1 to 25 of 70 Distributed Systems Jobs in London

Python Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Ncounter LTD
Location
City of 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 ...

Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++ / Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000

Hiring Organisation
IT Graduate Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£55,000 - £77,000 per annum, OTE
Graduate Quant Software Engineer (C++/Java – Trading Systems) | £55,000–£77,000 | Hybrid (London/Remote) Build technology that powers real trading. Join a high-performance engineering team developing low-latency, resilient backend systems used in live trading environments. You’ll work on complex technical challenges from … Quant-Engineering tracks within 12–24 months. What You’ll Do Design, build, and optimise backend components of real-time trading and risk systems Develop clean, efficient, high-performance code in C++ and Java Work closely with traders, quants, and senior engineers to deliver new features Solve complex problems ...

Agentic AI Engineer - 6G Networks & Intelligent Protocols

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£650 - £700 per day + Inside IR35
research team, focused on building the next generation of intelligent, AI-driven network systems. The group operates at the frontier of agentic AI, distributed systems, and future mobile network architectures, with direct influence on global standards. This role is suited to an engineer who enjoys building tools … driven behaviour can be embedded into future mobile networks. The focus is on hands-on engineering within a research environment: turning concepts into working systems, testing them in lab-based deployments, and feeding the results into standards-relevant technical contributions. Key Responsibilities Design and implement agentic AI systems ...

Agentic AI Engineer - 6G Networks & Intelligent Protocols

Hiring Organisation
Method Resourcing
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£650 - £700 per day
research team, focused on building the next generation of intelligent, AI-driven network systems. The group operates at the frontier of agentic AI, distributed systems, and future mobile network architectures, with direct influence on global standards. This role is suited to an engineer who enjoys building tools … driven behaviour can be embedded into future mobile networks. The focus is on hands-on engineering within a research environment: turning concepts into working systems, testing them in lab-based deployments, and feeding the results into standards-relevant technical contributions. Key Responsibilities Design and implement agentic AI systems ...

Senior Software Engineer - Growth

Hiring Organisation
Utility Warehouse Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
scalability and system reliability Raising engineering standards across observability, SLAs and deployment quality Contributing to key launches (including partner rollout and rebrand work) Supporting distributed system improvements and database migration projects Core Responsibilities Work primarily in Go, GraphQL, Docker & Kubernetes Break down complex work and deliver with minimal oversight … work primarily with Go, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes. You’ll own deployments end-to-end within our team’s Kubernetes namespace and contribute to systems where resilience, reliability, observability and uptime really matter. You’ll thrive here if you enjoy autonomy, solving distributed systems problems, and mentoring ...

Data Engineer Manager

Hiring Organisation
Young's Employment Services Ltd
Location
West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£95,000
platform teams in a production environment as a Senior Data Engineer, Tech Lead, Data Engineering Manager etc. Proven success with modern data infrastructure: distributed systems, batch and streaming pipelines Hands-on knowledge of tools such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Databricks, DBT or similar Experience building, defining, and owning … . Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. A strategic mindset, with a practical approach to delivery and prioritisation. Proven success with modern data infrastructure: distributed systems, batch and streaming pipelines. Experience building, defining, and owning data models, data lakes, and data warehouses. Exposure to data science concepts ...

Data Engineer Manager

Hiring Organisation
Youngs Employment Services
Location
W12, Shepherds Bush, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£85000 - £95000/annum circ £85,000 - £95,000 + Bonus
platform teams in a production environment as a Senior Data Engineer, Tech Lead, Data Engineering Manager etc. Proven success with modern data infrastructure: distributed systems, batch and streaming pipelines Hands-on knowledge of tools such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Databricks, DBT or similar Experience building, defining, and owning … . Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. A strategic mindset, with a practical approach to delivery and prioritisation. Proven success with modern data infrastructure: distributed systems, batch and streaming pipelines. Experience building, defining, and owning data models, data lakes, and data warehouses. Exposure to data science concepts ...

Senior Specialist Engineer (SRE)

Hiring Organisation
UK Health Security Agency
Location
Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£41983.00 - £52113.00 a year
ensuring our services run reliably, are scalable, and perform optimally Monitor and manage these aspects while taking responsibility for multiple cloud infrastructure services Observing systems will be key to prioritising the operational service improvements and performance improvements to meet/exceed SLOs (Service Level Objectives) The role will … Write code that is maintainable, clear, and concise. Optimise system performance using strong problem-solving skills to identify bottlenecks with an engineering mindset. Ensure systems can handle current and future workloads through automation and capacity planning. Continuously improve services through observability, and identify ways to improve observability practices. Follow ...

