1 to 25 of 236 Distributed Systems Jobs in England

Staff Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Amicus
Location
England, United Kingdom
Staff Backend Engineer (Go) – Distributed Systems Remote-First | Up to £170,000 + Bonus + Equity We're partnered with one of the world's fastest-growing cybersecurity companies, a profitable, product-led organisation that has already achieved unicorn status and continues to scale at an exceptional pace. … strategically important architecture and platform initiatives across the business. The Opportunity This is a genuinely high-impact Staff-level position focused on solving complex distributed systems challenges at scale. The engineering organisation is undertaking a major platform transformation, rebuilding critical services with an AI-native approach, migrating legacy ...

Senior Software Engineer - Scala

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
revenues exceeding$1 billion, currently expanding its Manchester engineering function. This is a rare opportunity to join a genuinely high-performing engineering team building distributed systems that process vast amounts of data and power critical products used globally. I'm particularly interested in speaking with engineers who have … fundamental to success. The Opportunity As a Senior Scala Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and developing highly scalable backend systems, influencing technical direction, and helping to shape the future of a rapidly growing engineering organisation. Working alongside some of the industry's strongest engineers ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75,000
environments. This is not a slow-moving enterprise IT environment. The engineering teams here are focused on modern product development, cloud-native architecture, scalable distributed systems, and building high-quality software that directly impacts real users and real-world transactions at scale. Youll join a collaborative engineering culture … teams to deliver genuinely modern SaaS products. The environment is heavily engineering-led, with a strong focus on: cloud-native development scalable APIs and distributed systems event-driven architecture CI/CD and automation engineering quality and clean architecture modern software delivery practices product-centric engineering Tech Stack ...

Python Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £550/ day Outside IR35
Senior Python Backend Engineer - Real-Time Distributed Systems £550/day Outside IR35 Watford/Hybrid (Initial onsite, then mainly remote) 4-month contract Were working with a highly engineering-led technology business building large-scale real-time backend systems within a distributed Azure environment. This … high-level solution designers. We are specifically looking for deeply hands-on Python backend engineers who are comfortable operating at implementation level within complex distributed systems. The environment is heavily focused on: Real-time event-driven processing High-throughput backend services Distributed microservice architectures Low-latency data ingestion ...

Solace Messaging Administrator

Hiring Organisation
Searchability (UK) Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
ADMINISTRATOR - LONDON KEY POINTS Salary up to £130,000 + Bonus 4 days per week onsite in Canary Wharf Supporting critical enterprise Solace messaging systems Opportunity to work within a low latency, high throughput trading environment ABOUT THE CLIENT We're supporting a globally recognised financial services and technology … optimise a critical low latency messaging environment. You'll be joining a highly technical, collaborative team responsible for delivering resilient, high throughput messaging systems that underpin pricing, trading, and other mission critical applications across a complex global infrastructure. THE BENEFITS Competitive bonus structure Exposure to enterprise-scale messaging infrastructure ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Zorba Consulting Limited
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 100,000 - 120,000 Annual
Principal Software Engineer We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer with strong backend engineering expertise and a passion for scalable distributed systems. You will play a key role in shaping architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction across the platform. Join a fast-growing Banking SaaS provider … Java backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Integrating with payment platforms, banking infrastructure, FX/crypto providers, and card processors Driving architectural decisions across distributed systems and cloud infrastructure Leading technical design reviews and influencing engineering best practices Mentoring engineers and helping scale a high-performing engineering culture Designing ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Zorba Consulting Limited
Location
EC3, Broad Street, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£100000 - £120000/annum 25 days hols, Share Options, Healt
Principal Software Engineer We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer with strong backend engineering expertise and a passion for scalable distributed systems. You will play a key role in shaping architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction across the platform. Join a fast-growing Banking SaaS provider … Java backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Integrating with payment platforms, banking infrastructure, FX/crypto providers, and card processors Driving architectural decisions across distributed systems and cloud infrastructure Leading technical design reviews and influencing engineering best practices Mentoring engineers and helping scale a high-performing engineering culture Designing ...

Director, Principal Java Engineer (Investment Banking)

Hiring Organisation
Robert Walters
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£140,000 - £170,000 per annum
scaling internal technology capabilities through high-quality engineering and platform design. The environment is highly technical, hands-on, and focused on building reliable distributed systems within a regulated environment. Key Responsibilities Design and build scalable, distributed systems handling high volumes of financial and transactional data Contribute … directly to architecture, system design, and hands-on software development Drive engineering best practices across automation, testing, observability, and performance Build resilient, production-grade systems with a strong focus on reliability and scalability Work across the full software development lifecycle from design through to production support Partner closely with ...

Senior Software Developer - Relocation supported

Hiring Organisation
SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
risk technology platform in partnership with an established hedge fund. They’re creating a high-performance engineering hub in Newcastle, focused on building serious systems used in real financial decision-making. This isn’t a maintenance role. You’ll be joining a small, high-calibre engineering team building core … components of a live trading platform in a Microsoft stack, using modern C#/.NET to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. What you’ll be doing You’ll work across the core platform used for trading and financial operations, including Designing and building high-performance backend ...

