76 to 100 of 143 Distributed Systems Jobs in the City of London

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, England, United Kingdom
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 ...

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 ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge (Technology)
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
solutions, ensuring seamless integration across different customer-facing platforms Architecting and implementing real-time data integration Designing and enforcing consent and preference management systems in compliance with GDPR and other relevant data privacy regulations Collaborating closely with MarTech and Digital teams to ensure smooth and efficient data flow from … backend systems to marketing and engagement platforms What is required to be successful in this role: Deep expertise in data engineering, including real-time data processing, API design and distributed systems Strong proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure), infrastructure-as-code, and scalable architecture patterns ...

Full Stack Engineer - 6 month Contract

Hiring Organisation
Oliver Bernard
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
scaling FinTech that is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer to join on a 6-month contract, helping to shape and deliver modern, scalable systems within a collaborative, product-driven engineering culture. If you enjoy working on complex architectures, improving reliability, and building impactful features end-to-end with … full ownership, this role offers significant influence and room to drive best-practice engineering. What you’ll be doing: • Designing and engineering large-scale systems • Contributing to cloud-native architectures across AWS and GCP • Improving developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and automation • Leveraging Generative AI tools to boost ...

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Python, TypeScript, React- Elite funded Fintech

Hiring Organisation
Austin Werner
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
engineering at the core. The Opportunity As a Senior/Lead Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering scalable, reliable systems that handle significant volumes of real-time data and transactions. You'll collaborate with product, data, and platform teams to deliver high-impact features … hands-on role for an engineer who values clean architecture, measurable outcomes, and meaningful user impact. What You’ll Do: Design and implement distributed systems that are resilient, scalable, and secure. Own technical decision-making across architecture and implementation — selecting the right tools and patterns to meet evolving ...

API Platform Architect (.Net, APIM, Azure, Kubernetes)

Hiring Organisation
Insight International (UK) Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
evolution of our enterprise API Platform. This role is fully hands-on , combining deep expertise in Azure cloud services, Kubernetes, Terraform, API security, and distributed systems with the ability to guide, review, and contribute to .NET Core API development practices . The architect will define and maintain … Helm chart authoring, deployment strategies, custom charts, container registries Ingress controllers, API gateways, service mesh, and traffic policy enforcement Observability (Prometheus, Grafana), log pipelines, distributed tracing High availability, cluster upgrades, autoscaling strategy, performance tuning Lead advanced troubleshooting (pods, networking, DNS, controllers, storage, ingress). 5. Azure API Management (APIM ...

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 ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Sphere Digital Recruitment Group
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
platform provider to deliver the minimum lovable product and inform the future evolution of the platform. Person Specification 10+ years' experience in software engineering, systems design, platform engineering, or technical architecture roles. Demonstrated experience designing and supporting cloud-native, distributed systems in production environments. Strong, hands ...

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 ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Atarus
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
What You’ll Take Ownership Of As a technical leader within the team, you’ll be responsible for: Designing, building, and improving large-scale distributed systems Working across both backend (Python) and frontend (TypeScript/React) components Taking full lifecycle ownership of your work — from concept to deployment … deployment is the default, supported by fully automated pipelines Strong emphasis on testing, reliability, and observability Engineers hold end-to-end responsibility for the systems they create The platform is cloud-native and designed for scale, resilience, and rapid iteration Engineering Culture A collaborative environment where ideas are shared ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ZEREN
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
receive precise, secure answers in seconds . This is an opportunity to join a high-calibre engineering team , working at the intersection of distributed systems, data infrastructure, and applied AI . This role will be in the office in a Central London location. What you’ll be working … storage layers Productionising the agent execution platform - improving reliability, observability, and performance Improving developer experience , tooling, and internal platform abstractions Working closely with AI systems (LLMs), including prompt and system design to enable accurate, efficient answers Backend stack Go Postgres Terraform (IaC) Cloud-native infrastructure and event-driven systems ...

Junior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
OTA Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
remote working) Company description We are a proprietary sports pricing and product provider, specializing in the development of intricate, simulation-driven pricing and risk systems that empower leading sports brands. As pioneers in player-level, play-by-play simulations and forecasting, we deliver the group’s most advanced pricing … e.g., Power BI, Plotly/Dash) for visualization. Experience in frontend development – React/Javascript Experience in structuring APIs – Django, Flask, FastAPI Familiarity with distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Kafka) for large-scale analytics. Knowledge of testing practices (e.g., TDD) in data workflows. Passion for clean, well-documented systems ...

Remote Senior Java Software Engineer - Fintech

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
protect investors, enhance transparency, and ensure compliance in some of the world's most dynamic markets. Trusted by regulators and institutions worldwide, their systems monitor over a trillion events every single day. They are now seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Algos Team. In this role … crypto markets. 🔹 What you'll do Build and optimize real-time and batch surveillance algorithms Contribute to the design of scalable, low-latency systems Collaborate with quants, data scientists, and compliance experts Enhance and maintain a mission-critical global codebase 🔹 What they're looking for 5+ years' software engineering ...

Principal (Director) Software Engineer - Python, Typescript, React, AWS - Elite funded Fintech

Hiring Organisation
Austin Werner
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
engineering at the core. The Opportunity As a Principal (Director) Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering scalable, reliable systems that handle significant volumes of real-time data and transactions. You'll collaborate with product, data, and platform teams to deliver high-impact features … hands-on role for an engineer who values clean architecture, measurable outcomes, and meaningful user impact. What You’ll Do: Design and implement distributed systems that are resilient, scalable, and secure. Own technical decision-making across architecture and implementation — selecting the right tools and patterns to meet evolving ...

