1 to 25 of 147 Distributed Systems Jobs in London

Senior Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter LTD
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
internal compute frameworks that underpin their trading and research platforms. This is a high-impact role, working at the intersection of software engineering and distributed systems, with the opportunity to build scalable tools and frameworks used across the business. What youll do: Design, develop, and maintain performant, reliable … tools and platforms that streamline workflows across investment and technology teams Contribute to code reviews and best practices, improving overall development quality Work across distributed systems, containers, and automation pipelines to deliver scalable solutions What were looking for: 6+ years professional software development experience Strong proficiency in high ...

AI Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
build of this platform, shape its architecture, and partner with deep technical SMEs across the business to ensure our AI systems operate with the highest levels of performance, security, and responsible oversight The client is investing in the next generation of AI capabilities, with safety, resilience, and trust … core. We're creating a cutting-edge AI Control Tower -a centralised platform and dashboard that monitors, governs, and optimises AI systems across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering. This role ...

Senior Software Engineer, Trading Systems

Hiring Organisation
Ripple
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
responsibility from Day 1. You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact and have the opportunity to drive the architectural roadmap, whilst looking … breadth of trading strategies and products. Building towards an event-driven architecture to connect the logical building blocks and provide integrated communication between trading systems and to other partners. Continuing to support and complement Ripple’s Payments, Custody and Stablecoin business units WHAT YOU’LL DO: Be an ambitious ...

Senior Software Engineer - Quant Firm

Hiring Organisation
Dex
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
technical challenge. What You’ll Work On Architect Low-Latency Infrastructure: Design and implement the critical path for trading execution, building order management systems and market connectivity layers where performance is measured in microseconds. Scale Data Pipelines: Engineer elegant, distributed systems capable of ingesting and processing petabytes … performance across networking, I/O, and compute layers, squeezing maximum efficiency out of hardware. Build World-Class Observability: Create robust monitoring and telemetry systems to provide real-time insights into pipeline health, trading activity, and model behavior. Work with the Best: Work side-by-side with world-class ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
iDPP
Location
Crofton Park, Greater London, UK
defence and health applications . Please read the information in this job post thoroughly to understand exactly what is expected of potential candidates. Their systems operate in highly regulated, mission-critical environments where reliability, security, and performance truly matter. Were looking for a Lead Software Engineer to take technical … platform components, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers as we scale. This is a hands-on leadership role youll be writing code, shaping systems, and directly influencing the future of the platform. This is a genuine ground-floor opportunity to shape both the technology and the engineering culture within ...

AI Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
capabilities that underpin AI observability and governance across the bank. This is a hands-on, high-impact role at the intersection of AI governance, distributed systems, observability, and platform engineering . You will develop core components of the platform, contribute to its evolution, and ensure our AI systems … capture metrics such as: Model performance, drift, and degradation Operational and service health Security posture and policy adherence Guardrail compliance for ML and GenAI systems Governance and risk indicators Implement observability tooling using logging, metrics, tracing, and event-driven patterns. Apply secure-by-design principles, strong IAM practices ...

Satellite Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
client is leading the way in next-generation communications, building laser communication systems and software-defined networking platforms for aerospace and deep-space applications. With technology acquired from Google, theyre creating solutions that let satellites, aircraft, and even cislunar networks communicate seamlessly essentially bringing space and Earth … What Youll Be Doing Building and maintaining delay-tolerant networking products, platforms, and APIs using Rust, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers Working on scalable and distributed systems using Kubernetes Debugging, optimising, and improving systems for full-scale production environments Collaborating with front-end developers to integrate user-facing ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
GTreasury
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer Lead complex engineering work | Azure | .NET | Distributed Systems At GTreasury, we build software that sits at the heart of the CFO’s office. Our SaaS platform handles complex financial workflows at global scale - and we’re investing heavily in the next phase of growth. … build it, you run it) Influence architecture, code quality, and engineering standards Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decision-making Support production systems in a mature DevOps environment 👀 What You Bring 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience Strong expertise in .NET and SQL-based systems Experience building ...

Java Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Kneu Health
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£60,000
scaling across the UK and US with proven outcomes and growing demand. The Role As a Backend Engineer , youll build the secure, scalable systems that power Kneus products. Youll work on services and infrastructure that clinicians rely on for decision-making, enable patients to access impactful tools … maintain backend services that are secure, reliable, and scalable Design and develop REST APIs for mobile and/or web applications Contribute to distributed systems and microservice architectures Support database design (SQL) and backend architecture decisions Improve release processes and deployment workflows Collaborate closely with engineering and data ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£53.85 - £61.68 per hour
Hybrid) Contract Duration: 6 months Join a specialized Applied AI team driving innovation in business operations. The group accelerates AI transformation by developing agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure to automate workflows and drive efficiency. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer (L5) to deliver production-grade code while … architecting autonomous AI workflows. This role combines technical expertise, product thinking, and scaling AI solutions across complex systems, working in a small agile team within a larger engineering organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered systems that enhance global sales workflows. Build scalable backend services ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£53.85 - £61.68 per hour
Hybrid) Contract Duration: 6 months Join a specialized Applied AI team driving innovation in business operations. The group accelerates AI transformation by developing agentic systems and full-stack infrastructure to automate workflows and drive efficiency. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer (L5) to deliver production-grade code while … architecting autonomous AI workflows. This role combines technical expertise, product thinking, and scaling AI solutions across complex systems, working in a small agile team within a larger engineering organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered systems that enhance global sales workflows. Build scalable backend services ...

Low Latency C++ Developer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
days profiling, tuning, and pushing latency down while keeping reliability high at scale. This is a proper engineering seat for people who enjoy deep systems work on Linux, care about determinism, and like solving hard production problems with measured results. What you will do Develop and maintain low latency … trading platforms on Linux prioritising throughput, predictability, and stability Create high-performance distributed systems that facilitate global electronic trading processes Analyse and optimise C++ code to minimise latency and maximise throughput Troubleshoot real-time issues using packet captures, core dumps, and runtime profilers within live trading environments Utilise ...

Senior Java Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
McCabe & Barton
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
data sources. Our stack combines Java and Python, with foundations of Kafka, ArcticDB, MongoDB, and more. This is an opportunity to tackle complex distributed systems challenges at exceptional scale. What you bring to the role Experience working with large scale messaging and downsampling solutions Strong academic record … gather requirements from stakeholders Experience working in Asset Management/Investment Management/Investment Banking/Financial Services Advantageous to have • Familiarity with distributed systems and orchestration • Experience with performance optimization and large-scale data processing • Contributions to open-source projects • Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs ...

Rust/C++ Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Rust, C++, Data Structures, Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Multithreading McGregor Boyall are partnered with a leading quant investment manager hiring in London. The fund implements a tech-centric approach to trading: computer science and quant finance have always been core to the fund's identity as they continue … execute the market across all liquid assets. The Data Infrastructure team are seeking a software developer with good knowledge of multithreaded, distributed systems. The fund is highly data-driven and this role will offer significant exposure to critical systems within the company. Lots of variation and a chance ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£60 - £80 per hour
Team: RegTech (Fintech Business Unit) The Stack Primary: Java (Expert level) & Microservices. Data: Cassandra, Hadoop, MySQL. Cloud: AWS (Kinesis, Step Functions, EC2). Focus: Distributed systems, batch processing, and data integrity. The Mission Build and scale automated KYC/KYP (Know Your Customer/Partner) and regulatory compliance … identity verification, risk assessment, and onboarding for a global partner base. Requirements Experience: 3+ years in server-side software development. Architecture: Building highly scalable distributed systems and data pipelines. Expertise: Unit/Integration testing, architecture reviews, and defining SLOs. Mindset: 'Can-do' attitude; able to bridge technical problems ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £150,000 per annum
complex, data-driven platforms. This role requires someone who can lead multi-disciplinary teams, improve engineering execution, and drive technical excellence across high-scale distributed systems and machine-learning environments. Required Experience Leadership of engineering organisations of 20 or more across multiple disciplines, including backend, web, data … DevOps. Proven track record designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems and high-volume data pipelines. Strong background in cloud-native architectures and modern data stacks such as Spark or Databricks. Experience working closely with Data Science teams, including delivering production-grade ML models and pipelines. Solid understanding ...

C++ Developer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Quant Finance McGregor Boyall have partnered with a tech-first quant investment manager in London: Someone with experience in Windows-centric, multithreaded C++ and distributed systems could directly shape the performance and reliability of the firm's core trading platforms and UI surfaces - the very systems that … latency/high throughput environment - Expert with Windows-based development with proven experience with STL, MFC, Wx Widgets or Win32 - Advanced knowledge of distributed systems - Linux Red Hat essential Nice to have: - Extensive front office experience in trading - Knowledge of Equities, Futures or Options - Experience working on market ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£125,000 - £150,000 per annum
will lead multiple engineering teams across data, ML, web, QA and DevOps disciplines to deliver a platform that processes massive datasets, powers complex distributed systems and provides high-value insights to enterprise clients. You will shape engineering strategy, strengthen execution and drive the organisation's evolution … engineering roadmap across all product and platform areas Lead architectural direction for data processing, machine learning pipelines and web application development Ensure systems are scalable, reliable and capable of handling large-scale data and evolving ML workloads Introduce and measure engineering KPIs Drive improvements in delivery processes, release quality ...

Founding Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Explore Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
join the team in central London. This is a unique opportunity to help build a transformative new platform at the intersection of software systems, automation, and intelligent infrastructure. Founded by leading academics and proven entrepreneurs , the business is backed by top-tier investors and is solving complex technical problems … that demand creativity, rigour, and ambition. The Role Build and own core systems and architecture from the ground up Work closely with the founding team on product direction and technical strategy Make key decisions across the full stack — from infrastructure to user-facing elements Contribute to the early engineering ...

Agentic Developer - Building guardrails for autonomous AI

Hiring Organisation
governr
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
building the infrastructure that makes autonomous AI safe for enterprise deployment. Not governance theatre. Not compliance checkboxes. Actual technical systems that can monitor, quantify, and govern AI agents operating with autonomy in production environments. If you've been following the trajectory from static models to agentic systems … competitive window before large incumbents build comparable capabilities to stay relevant. The Role As an Agentic Developer at governr, you'll build the core systems that monitor, analyse, and govern autonomous AI agents in production. This isn't traditional software engineering with well-worn patterns. You're designing architectures ...

OpenShift SRE SME

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
focus on automation. Work and collaborate across teams, such as Applications, Hardware, and Network. Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies. Develop systems, primarily in Shell scripting, YAML, Ruby, Python and Go language, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation. Establish and enforce SRE best practices through … call rotation. Your Profile Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience Hands-on experience with OpenShift virtualization and Kubernetes administration. Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains. Experience managing a production service with RedHat, Windows and ESXi. Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking. ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CipherTek Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
while other days will be remote. Desired technical Skills: Java (Core & Advanced): Strong proficiency in Java, including multi-threading, collections, and concurrency. FIC Trading Systems: Experience developing, maintaining, or supporting electronic trading platforms. Messaging Protocols: Familiarity with FIX protocol, MQ, JMS, or similar messaging solutions. API Development: Experience with … Spring MVC, and related technologies. Database Technologies: Strong SQL skills; experience with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL solutions. Distributed Systems: Understanding of distributed computing concepts and technologies (e.g., microservices, caching, clustering). Testing Frameworks: Experience with JUnit, Mockito, or similar testing ...

Senior Data Engineer, SQL, RDBMS, Python, Celery, RabbitMQ, Pt Remote

Hiring Organisation
Carrington Recruitment Solutions Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£95,000
infrastructure and framework choices for data pipelining and data management Manage complex initiatives by setting project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables Collaborate effectively with distributed team members across multiple time zones, including offshore development teams Skills required: Proven track record building scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) in production Expert … PySpark, Celery and RabbitMQ skills; deep experience with AWS data stack (Glue, OpenSearch, RDS) Expert skills within SQL with experience in both transactional RDBMS systems and distributed systems Hands-on with Lakehouse technologies (Apache Iceberg, S3 Tables, StarRocks) Strong grasp of data governance, schema design, and quality ...

Senior DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
True North Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £130,000 per annum
models and other compute-intensive workloads. The platform combines modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, GPU clusters, and developer-first tooling to support mission-critical AI systems operating across multiple regions. They’re now looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the infrastructure backbone — someone who enjoys operating … complex systems at scale and working closely with infrastructure, ML, and product engineering teams. What You’ll Be Doing AI Cloud Infrastructure Design, build, and operate highly available, secure infrastructure supporting AI inference, fine-tuning, and data processing workloads Manage multi-region Kubernetes clusters , including GPU-heavy environments Implement ...

Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Radley James
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
next wave of technological advancements. Role Overview: As a Senior Python Engineer, you will be at the heart of our technology platform, building robust systems that enhance our trading strategies, risk management, and data analysis. You will collaborate closely with quants, data scientists, and traders, providing Python-based solutions … pipelines to process large datasets from multiple sources, including real-time market data and fundamental data. Implement robust APIs and microservices to integrate trading systems, analytics platforms, and external data providers. Optimize performance and scalability of existing systems, ensuring low-latency trade execution and real-time risk monitoring. ...