Staff AI Product Engineer -Python - London

Hiring Organisation
Transparent Technology
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Staff Product Engineer | London Hybrid/Remote | AI x FinTech | Python, AI Workflows, Distributed Systems | £120k-£200k + Equity A VC-backed AI company is rebuilding how accounting work gets done, using agentic workflows and AI automation to eliminate the high-volume operational work that has resisted meaningful … automation for decades. Working with some of the world's largest accounting firms, they are building enterprise-grade AI systems on top of ERP platforms like SAP, NetSuite and Workday to automate complex financial workflows at scale. They are looking for a Staff Product Engineer to own meaningful product ...

AI Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
York, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £800 to £1,000 per day
Infrastructure Engineer (GPU, Distributed Systems, AI Platforms) A leading AI business is hiring an AI Infrastructure Engineer who has experience with GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms. Hybrid/Remote options available. Outside IR35. Paying between £800 to £1000 per day. Experience and skills required … Infrastructure Engineer, GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms ...

Platform Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Hiring Organisation
We Love Alfa
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 120,000 - 180,000 Annual
write strong Python, work deeply with Kubernetes, design and build platform applications, and operate close to bare metal infrastructure. You will help build the systems that make GPU compute easier to provision, operate, secure and scale across AI infrastructure environments. This is not a generic DevOps role. … provisioned, operated and monitored Translate operational pain points into scalable platform features Improve platform reliability, observability and performance Work across Linux, networking, storage and distributed systems Collaborate with product, security, infrastructure, networking and compute teams Help build the platform layer for AI infrastructure designed to operate at industrial ...

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Atarus
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Senior/Staff ML Systems Engineer 📍 London (Hybrid) 💰 Up to £150k 🏢 Well-funded AI company (£100m+ raised) We’re working with a fast-growing AI company building production systems for training and deploying cutting-edge multimodal models across video, embeddings, and large-scale metadata. You’ll join … small, highly technical team owning the ML infrastructure and systems layer end-to-end — from large-scale data ingestion and training pipelines through to high-performance production inference. What you’ll be doing 👇 • Building and scaling infrastructure for massive multimodal datasets • Improving distributed ML training systems using ...

Senior Software Engineer - AI - Remote

Hiring Organisation
Atarus
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
across real-time AI systems. What You’ll Be Doing ⚙️ • Building and scaling backend platform services powering real-time AI products • Breaking down monolithic systems into high-performance distributed services • Improving observability, deployment processes, and platform reliability • Working across LLM, speech, and telephony infrastructure • Optimising systems … overall developer experience What They’re Looking For 🧠 • 5+ years backend engineering experience • Strong Python engineering background with some Go experience • Experience building distributed systems and microservices • Comfortable working on performance-critical, real-time systems • Experience decomposing monolithic architectures • Strong fundamentals around system design, scalability, and reliability ...

Senior Software Engineer - AI - Remote

Hiring Organisation
Atarus
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
across real-time AI systems. What You’ll Be Doing ⚙️ • Building and scaling backend platform services powering real-time AI products • Breaking down monolithic systems into high-performance distributed services • Improving observability, deployment processes, and platform reliability • Working across LLM, speech, and telephony infrastructure • Optimising systems … overall developer experience What They’re Looking For 🧠 • 5+ years backend engineering experience • Strong Python engineering background with some Go experience • Experience building distributed systems and microservices • Comfortable working on performance-critical, real-time systems • Experience decomposing monolithic architectures • Strong fundamentals around system design, scalability, and reliability ...

Senior Software Engineer - AI - Remote

Hiring Organisation
Atarus
Location
Leigh, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
across real-time AI systems. What You’ll Be Doing ⚙️ • Building and scaling backend platform services powering real-time AI products • Breaking down monolithic systems into high-performance distributed services • Improving observability, deployment processes, and platform reliability • Working across LLM, speech, and telephony infrastructure • Optimising systems … overall developer experience What They’re Looking For 🧠 • 5+ years backend engineering experience • Strong Python engineering background with some Go experience • Experience building distributed systems and microservices • Comfortable working on performance-critical, real-time systems • Experience decomposing monolithic architectures • Strong fundamentals around system design, scalability, and reliability ...

Senior Software Engineer - AI - Remote

Hiring Organisation
Atarus
Location
Central London / West End, London, United Kingdom
across real-time AI systems. What You’ll Be Doing ⚙️ • Building and scaling backend platform services powering real-time AI products • Breaking down monolithic systems into high-performance distributed services • Improving observability, deployment processes, and platform reliability • Working across LLM, speech, and telephony infrastructure • Optimising systems … overall developer experience What They’re Looking For 🧠 • 5+ years backend engineering experience • Strong Python engineering background with some Go experience • Experience building distributed systems and microservices • Comfortable working on performance-critical, real-time systems • Experience decomposing monolithic architectures • Strong fundamentals around system design, scalability, and reliability ...