Principal Go Engineer | Up to £180k + Bonus + Equity | Greenfield | London

Hiring Organisation
Maze
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
banks. We're looking for a Senior Engineer specialising in Go to contribute to v1 builds, define architecture, and ship mission-critical backend systems from scratch. What you’ll do: Design & scale a fault-tolerant ledger (Golang, Kafka, CockroachDB/YugabyteDB) Architect distributed, multi-region infra with five … solving mindset; open to non-traditional backgrounds. You should have: Expert backend skill ideally in Golang, or Rust, Zig or C. Deep expereince building distributed systems from scratch. Experience in greenfield projects with high ownership. Motivated and excited to work with AI. Why join: Huge ownership: build core ...

Data Engineer (Credit Technology) | Multi-Strat Fund

Hiring Organisation
Selby Jennings
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
deliver scalable solutions aligned with business needs. Develop APIs and tools to enable efficient data consumption and integration. Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability across distributed systems. Ideal Candidate Profile 5+ years of experience in data engineering or similar data-intensive roles. Strong Python skills and experience with data libraries … e.g., Pandas, Polars, Dask, PySpark). Expertise in SQL and relational databases; familiarity with columnar formats (Parquet/Arrow). Experience with distributed systems and messaging tools (e.g., Kafka, Redis). Knowledge of data lake/warehouse architectures and performance tuning. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. Bonus ...

Lead Storage Architect

Hiring Organisation
Stanford Black Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
shape and scale its core data platforms. This role sits within their Global Platform Storage group and focuses on building highly reliable, automated storage systems that underpin large-scale research, analytics, and trading workloads. You’ll work closely with compute and HPC teams to deliver storage that performs … scale and evolves with the business. What You’ll Do: Design, deploy and operate large-scale, distributed storage platforms across multiple regions (AMER, EMEA & APAC). Lead architectural decisions for file, object, and hybrid storage systems. Drive automation and standardisation using Python and infrastructure-as-code tooling. Improve performance ...

Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Durlston Partners
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
rate compensation (made ~40 of its staff millionaires in the last 2 years). In the role, you would be focusing on highly scalable distributed systems, working directly with the Lead Core Developer, the CTO and other various internal stakeholders. The system you would be designing … dealing with 100M+ transactions daily. Requirements: Excellent Python skills with a good understanding of relevant libraries. Significant system design and architecture knowledge for highly distributed systems. Ability to design, build and optimise high-performing Python systems from scratch. Previous experience building/upgrading SQL databases would be highly ...

Junior Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Intellect Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
techniques Strong programming skills in Python (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy) Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and basic distributed systems concepts Strong problem-solving mindset with a passion for building practical, scalable AI solutions Excellent teamwork and communication skills Full right to work ...

Founding Engineer (Full Stack) – w/ Equity

Hiring Organisation
TEN-XER
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
with modern TypeScript frameworks like Next.js or React, and an eye for building clean, intuitive product experiences Experience designing and operating data pipelines or distributed systems that handle large volumes of text or documents Comfort working with LLMs and applied AI including prompting, integrating model APIs, and thinking ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Motive Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Principle Engineer This is a role for engineers who like big systems, hard problems, and meaningful ownership. You’ll be joining a team operating at the intersection of software, hardware, and AI. The engineering team is small, ambitious, and deeply technical, building the orchestration systems that keep thousands … GPUs running at peak performance across global data centres. About You You’re a pragmatic systems builder who thrives in complexity, enjoys autonomy, and understands what it means to own production at scale. You’ll likely bring: 5+ years’ experience building distributed systems in Go within cloud ...

Software Engineering Lead – PBSA Operations Platform (React, TypeScript)

Hiring Organisation
Viridis Real Estate Services
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
backend architecture well enough to collaborate effectively (Node.js, Azure SQL, ASP.NET Core, REST/GraphQL). Know how to design multi-tenant SaaS or distributed systems. Care deeply about clean code, DX, reusability, and practical UX. Can think strategically but move fast like a startup engineer. Are outcome-driven ...

Vice President of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
numi
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
annualised revenue. Backed by Tier-1 global banks and growth equity.The company has just completed a replatforming — moving from a legacy stack to a distributed, API-first Capital Platform. Now it’s entering the next phase: moving from good infrastructure to great execution — and unlocking 10x growth … Raise the hiring bar — immediately adding 15–20 engineers for Q1 product launches Ensure engineering excellence and velocity become Liberis’ product advantage Tech stack Distributed microservices, API-first .NET/Python backend, Next.js frontend GCP + Azure across infrastructure and ML MLOps + AI tooling: Gemini, Claude, Co-pilot ...

Back End Developer

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
grow alongside the company, get in touch. The Role My client is hiring a Backend Developer who’s passionate about building scalable, reliable backend systems in a modern stack. You’ll be one of the first engineering hires, which means you’ll play a key role in shaping their … platforms Docker, GitHub Actions, and automated testing What They're Looking For Strong backend development experience (Node.js or similar) A solid understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and database design Good instincts around performance, security, and scalability Someone comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments A proactive mindset ...