1 to 25 of 28 Distributed Systems Jobs in the City of 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 ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Burns Sheehan
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform 💸Up to £110,000 per annum plus bonus plus stock 🏠Central London office 🖱️Golang, Rust, C, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Native, Distributed systems... Are you a Senior Software Engineer with extensive knowledge of building distributed systems? Looking … Senior Software Engineer: Tech agnostic but preferable experience working with Golang, Rust, C/C++ or Java. In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, building solutions at scale where performance, reliability and availability are key considerations. Experience working on software infrastructure or building Cloud native software using Kubernetes Understanding ...

Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Vertex Search
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Tooling Build Python tooling, libraries, APIs and SDKs to support model training, evaluation and deployment Develop experiment-tracking, model-versioning and reproducibility tools Create systems for managing large and complex multimodal datasets Distributed Systems & Infrastructure Build scalable data pipelines for large clinical and research datasets Develop distributed systems for i.e. training foundation models Improve reliability, performance and resource use across compute clusters Research Enablement Partner with researchers to understand workflows and remove bottlenecks Prototype tools and iterate quickly based on research feedback Translate research ideas into production-grade software Engineering Excellence Write clean and scalable ...

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 ...

Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Up to £190k + Bonus

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Role: Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Up to £190k + Bonus Salary: Up to £190k + Bonus Location: London (Hybrid) Skills: Language agnostic, just need to be a keen technologist (Ideally experienced in Rust, Python or C++) This firm is an elite company with high tech standards who have … find the best team to suit your skillset/interests but you could be working on: • Designing and developing scalable, tested and production grade distributed systems • R&D work for functional programming; either pre-existing languages (such as Rust and Erlang), or purpose-built languages similar to OCaml ...

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 ...

Industry Principal- LLMs, agentic coding systems, intelligent IDEs, AI development platforms

Hiring Organisation
Infosys
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Role - Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI‐Native) – Industry Principal Technology - LLMs, agentic coding systems, intelligent IDEs, AI development platforms Location - London (global travel as required) Compensation - Competitive (including bonus) Job Description Today, the corporate landscape is dynamic and the world ahead is full of possibilities! None of the amazing … Your role In the role of Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) , You will anchor pods, set technical vision, and operationalize modern AI (LLMs, agentic systems, intelligent IDEs) to transform engineering workflows and outcomes. The role blends deep technical leadership with executive engagement and end‐to‐end delivery accountability. Serve ...

Senior Java/Kotlin Engineer x 4

Hiring Organisation
Oliver Bernard
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Looking For Strong hands-on software engineering experience in Kotlin (Backend) Solid understanding of JVM internals, concurrency, and performance optimisation Experience building distributed systems, microservices, or event-driven architectures Knowledge of frameworks such as Spring Boot , Micronaut , or Ktor Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fynity
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
into a senior position in a high-performing team within the world of Banking/Payments? Are you passionate about high-throughput, real-time systems? This is your opportunity to help shape the core technology that powers instant payments for some of the world’s largest Banks. … across the globe. What You’ll Be Doing You’ll be the focal point of a high-performing engineering team building asynchronous, event-driven systems using modern Java technologies, whilst working closely with some of the largest banks across Europe. Design and build scalable, high-availability systems processing ...

Senior DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Forsyth Barnes
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
across development and operations teams. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Linux/Unix, and containerised systems. Experience building and operating deployment pipelines and debugging distributed systems. Knowledge of relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL technologies. Familiarity with modern architectures including containers, APIs, and streaming platforms. Experience working in Agile environments ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
algo1
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
backed stealth-mode company building behavioural AI solutions for the retail industry. Our platform is designed from the ground up — no legacy, no patchwork systems — just a clean slate and a clear vision. Our mission is to bring the intelligence of modern machine learning directly to the in-store … flexibility. Responsibilities: Design and implement reactive, real-time web interfaces that help manage & redefine what is possible with in-store content personalisation Contribute to distributed, event-driven backend services connecting our web experience with information from remote devices and external data sources. Build and document APIs (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI ...

Staff Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Motive Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
phenomenal scale and reliability of the world best ai cloud platform. The engineering team is small, ambitious, and deeply technical, building the orchestration systems that keep thousands of GPUs running at peak performance across global data centres. This role sits at the heart of it, designing and scaling … systems that make AI at exascale possible. What You’ll Focus On You’ll help shape the orchestration layer for one of the most advanced AI compute environments in the world. Your work will involve: Designing core platform services for cluster provisioning, workload orchestration, and resource management APIs. Building ...

AI Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Akkodis
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65000 - £95000/annum
Other modern data technologies for fast storage and retrieval Strong expertise in AI/ML integration within enterprise architectures Deep knowledge of data modelling, distributed systems, and micro-services Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) Solid understanding of data governance, security, and regulatory ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Paritas Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
experience with the full software lifecycle in agile environments and CI/CD pipelines. Strong understanding of performance, scalability, security, and observability in distributed systems. Ability to translate complex requirements into resilient, production-ready software. Excellent collaboration and communication skills. Why This Role This is your chance to work ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
design and delivery of next-generation digital solutions. This is an opportunity to shape greenfield projects from the ground up - architecting scalable, data-driven systems that empower venues to deliver seamless guest experiences and drive long-term innovation. What will I be doing? Lead the technical vision and architectural … direction across complex backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Partner closely with engineering leadership to define best practices, coding standards, and long-term technical strategy. Design, develop, and oversee the delivery of robust, production-grade software built using Python, Django, Cloud Firestore, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch. Mentor and guide ...

Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Amazon
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
world-class team in a dynamic environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain world class experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are passionate about cloud … service in high growth environment Solve unique and first-order problems at massive-scale across many AWS Services Learn how to build and operate distributed systems at massive scale Build and influence the tools and utilities that are part of the AWS fleet running our internal services ...

AI Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
The Portfolio Group
Location
City of London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
orchestration, vector search, and evaluation workflows across AWS and Databricks. Working closely with senior AI engineers and product teams, you'll ensure AI systems are scalable, observable, secure, and cost-efficient, turning experimental AI into reliable, production-grade capabilities. With further scope of responsibilities detailed below: Own and evolve … Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch). Hands-on experience with Databricks and large-scale data or embedding pipelines. Proven experience building and operating production AI systems , including RAG pipelines, LLM-backed services, and vector search (Weaviate, OpenSearch, Algolia). Proficiency in Python , with experience deploying containerised services on Kubernetes using ...

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
City Of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
Strong Test Driven Development background, with understanding of levels of testing required to continuously deliver value to production Experience with build management and CI systems such as Jenkins, TeamCity or similar Delivery experience within an agile environment using Scrum/Kanban methodologies and Pair Programming. The attitude of leading ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Block MB
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Cambridge, Oxford. The role This is a greenfield platform engineering role with complete ownership over the core architecture. You'll design and build the systems powering real-time trading from the ground up, working directly with exceptional founders on one of the most ambitious infrastructure challenges … Architect the full platform stack (Python, TypeScript, Golang) handling trading engine, pricing models, hedging mechanisms and marketplace functionality. Build scalable, low-latency systems for real-time order matching, risk management and market data distribution. Design resilient infrastructure that can handle massive compute trading volumes with 24/7 reliability. ...

Software Engineer - Derivatives - Global Hedge Fund

Hiring Organisation
Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
responsible for the accuracy, automation and reliability of all futures and options lifecycle processes across the firm. You will design, build and maintain scalable systems that manage expiries, contract rolls, corporate actions, coupon payments and other lifecycle events, ensuring full data integrity for front-office trading and research teams. … Tech Stack: Python/C#, SQL, distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines The core function of this role is to ensure the availability, quality and automation of derivatives reference data and lifecycle workflows across global exchanges, directly supporting trading, operations and risk. The firm offers market-leading compensation ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Explore Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
scale-up (Series A/B); time in both early-stage and mature environments is a bonus. Strong technical foundation in Python, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred), and modern scalable architectures. Solid grasp of Agile practices, continuous delivery, and high-performing lean teams. People-first leadership style ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Ruby on Rails or similar backend frameworks at scale Strong expertise with React and/or React Native Experience designing scalable architectures, APIs, and distributed systems GraphQL knowledge – highly beneficial Excellent communication and leadership skills; able to influence without ego Proven ability to guide teams, mentor others ...

Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack)

Hiring Organisation
Primis
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
than the depth of skill Comfort with ambiguity - You thrive on open-ended challenges and unstructured problems Code fluency - You can dive into complex systems and make impactful contributions quickly Technical foundation - Strong skills in Python, TypeScript, or both (or genuine enthusiasm to learn) Collaboration style - You work well … with others but are equally effective independently Nice to Have: Experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, etc) Background in API development or distributed systems For more information, please apply! *Please note that this role will not be able to provide sponsorship support. Research shows that candidates from underrepresented ...

Green Tech / Energy Tech Start-Up | Full Stack Engineer | LDN 2 Days Per Week | £50K - £110K + Healthy Equity

Hiring Organisation
Owen Thomas | Pending B Corp™
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Engineer | LDN 2 Days Per Week | £50K - £110K + Healthy Equity Company: I'm looking for Full Stack Engineers who are excited about elegant systems as they are about real-world impact. Their mission is to reduce carbon emissions in the UK building a razor sharp platform for heat … join a lean, talented team of engineers and work directly on tools that accelerate the energy transition — like: -> Automated design tools for heat pump systems -> A survey app for collecting property data on-site -> 2D/3D floorplan creators (maybe even with LiDAR and CV!) -> Country-wide data tools ...

Founders Associate

Hiring Organisation
Linda AI
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
together, communicate openly, and expect everyone to raise the bar for each other. 🚀 We build at the frontier We operate where real-time voice, distributed systems, and agent reasoning intersect - a place where the challenges are hard and the impact is immediate. ⚡ We move fast and work hard … that matches our ambition. Customer success & operations: Become an expert in Linda’s product and help clinics onboard, troubleshoot, and unlock new value. Internal systems & automation: Identify bottlenecks and build tools or workflows (think: Notion, Zapier, Airtable) to make us faster and more efficient. Founder support & special projects ...