26 to 50 of 96 Distributed Systems Jobs in Central London

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
journey. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our next generation SRE patterns, reliability frameworks, observability strategy, and performance engineering capabilities across globally distributed systems. This role is ideal for an SRE specialist who thrives in fast paced front office environments, enjoys direct interaction with traders, and wants … asset classes (Equities, Fixed Income, FX) to understand workflows, pain points, and reliability priorities. Act as a trusted engineering partner to the desk, ensuring systems are stable, performant, and aligned with business needs. Support live trading environments, including incident response, root cause analysis, and post mortem leadership. Work ...

Senior Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Tech 4
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
building with AI tools long enough to know how to use them effectively. You'll likely bring: Deep experience building scalable, secure, cloud-based systems, giving you the foundation to confidently guide and validate agentic workflow outputs. Proven ability to work across both legacy and greenfield codebases, using modern … tooling to improve reliability and evolve architecture pragmatically. Strong system design fundamentals across scalability, performance, and distributed systems, including API design (REST, GraphQL). Hands-on experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, or similar) and a data-informed approach to system health and reliability. Solid SQL and data ...

Principle Integration Architect

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
delivering SMBC's Global Horizon programme, the bank's first large scale global technology implementation. Horizon intends to move SMBC's regionalised HR systems to one global platform. Reporting to the EMEA Head of Enterprise Architecture, the Principal Integration Architect role will be responsible for designing, governing, and evolving … bank's integration architecture across core systems, digital platforms, and third-party services. This role ensures seamless, secure, and scalable data and service integration across a complex global technology landscape, supporting both legacy modernization and cloud transformation initiatives. The anticipated salary range for this role ...

Senior Rust Developer – Crypto Desk | Global Hedge Fund | Hong Kong

Hiring Organisation
BAH Partners
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
stage and help build the core technology powering the desk. This is not a maintenance role. You’ll be building greenfield, performance-critical trading systems in Rust , helping shape the architecture and technical foundations of a new institutional crypto platform backed by the infrastructure, capital and resources … always-on crypto markets. What they’re looking for: Strong production Rust Genuine crypto/digital assets experience Experience building performance-critical or distributed systems Strong systems, networking and concurrency fundamentals Engineers who want real ownership rather than simply joining an established platform For a senior Rust ...

Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum IT Recruitment Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
anticipate user demands and drive innovation. Additionally, you'll take the lead in providing operational support and technical oversight for several large-scale distributed applications. How You'll Contribute: Monitor and interpret system and application metrics to fine-tune performance and troubleshoot issues effectively Collaborate closely with developers … structured release practices Engage in architectural discussions, manage platform operations, and contribute to capacity forecasting Design and implement automated solutions to build resilient, scalable systems Maintain a strong focus on delivering new features while ensuring stability and adherence to service level goals You'll Stand Out If You Have ...

Machine Learning Scientist III

Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
cloud-native infrastructure. Design and deploy scalable batch and real-time ML pipelines supporting customer-facing applications. Develop and operationalise LLM applications, RAG systems, and Generative AI capabilities for content understanding, summarisation, classification, and recommendation use cases. Build evaluation frameworks and observability solutions to monitor model quality, reliability, latency … offs between model quality, scalability, latency, and infrastructure cost when developing AI-powered products. Partner with engineering teams to deploy and scale machine learning systems in production. Produce clear technical documentation and share expertise through mentorship, design reviews, and technical leadership. Experience and Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer ...

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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 ...

Software Engineer III - Data Analytics Platform

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
testing. Comfort working in one or more of Go, Python, or TypeScript, with the ability to ramp up quickly on the others. Interest in distributed systems and system design, even if you haven't built large systems yet. Curiosity about LLMs and AI model architecture, with willingness … peers on safe and effective usage within team practices. Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience with performance profiling tools such as pprof, flamegraphs, or distributed tracing systems. Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and service-to-service networking. Understanding of inference concepts: batching, streaming tokens, GPU memory constraints ...

Senior Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer Opportunities

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
integrations aligned to BNYs principles and pillars. To be successful in this role, were seeking the following: Proven leadership of software engineering teams building distributed systems and microservices in agile environments such as Scrum or Kanban. Hands-on AI development using modern tools and IDEs (e.g., Windsurf ...

Software Engineer, Trading - Cumberland Systematic

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 ...

Principal Software Engineer-AI

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
skills, harnesses) and taking them to production or in platforming (LLM or MCP gateway, agentic runtime, auth, data retrieval, eval tooling) Experience running AI systems in production at scale, including observability, cost and capacity planning, regression detection, and incident response for AI-powered applications Experience operating production distributed systems on AWS/Azure, with a strong grasp of reliability, observability, and incident response at scale Deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies, serverless applications, event-driven architectures, data and inference pipelines, relational, NoSQL, and vector databases, and modern software architecture patterns Proven track record of owning multi ...

Staff Engineer Java Spring Boot AWS

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
financial services sector. As a Staff Engineer, you'll lead the design and delivery of high impact technology projects, helping clients modernise legacy systems, migrate to AWS and introduce modern CI/CD and cloud deployment practices. You'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, problem solving … Leading technical projects and client engagements from design through to delivery Developing scalable Java applications using Spring Boot and microservices Modernising and migrating legacy systems to AWS Designing and working with REST APIs and distributed systems Introducing and improving CI/CD and DevOps practices Providing technical ...