Senior Software Engineer (Kotlin)

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£95,000
solve complex problems that contribute to a greener, more sustainable world? ???? Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies. You'll join one of their core teams, diving deep into production systems … driving long-term architectural decisions that support scale, resilience and product growth. What You'll Do Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems. Analyse production systems to uncover and resolve performance issues. Contribute to backend design using Kotlin (or JVM), supporting a polyglot mindset. Collaborate across ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
83zero Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
next level. Why This Role? This isn't just another leadership position. You'll own the technical vision for a serverless, event-driven, globally distributed platform on AWS. You'll lead a talented, distributed engineering team, shape high-performance APIs, and build systems that scale fast … high-scale, cloud-native PaaS Drive CI/CD, automation, observability, and reliability Design and maintain secure, performant public APIs Build real-time, distributed systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, ECS/EKS) Mentor a cross-functional team and raise engineering standards Prototype and ship features that deliver ...

Head of DevOps

Hiring Organisation
83zero Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90000 - £110000/annum Plus benefits
next level. Why This Role? This isn't just another leadership position. You'll own the technical vision for a serverless, event-driven, globally distributed platform on AWS. You'll lead a talented, distributed engineering team, shape high-performance APIs, and build systems that scale fast … high-scale, cloud-native PaaS Drive CI/CD, automation, observability, and reliability Design and maintain secure, performant public APIs Build real-time, distributed systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, ECS/EKS) Mentor a cross-functional team and raise engineering standards Prototype and ship features that deliver ...

DevOps Lead

Hiring Organisation
83zero Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
join their journey. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll own the technical direction of a serverless, event-driven, globally distributed platform built on AWS. You'll lead a distributed engineering team, shape high-performance APIs, and build systems that scale hard … high-scale, cloud-native PaaS. Champion CI/CD, automation, observability, and reliability. Design and maintain secure, performant public APIs. Build real-time, distributed systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, ECS/EKS). Mentor a cross-functional team and elevate engineering standards. Prototype and ship features that ...

Software Engineer (Kotlin)

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£80,000
solve complex problems that contribute to a greener, more sustainable world? ???? Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies. You'll join one of their core teams, diving deep into production systems … driving long-term architectural decisions that support scale, resilience and product growth. What You'll Do Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems. Analyse production systems to uncover and resolve performance issues. Contribute to backend design using Kotlin (or JVM), supporting a polyglot mindset. Collaborate across ...

Software Engineer Kotlin

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£65,000 - £80,000 per annum
solve complex problems that contribute to a greener, more sustainable world? Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies. You'll join one of their core teams, diving deep into production systems … driving long-term architectural decisions that support scale, resilience and product growth. What You'll Do Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed systems. Analyse production systems to uncover and resolve performance issues. Contribute to backend design using Kotlin (or JVM), supporting a polyglot mindset. Collaborate across ...

Typescript Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £560 per day
looking for a TypeScript Engineer to help shape the services and tooling behind this transformation. The team's mission is to replace legacy systems with clean, event-driven services and provide consistent, reliable data to applications across the business - from customer-facing products to operational systems. The Role … work closely with engineers, analysts, and product specialists to design scalable services, contribute to architectural improvements, and help evolve the company's approach to distributed data and developer experience. Day-to-day responsibilities include: Designing and implementing backend services in TypeScript using Node.js (REST, GraphQL, workers, event-driven consumers ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ByteHire
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
product and engineering strategy. Identify and address technical debt to support long-term platform growth. Platform, Infrastructure & Reliability Build and maintain APIs, microservices, backend systems, and third-party integrations. Ensure platform security, performance, reliability, and scalability. Manage cloud-native workflows using AWS, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines . … Work with distributed systems and messaging technologies (e.g. SQS, RabbitMQ ). Drive strong testing practices, monitoring, observability, and production readiness. Essential Technical Experience: Significant full-stack engineering experience, particularly with PHP (Symfony or Laravel) . Strong experience with JavaScript (Vue.js, React.js, and/or Node.js). Solid database ...

