8 of 8 Distributed Architecture Jobs in London

Backend Engineer – Build Scalable, High‐Impact Financial Infrastructure

Hiring Organisation
Albert Bow
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
looking for someone who wants to work on high‐availability, secure, global financial infrastructure powering millions of users. You’ll work across modern backend architecture, building services that are fast, resilient, secure and built to scale , all while collaborating closely with product, mobile, and frontend teams. What … Work On Designing and improving backend services that power web + mobile applications Building and maintaining high‐performance APIs and distributed microservices Solving problems around scalability, reliability, security, and automation Working with modern API protocols including GraphQL and gRPC Enhancing the platform that connects both traditional and on‐chain ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
StreetID
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
structures, and design patterns. Familiarity with market risk, credit risk, or counterparty risk concepts. Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Solace, Kafka, or RabbitMQ) and distributed architecture. Solid understanding of multi-threaded and low-latency system design. Exposure to quant libraries, risk factor decomposition, or sensitivities is a strong plus. ...

Staff Software Engineer - Back End

Hiring Organisation
Capital One UK
Location
London, UK
develop engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning What we’re looking for Deep expertise in Java Deep expertise in system design and distributed architectures Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) Proven experience setting a multi-team technical ...

Senior Python/ Java Engineer - Backend

Hiring Organisation
Principle
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
looking for Strong commercial experience with Java and/or Python Hands-on experience delivering systems on AWS Solid understanding of cloud-native and distributed architectures Exposure to AI/ML platforms, i deally LLM-based solutions (e.g. RAG, OpenAI, Claude) Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments Interested ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Team Lead)

Hiring Organisation
Futuria
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
where you'll split your time between writing production code and mentoring engineers. You'll lead a cross-functional engineering team working across our distributed platform stack. You're accountable for your team's execution, code quality, testing practices, and continuous improvement. This is NOT a product management role … Champion effective use of AI development tools across your team Foster culture of learning, experimentation, and knowledge sharing Work with Head of Engineering on architecture, partner with product and design teams About You You're a strong senior engineer ready to lead a team but who still loves writing ...

Senior Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
large-scale refactoring initiative across a complex, multi-service platform. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys untangling legacy code, improving architecture, and leaving systems in a measurably better state than they found them. You'll combine deep engineering capability with pragmatic technical leadership to deliver … scalable services. What you'll be doing: Lead end-to-end refactoring across multiple backend technology stacks Redesign and modernise the messaging and event architecture Improve database performance, reliability, and schema design Reduce technical debt while keeping business disruption to a minimum Define and embed engineering standards and maintainability ...

Equities Risk Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Barclays
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
ready applications designed for reliability, observability, and stable behaviour under market stress. Experience with derivatives risk, reactive or event-driven systems, and latency-sensitive distributed architectures will support the delivery of scalable, production-grade solutions. To be successful, you should have: Solid Java & concurrency fundamentals-comfortable with threads, executors … Some other highly valued skills may include: Working understanding of derivatives risk concepts Exposure to reactive programming or event‐driven systems Experience with large distributed systems, latency & throughput sensitive You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant to success in this role, such as risk and controls, change ...

Lead Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Engineer or senior-level backend engineer, using Python or another modern backend language Proven ability to design, build, and evolve scalable backend systems within distributed architectures Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including system design, performance, and reliability Experience influencing architecture and technical direction across services or teams ...