Storage Engineer (Weka/Ceph) - Up to £180k + Industry Leading Bonus

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
some of the most demanding compute environments in the industry. You’ll play a key role in designing and scaling next-generation enterprise storage systems supporting high-performance tech and research workloads globally. Role Design, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade distributed storage infrastructure Architect and maintain high-performance … automation, monitoring, and observability improvements across storage services Perform capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management at scale Troubleshoot complex storage and performance issues across distributed systems Work closely with compute, networking, and application engineering teams globally Evaluate and integrate emerging storage technologies and architectures Contribute to long-term ...

OSS/BSS Solution architect

Hiring Organisation
IBU CONSULTING LTD
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
need an experienced solution architect with 8-12+ years who works closely with the IT Systems Architect on internal BSS systems modernisation, vendor rationalisation and application portfolio simplification. Embedded in workstreams, you break down strategic designs into implementable features whilst ensuring system stability, architectural consistency and long … processes and integration patterns at implementation level - Integration architecture: microservices, API gateways, event-driven architectures, event brokers (Kafka), queues - handling 120+ integration points across systems and legacy stacks - Lead-to-Cash (L2C) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) solutions in Tier-1 telecom operator environments - TMF standards: Product Ordering (TMF641 ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Synchro
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
matters - from scratch. We're partnering with a high-growth fintech accelerator embedded within a major financial services organisation. They're not modernising legacy systems or patching old code. They're building brand-new consumer fintech products from the ground up, with serious investment, a significant product roadmap … Tech Stack: • Java/Kotlin (JVM ecosystem) • Spring/Spring Boot • Microservices architecture • AWS/GCP cloud-native platforms • Docker & Kubernetes • Messaging & streaming systems (Kafka etc.) • Observability & distributed tracing tooling What You'll Be Doing: • Designing and building resilient, distributed systems at scale • Contributing to architectural ...

Senior Quantitative Developer / Research & Data Eng. - LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM

Hiring Organisation
Park Lane Recruitment Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£250,000 - £600,000 per annum
UNITED KINGDOM Senior Quantitative Developer/Research & Data Engineer - LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM Primary Skills - Python, C++, quantitative, research, market data, simulation frameworks Secondary Skills - distributed systems, cloud computing, execution systems, performance optimization, data pipelines, Linux No. Positions - 3 Remote Status - No Remote Client Willing to Sponsor … alongside world-class quantitative researchers, traders, and technologists while building the core platforms that power systematic investment strategies. Engineers in this group own critical systems end-to-end and play a direct role in enabling research, simulation, data processing, and production trading.The environment is highly collaborative, technically demanding ...

Senior Software Engineer (Node.js / TypeScript / AWS)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80,000
next-generation real-time platform from the ground up. Working closely with a small senior engineering team, you will design and deliver scalable backend systems, cloud infrastructure and distributed architectures capable of supporting high-concurrency real-time experiences. This is a hands-on role with significant influence over … technical direction, infrastructure design and platform foundations. Key Responsibilities Design and build scalable backend services and cloud infrastructure Architect event-driven and distributed systems on AWS Develop APIs, microservices and internal tooling Improve reliability, observability and developer workflows Conduct load testing and performance optimisation Contribute to frontend applications ...

Backend Node.JS Developer - London - PropTech AI StartUp

Hiring Organisation
Transparent Technology
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
backend architecture, APIs, and microservices that power an AI assistant operating in real-time production environments. You'll design and build scalable systems using Node.js and TypeScript, working across REST APIs, event-driven architecture, data pipelines, and distributed systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability as the platform … building and maintaining scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations, designing microservices and event-driven architectures, implementing CI/CD, observability, and monitoring, and ensuring systems are secure, reliable, and performant. You'll also play a key role in technical strategy, code quality, and engineering standards, helping shape the future ...

Senior Java Software Engineer (Pricing API) - 5 days - London

Hiring Organisation
Salt Search
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£400 - £500 per day
customers weekly, across all platforms with global expansion ahead. This role involves designing and scaling a high-performance, internet-facing API operating across distributed environments. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and building resilient systems at scale, this could be a great fit. What … Doing Designing and building scalable backend systems using Java and the JVM ecosystem Developing clean, maintainable code from product requirements Applying TDD/BDD practices and modern engineering principles Building and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure Working on highly available distributed systems Troubleshooting production issues and driving root ...

Principal Rust Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter
Location
East London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£160,000 - £180,000 per annum
firm in hiring a Rust Developer to join a highly influential Product team. This group sits at the core of the business, building the distributed platforms, internal services, and compute frameworks that underpin trading, quant research, and large-scale data processing across the organisation. This is a deeply technical … engineering role focused on high-performance systems, scalability, and platform reliability. You’ll work on foundational technology used by multiple engineering and investment teams, helping to shape the infrastructure powering a world-class trading environment. What you’ll do: • Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed systems ...