Director - Lead Software Engineer Java, Equities

Hiring Organisation
Huxley
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£120,000 - £180,000 per annum
Equities Technology team within the Front Office. This is a hands-on, independent contributor role where you will design and build high-performance systems that support our equities trading business. You will work closely with traders, quants, and other technologists to deliver innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment. … Responsibilities Lead the design and development of Java-based trading and risk platforms for equities. Deliver low-latency, high-throughput systems for order management and execution. Collaborate with front-office stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Ensure best practices in software architecture, performance optimization ...

Director - Lead Software Engineer (Java, Equities)

Hiring Organisation
Huxley Associates
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£120000 - £180000/annum + Bonus & Benefits Package
Equities Technology team within the Front Office. This is a hands-on, independent contributor role where you will design and build high-performance systems that support our equities trading business. You will work closely with traders, quants, and other technologists to deliver innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment. … Responsibilities Lead the design and development of Java-based trading and risk platforms for equities. Deliver low-latency, high-throughput systems for order management and execution. Collaborate with front-office stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions. Ensure best practices in software architecture, performance optimization ...

Java Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Location
Croydon, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65000 - £75000/annum + Benefits + Bonus
Government clients. Key experience + tasks will include: Java Full Stack Developer with experience developing large-scale micro-services, messaging, web services + distributed systems. In-depth Java 8/11 , Spring Boot, Spring Framework and Micro-services development experience. JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS preferred and REST API, PostgreSQL/… technologies , including hands-on experience of Jenkins, Docker , Ansible, Git. Kubernetes . Experience in large scale integration projects involving messaging, web services and distributed systems, ELK stack, OpenStack platform Agile development methods (Scrum, BDD, TDD, Kanban). Advantageous skills: Docker, JavaScript: ReactJS and NodeJS preferred, AWS API Gateway ...

Global Head of Platforms (DevOps)

Hiring Organisation
XACT PLACEMENTS LIMITED
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
evolution, and lead a world-class Platform Engineering organisation across multiple regions. Youll be the force behind a secure, resilient, and ultra high-throughput distributed platform that supports enterprise customers around the world. If you want impact, autonomy, and the chance to build at true global scale, this … it. ?? What Youll Be Doing Lead, grow, and structure a multi-region Platform Engineering organisation. Architect and scale a distributed scanning & data-processing platform powering thousands of global workloads. Drive DevOps maturity improving deployment speed, change failure rates, and time-to-recovery across all services. Own cloud and infrastructure ...

Senior Backend Engineer (Telco Integration Lead) Golang

Hiring Organisation
Ventula Consulting Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
related field. ? 7+ years of hands-on experience in backend engineering, with a proven track record of building and maintaining high-performance, distributed systems in production. Required Technical Skills ? A minimum of 5 years of production experience with Go (Golang). Experience in other languages (e.g., Python, Node.js ...

Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
Devonshire Hayes Recruitment Specialists Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80000 - £95000/annum
software development life cycle. Create UI proof of concepts using wireframing tools to demonstrate functionality to stakeholders. Provide technical support for production systems as needed. Skills Proficiency in C#, .NET 8, Python, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture. Strong Front End development experience using Nextjs/React/Typescript, with … familiarity in wireframing tools (eg, Figma). Hands-on experience in building distributed systems with messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ or Kafka. Proficient with caching techniques and tools (eg, Redis, Protobuf). Solid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (eg, Azure DevOps, Octopus, Jenkins). Experience ...

Lead Software Engineer (JVM/Kotlin)

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
being hands-on and thrive in fast-growing, product-led environments????? Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies. As the Technical Lead, you will manage a small pod while remaining hands … with day-to-day coding. You'll spearhead the design, architecture and implementation of complex systems and features and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into clear, actionable plans. What You'll Do Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed ...

Lead Software Engineer (JVM/Kotlin)

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
london, south east england, united kingdom
being hands-on and thrive in fast-growing, product-led environments????? Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies. As the Technical Lead, you will manage a small pod while remaining hands … with day-to-day coding. You'll spearhead the design, architecture and implementation of complex systems and features and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into clear, actionable plans. What You'll Do Design, build and evolve platform architecture across distributed ...

Principal Engineer, BCG Expand, London

Hiring Organisation
Boston Consulting Group
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
following: Python, SQL, Java Commercial experience in client-facing projects is a plus, especially within multi-disciplinary teams Deep knowledge of database technologies: Distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, EMR) RDBMS (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Neo4j) Solid understanding of software engineering best ...