1 to 25 of 46 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 ...

Rust Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
currently working with an early-stage infrastructure company building high-performance distributed systems, with Rust at the core of the stack, who are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the design, build, and scale of a genuinely differentiated systems architecture. This is a pivotal role … building a new approach to real-time data and system infrastructure, designed to remove traditional dependencies on external services through a more tightly integrated, systems-native architecture. You’ll remain hands-on technically while driving engineering standards, roadmap execution, and team growth. This is a rare opportunity to join ...

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 ...

Backend Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 100,000 Annual
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 ...

Fully Remote Staff Distributed Systems Engineer (Golang)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Lawrence Harvey Search & Selection is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) for a fully remote role. You will design and operate large-scale distributed systems using Golang on Kubernetes, contributing to a decentralised cloud compute platform with a global network. The role emphasizes reliability, security ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
OB Collective
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer – Scala, Distributed Systems Location: UK, remote-first with occasional onsite. UK-based, UK data handling only. Engagement: Contract, outside IR35. Rate: circa £700/day depending on experience. Clearance: Current, portable NPPV3 is essential (SC alongside is a strong plus). We can only consider … small delivery team, stay close to the code, and work directly with operational users and partner engineers to ground the build in how systems are actually used. What you'll do Own the technical design and delivery of a data-pipeline/provenance engagement Build ingestion, transformation and lineage ...

Camunda Architect / Lead Architect (Camunda 8 Preferred)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
preferred Deep understanding of: BPMN 2.0 DMN workflow orchestration patterns Strong software architecture and system design experience Strong background in: microservices architecture event-driven systems distributed systems Strong backend engineering experience using Java/Spring Boot or equivalent Experience working with: REST APIs Kafka/RabbitMQ/… messaging systems Docker Kubernetes cloud-native deployments Strong understanding of security, scalability, resilience, and reliability principles Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Ability to balance technical architecture with practical business and delivery outcomes Preferred/Desirable Experience with both Camunda 7 and Camunda 8 Experience with Camunda SaaS ...

Senior Solutions Architect

Hiring Organisation
HCLTech
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
within client environments. Working as part of client-facing delivery teams, this role partnerswith senior engineers, and consulting leads to implement scalable, production-ready systems for HCLTechEnterprise customers. FDEs contribute directly to solution delivery-translating defined requirements into working systems, buildingintegrations, and supporting deployments. While primarily focused … deploy AI-powered solutions, including LLM-based workflows, copilots, and automation tools inclient environments Implement integrations between AI models, APIs, and enterprise healthcare systems Translate defined solution designs into high-quality, production-ready code Contribute to end-to-end delivery by supporting development, testing, and deployment activities Hands ...

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 ...

Integration Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Searchability NS&D
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
architectures. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building secure, cloud-native APIs and microservices on AWS, working across complex distributed systems in highly regulated environments. What you’ll be doing: Designing and building RESTful APIs using AWS Lambda & API Gateway Developing microservices and integration solutions … service boundaries Building secure integrations using IAM, OAuth/token-based auth Supporting end-to-end delivery: design, build, deploy & production support Working across distributed systems and enterprise integrations Supporting CI/CD pipelines and live service operations What we’re looking for: Strong experience in API design ...

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 ...

Site Reliability Engineer - SRE Fleet

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
responsible for maintaining the stability, scalability, and efficiency of the infrastructure that powers our global cloud platform. As a team of six engineers distributed across the US, Canada, and the UK, we combine deep infrastructure expertise with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and operational excellence. … pipelines, testing frameworks, and operational tooling to support the continued growth of a platform serving millions of managed devices worldwide. Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and distributed systems issues to ensure high availability while helping teams identify and address performance and scalability challenges. Contribute to critical projects such as cluster ...

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 ...

Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure - ThousandEyes

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the Cisco technology portfolio, delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios. Our distributed Site Reliability Engineering team of approximately nine engineers owns the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the platform while … application development teams. We believe in operations, infrastructure, and everything as code, creating a collaborative and pragmatic environment where engineers can manage large-scale systems that receive hundreds of millions of messages per hour. Your Impact Design andoperate large-scale, highly available distributed systems that allow ...

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/ ...

Software Development Engineer II

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
enhance every traveler's experience and make it better! In this role, you will: Design, develop, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency distributed backend services that deliver efficient, optimal pricing solutions at scale. Implement robust caching mechanisms to enhance application performance, reduce latency, and optimize resource utilization. Participate … cross-functional teams to deliver sustainable solutions. Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Akkodis
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of financial markets, strong programming skills in Python, and experience developing and maintaining back-end systems for trading application s. Key Responsibiliti es:Develop and maintain robust back-end systems for trade capture and processi ng.Design, implement, and optimise … trade capture process es.Experience with financial markets and instrumen ts.Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQ L).Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and RESTful AP Is.Knowledge of version control systems, preferably G it.Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to deta il.Ability ...

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 ...

Principal AI Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
automation, standardisation, and FinOps-informed engineering practices.Who you areAn experienced professional in designing and operating internal developer platforms, cloud-native platforms, or large-scale distributed systems within complex enterprise environments.A technical specialist with expertise across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, service networking ...

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 ...