Hiring Organisation
Ventula Consulting
Location
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 7+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, building and maintaining high-availability, high-throughput systems in production. Technical & Backend Skills Expert-level proficiency and at least 5 years of production experience with C++ OR Go (Golang). Strong, proven experience … designing, building, and scaling high-availability RESTful APIs for mobile or web clients. Deep experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven patterns. Demonstrated experience with real-time applications and data streaming technologies (e.g., WebSockets, gRPC, Kafka). Experience integrating third-party AI/ML APIs (e.g. ...

Global Head of Platforms (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
Xact Placements Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 per annum
lead a world-class Platform Engineering organisation across multiple regions. You’ll be the force behind a secure, resilient, and ultra high-throughput distributed platform that supports enterprise customers around the world. If you want impact, autonomy, and the chance to build at true global scale, this is it. … What You’ll Be Doing Lead, grow, and structure a multi-region Platform Engineering organisation. Architect and scale a distributed scanning & data-processing platform powering thousands of global workloads. Drive DevOps maturity — improving deployment speed, change failure rates, and time-to-recovery across all services. Own cloud and infrastructure ...