Senior Software Engineer - Customer Order

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
robust APIs, event-driven architectures, and exceptional engineering practices. This is a role for an engineer who is excited by building high-volume transactional systems, designing reusable platform capabilities, and shaping how customer orders are processed, fulfilled, and managed across one of the UK's largest retailers. About … Fulfilment domains. Design and evolve GraphQL and REST APIs, ensuring consistency, performance, scalability, and an excellent developer experience. Build resilient, low-latency solutions using distributed databases, caching technologies, and modern architectural patterns. Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Architects, and business stakeholders to solve complex commerce challenges. ...

Senior Backend Engineer- Kotlin

Hiring Organisation
Marks and Spencer
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
recommend applying as soon as possible. What you'll do Your key accountabilities will include: Writing, testing and debugging code for complex features, distributed systems and legacy migrations, while helping optimise deployment pipelines. Providing technical leadership, guidance and estimation on complex, high-impact projects, ensuring successful delivery … technology environment and software engineering best practices. Expert understanding of software development principles and patterns, including MVC, SOLID, DRY and KISS. Solid expertise using distributed version control systems such as Git. Proficiency with Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and non-functional testing approaches. Strong DevOps ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns … Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working ...

Senior Python Developer/ Engineer

Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
standards. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and client stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. Design and implement integrations with internal client systems and external third-party APIs using REST, webhooks, and event-driven integration patterns. Apply software engineering best practices, including SOLID principles, Clean Architecture, Repository … integrating with third‐party APIs, enterprise platforms, and external services. Strong understanding of software design patterns, object‐oriented programming principles, clean code practices, and distributed system design. Experience implementing API security using OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect, API Keys, and secure authentication/authorization mechanisms. Experience with relational and NoSQL ...

Quantitative Trading & Research - Quantitative Developer - Associate or Vice President

Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
production technology behind AI-driven systematic trading. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy turning ambiguous research requirements into clean interfaces, fast systems, and reproducible workflows-without losing sight of trading realities like latency, determinism, and operational risk., Design and build high-performance market-data, feature-computation, backtesting … real-time market data, pricing, risk controls, and order-management systems. Build scalable data and research pipelines that support granular historical data, reproducible experiments, distributed computation, and rapid strategy iteration. Optimize critical paths for throughput, tail latency, memory efficiency, resilience, and deterministic behavior; use profiling and measurement to guide ...

Mechanical Engineer (Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Hired
Location
Central London / West End, London, United Kingdom
Role Overview: The client seeks an Engineering Expert to provide specialized technical guidance for system architecture decisions, troubleshooting complex issues, and optimizing performance across distributed systems. The role requires deep expertise in multiple engineering domains to support critical infrastructure and product development initiatives. Key Responsibilities: • Design and evaluate scalable … solutions with business objectives. • Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality and security standards. Required Skills & Qualifications: • Experience with distributed systems, microservices, or large-scale backend infrastructure. • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Go, or Rust. • Strong problem ...

Service Engineer

Location
City of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience. OR equivalent experience. Technical experience in service engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, technical support, or a comparable engineering environment supporting online services, commercial platforms, or cloud services. Experience in customer-facing Tier 3 technical support … large datasets using SQL or equivalent data platforms to identify trends, validate hypotheses, measure support impact, and generate actionable insights. Experience working with cloud, distributed systems, telemetry, monitoring, observability, or service health tooling, preferably in Azure or comparable cloud environments. Experience troubleshooting or integrating with modern ...

Lead Full Stack Engineer

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
Build trust, share credit, and strengthen cross-functional execution Design and build fit-for-purpose architectures that balance simplicity, quality, scale, and security Simplify systems and workflows by removing friction, toil, and unnecessary handoffs Create durable reusable patterns, guardrails, and tooling that accelerate team delivery Quickly ramps … domains, technologies, and problem spaces, adapting as needs evolve Apply strong engineering fundamentals across software design, data, testing, and distributed systems Use AI-enabled tools deliberately across design, coding, testing, review, and documentation, while keeping strong human accountability for high-risk decisions, verification, and final quality Build software ...

MLOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DGH Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
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 ...

Senior Lead Software Engineer - CDAO Data Platforms

Location
Westminster, West End, United Kingdom
user interfaces all via public cloud. Job responsibilities Leads the engineering of cutting-edge solutions in the areas of metadata, meta-modelling and distributed systems. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors Develops secure and high-quality production code ...

Lead Full Stack Engineer (Golang Focus)

Hiring Organisation
Pertemps London
Location
United Kingdom, Holborn and Covent Garden, Greater London
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70000/annum
Back End Engineer to join its growing engineering team. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building and maintaining scalable backend systems that support high-volume digital products used by millions of users. This opportunity is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about backend development … distributed systems and modern software engineering practices, with strong commercial experience in GoLang being the primary requirement. The Role The Back End Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining robust, high-performance backend services and APIs. Working closely with product, engineering and leadership teams, they will help ...

Principal Engineer, Mobile Platform & Backend Systems

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
reaching well beyond iOS and Android. Based in Mobile Engineering, you will use a close connection to customer and product needs to shape backend systems across engineering organizations. You will help decide which cross-team problems to tackle and where architectural investment will have the greatest impact, then work … with the owning engineers to build and prove the solution in production. What You'll Do Shape the systems behind product experiences: Set technical direction for client-facing APIs and the backend architecture behind them. Work with service and platform owners to simplify how backend services connect and support ...

Fullstack Senior Software Engineer (TypeScript, C#, AWS) 12 mnth Maternity Cover

Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Event-driven architecture What You Need to Be Successful A strong background in TypeScript and C# with experience building modern, production-grade APIs and distributed systems. Proven experience with asynchronous, event-driven architecture and hands-on familiarity with AWS managed services including ECS/Fargate, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB ...