1 to 25 of 64 Remote/Hybrid Distributed Systems Jobs in London

Rust Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Role : Rust Software Engineer – Distributed Systems Client : Scientific Quant Fund Compensation : Up to £225,000 Base + Bonus Location : London (Hybrid) Overview A scientific quant fund is seeking a high-performance Rust Software Engineer to join a core technology team building highly available, distributed systems that … strong focus on correctness, performance, and scalable system design. The Role As a Rust Software Engineer, you will design and build resilient, low‐latency distributed systems that operate under extreme load and strict availability requirements. Key responsibilities include: Designing and developing high-performance distributed systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rust Distributed Systems Engineer – London (Hybrid)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hunter Bond is seeking a Rust Distributed Systems Software Engineer in London. This elite company is known for its exceptional tech standards and talented individuals who are passionate about using cutting-edge technology. The role involves designing scalable, production-grade distributed systems and working on functional ...

Principal Full Stack Engineer & Architecture Lead

Hiring Organisation
Command Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£100000 - £110000/annum
engineering excellence while remaining hands-on with development. This role would suit someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, mentoring engineers, and building modern distributed systems within a fast-moving product-led environment. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Technical Leadership Lead platform architecture and technical design decisions Define scalable, secure … directly to backend and frontend production code Build scalable applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Next.js Design and develop AWS serverless and event-driven systems Develop and optimise PostgreSQL databases and queries Support engineering teams with the delivery of complex technical initiatives Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure Design and maintain ...

Senior Data Engineer - Scala/Spark

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £550 per day
Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and operating large-scale data platforms that support advanced machine learning and recommendation systems used by millions of users globally. This is an opportunity to work on highly complex distributed systems, developing production-grade data pipelines … performance, reliability and operational health of production data pipelines. Develop tooling and infrastructure that supports machine learning workflow execution and deployment. Optimise data processing systems for throughput, scalability and efficiency. Collaborate closely with Data Engineers, ML Engineers and Research teams to deliver high-quality datasets and platform capabilities. Identify ...

Principal Full Stack Engineer & Architecture Lead

Hiring Organisation
BCT Resourcing
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £90,000 per annum
engineering excellence while remaining hands-on with development.This role would suit someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, mentoring engineers, and building modern distributed systems within a fast-moving product-led environment.Key ResponsibilitiesArchitecture & Technical Leadership * Lead platform architecture and technical design decisions * Define scalable, secure, and maintainable engineering … directly to backend and frontend production code * Build scalable applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Next.js * Design and develop AWS serverless and event-driven systems * Develop and optimise PostgreSQL databases and queries * Support engineering teams with the delivery of complex technical initiativesCloud, DevOps & Infrastructure * Design and maintain CI/ ...

Rust Distributed Systems Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Role: Rust Distributed Systems Software Engineer Client: Elite Company Compensation: Up to £200k + Bonus Location: London (Hybrid) Overview This firm is an elite company with high tech standards who have previously set tech world records. They are made up of exceptionally talented individuals who are passionate about … Role Team Alignment: They will find the best team to suit your skillset and interests. Development: Designing and developing scalable, tested, and production grade distributed systems. R&D: Working on functional programming, either with pre-existing languages (such as Rust and Erlang) or purpose-built languages similar to OCaml. ...

Software Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
I3 Resourcing Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
engineering team while remaining deeply involved in technical delivery and architecture. You'll work closely with Product, Data, and Engineering leadership to build scalable systems, improve developer productivity, and drive adoption of modern AI-assisted engineering practices. This is a collaborative, low-ego environment where leadership is measured … platform engineering Lead architecture reviews and technical design discussions Drive engineering best practices across quality, testing, performance, observability, and security Design and build scalable distributed systems using modern technologies Identify technical risks and remove delivery blockers Partner with senior engineering leaders on long-term technical strategy AI-Driven ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£130,000 - £150,000 per annum
heart of the AI infrastructure ecosystem. You'll take ownership of core platform engineering, working closely with the founding team to build scalable systems that underpin a fast-growing, mission-critical product. The role offers significant autonomy, technical influence and long-term upside. THE COMPANY Our client … infrastructure that powers modern AI systems. They work with sophisticated clients to provide deep insight into markets such as compute, cloud platforms and distributed systems. Having recently raised significant funding and preparing for further growth, the business is now investing heavily in its engineering capability. This role has been ...

Staff Backend Engineer - Go & Distributed Systems (Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
scalable backend services, analyze user data, and contribute to system design discussions. The ideal candidate has strong experience in backend development, is comfortable with distributed systems, and embraces cross-functional collaboration. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and a comprehensive benefits package. #J-18808-Ljbffr ...

Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Cluster Infrastructure)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role Anthropic's Infrastructure organization is foundational to our mission of developing AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable. The systems we build determine how quickly we can train new models, how reliably … clusters at Anthropic. We build agent-driven automation for cluster provisioning and lifecycle management across all major cloud providers and our own datacenters. Our systems stand up clusters that are interconnected with high bandwidth, secure-by-default, and able to automatically drain and recover in response to failure. ...

Contract Observability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Xpertise
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 650 Daily
Real Time Observability Engineer | Contract | £650 INSIDE IR35 | Hybrid/Global Platform | High Performance Systems We are working with a global Real Time data platform operating across multiple markets and high-throughput trading environments. Key responsibilities Build and maintain application-layer observability components that aggregate and correlate telemetry across … distributed services into unified system-wide views Design and implement logic for hotspot detection and data quality measurement across latency, completeness, accuracy, and stability Develop telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across Real Time distributed systems Extend low-level instrumentation approaches where required, including Kernel-level ...

Senior Python Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£60,000 - £80,000 per annum
teams Driving best practices in software engineering, code quality, and performance Participating in architecture reviews and technical decision-making Identifying and implementing improvements to systems, processes, and tooling Supporting cloud-native deployments and infrastructure automation What We're Looking For Essential Professional Python development experience Strong understanding of software … design patterns and engineering principles Experience with frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask Solid knowledge of RESTful APIs and distributed systems Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases Strong testing experience (PyTest, unit, integration, and automated testing) Experience with Git and modern CI/CD pipelines Excellent ...

Rust Developer - Electronic Trading Platform

Hiring Organisation
James Joseph Associates Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
environment where software engineering sits directly alongside trading, quant research and market-facing strategy. The successful candidate will work on sophisticated electronic trading systems, helping to build and improve platforms that operate in highly volatile, 24/7 markets where latency, reliability and quality of execution are critical. … electronic and systematic trading. You will work closely with experienced traders, quantitative researchers and other software engineers to develop, improve and optimise trading systems used across digital asset markets. The role sits close to the trading function and offers direct exposure to automated execution, exchange connectivity, risk management, options ...

Rust Developer - Electronic Trading Platform

Hiring Organisation
James Joseph Associates
Location
EC2N, Broad Street, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£100000 - £170000/annum 40-80% Bonus + Pension + Benefits
environment where software engineering sits directly alongside trading, quant research and market-facing strategy. The successful candidate will work on sophisticated electronic trading systems, helping to build and improve platforms that operate in highly volatile, 24/7 markets where latency, reliability and quality of execution are critical. … electronic and systematic trading. You will work closely with experienced traders, quantitative researchers and other software engineers to develop, improve and optimise trading systems used across digital asset markets. The role sits close to the trading function and offers direct exposure to automated execution, exchange connectivity, risk management, options ...

Senior Software Architect

Hiring Organisation
ECM Selection (Holdings) Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
platform based on founders’ track record in this field, they are seeking a Senior Software Architect/Developer to put architecture and systems in place, and go on to grow and lead a team of software engineers. You will have: Significant experience in software architecture, system design and development … complex engineering or scientific software systems. Technological breadth across potential development languages and platforms including desktop, web, and distributed computing which may include the cloud. A proven ability to design scalable and extensible architectures; develop cloud infrastructure and distributed systems; and use modern front-end technologies; selecting ...

Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer (Senior)

Hiring Organisation
Salt Search
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Temporary
Salary
£500 - £800 per day
days onsite per month is required Inside of IR35 - will need to use an Umbrella Job Description: Emerging technologies such as cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and automated delivery pipelines are transforming how modern financial infrastructures are built and operated. The Innovation Tribe is driving this transformation … Compliance by Design Implement security controls (identity, access, secrets management, network security) in line with CISO and GTS requirements . Monitoring, Observability & Reliability Ensure systems are observable and resilient by implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization. Release & Deployment Support Support release processes, ensuring infrastructure readiness and smooth deployment ...

Principal / Lead Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Intec Select Ltd
Location
London, Billingsgate, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £700/day
secure environments Evaluate and integrate appropriate open-source technologies and third-party components Contribute to the design and delivery of scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems Collaboration & Team Development Act as a senior technical contributor within a high-performing engineering team Mentor engineers and help establish a strong … with business objectives Engage with external partners, suppliers, and stakeholders where required Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience leading or making significant contributions to complex distributed, cloud-native, or federated systems Strong software engineering expertise in Python, including backend development, automation, and infrastructure tooling Hands-on experience with ...

Go Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
itecopeople
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£60,000
looking for candidates with strong commercial experience in: Go/Golang backend development Full stack software engineering within Agile environments REST APIs, integrations and distributed systems React and modern frontend development CI/CD, Git and cloud-based delivery practices Docker and Kubernetes Code reviews, testing and engineering ...

Senior Staff+ Software Engineer (Kubernetes Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
response, and design processes (postmortems, runbooks, SLOs) that help the team avoid repeating failures Minimum qualifications Significant software engineering experience building and operating production distributed systems Proficiency in at least one systems-appropriate language (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, or C++) Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience (well beyond … from API behavior down to node and network-level root causes A track record of designing for reliability, correctness, and clear failure semantics in systems other engineers depend on Strong written and verbal communication; comfort building consensus with internal stakeholders Preferred qualifications Experience with Kubernetes internals or contributions: kube ...

Booking and Messaging Java Developer (COMBJP00001223)

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600/day Negotiable
Senior Java Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems & Messaging) Location: London, UK (Hybrid) Role Type: Permanent Tech Stack: Java 8+, Concurrency, Apache Kafka/JMS/TIBCO, Spring Boot, Microservices, Low-Latency About the Team & Platform We are building and scaling a complex, high-throughput, electronic trading platform distributed … data pipelines that ingest live trade feeds directly from external international exchanges and trading venues. What You Will Do Design, implement, and adapt complex distributed trading workflows to meet shifting market and business demands. Optimize high-throughput, low-latency asynchronous processing components to handle massive transaction volumes smoothly. Work ...

Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Backend Engineer to lead the evolution of a global platform supporting international expansion and acquisition integration. This role focuses on building and scaling transaction systems that enable global commerce, while evolving an existing real-time platform to support new markets. You will address backend capacity constraints and help design … senior engineering role requiring both high-quality delivery and strong technical leadership in ambiguous, high-scale environments. You will be expected to: Design scalable systems with correctness and failure modes considered from the outset Clarify and scope requirements before proposing solutions Make pragmatic trade-offs in system design, avoiding ...

Senior Gen AI Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £700 per day
powered applications. The role would suit a strong software engineer with hands-on experience building cloud-native applications, embedding AI capabilities into production systems, and taking ownership across the full delivery lifecycle. Key responsibilities: * Design, build and maintain AI-enabled applications using enterprise GenAI services* Develop production-grade microservices … applications* Ensure applications meet non-functional requirements around security, scalability, resiliency, performance and cost Essential skills: * Strong software engineering background with experience delivering complex distributed systems* Proven experience building and deploying production-grade applications that embed AI capabilities* Strong Python experience* Experience with LangGraph, Strands and DeepEval* Strong ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions. Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles. Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing (TDD/… Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js), backend development (Java or Python), and building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications. Expertise in data engineering & platforms including SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, and integration of data science and analytics. Experience ...