101 to 125 of 175 Distributed Systems Jobs in London

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Sphere Digital Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £90,000 per annum
leadership, and the platform provider to deliver the minimum lovable product and inform future platform evolution Person specification 10+ years' experience in software engineering, systems design, platform engineering, or technical architecture Proven experience designing and supporting cloud-native, distributed systems in production Strong hands-on expertise … with meaningful security, compliance, or data governance requirements Preferred experience Design and implementation of scalable, data-intensive platforms Integration of multiple internal and external systems Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, automation, and modern DevOps practices Sphere Digital Recruitment currently have a variety of job opportunities across digital so feel ...

Senior Software Engineer, Python, Django, ReactJS, JavaScript, PHP

Hiring Organisation
Carrington Recruitment Solutions Limited
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75,000
engineers to develop and deliver end-to-end features across the stack Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions for new features and systems Analyse and optimize code for quality, efficiency, and performance, and provide feedback to peers during code reviews Establish ownership of components, features, or systems with expert end-to-end understanding Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables Collaborate effectively with distributed team members across multiple time zones, including offshore development teams Build relationships and foster team cohesion across geographical and cultural boundaries. Experience required: Expert Python/Django developer with full-stack capability ...

API Platform Architect

Hiring Organisation
Hellowork Consultants
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
evolution of our enterprise API Platform. This role is fully hands-on , combining deep expertise in Azure cloud services, Kubernetes, Terraform, API security, and distributed systems with the ability to guide, review, and contribute to .NET Core API development practices . The architect will define and maintain … Helm chart authoring, deployment strategies, custom charts, container registries Ingress controllers, API gateways, service mesh, and traffic policy enforcement Observability (Prometheus, Grafana), log pipelines, distributed tracing High availability, cluster upgrades, autoscaling strategy, performance tuning Lead advanced troubleshooting (pods, networking, DNS, controllers, storage, ingress). 5. Azure API Management (APIM ...

Staff Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Corecom Consulting
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£110000 - £130000/annum
only) Level: Staff/Principal Type: Permanent The Opportunity We're partnering with a well-funded, product-led technology company building advanced backend systems to solve problems that traditional automation has never been able to crack. This is not incremental engineering. You'll be joining a senior, highly capable … complex production platform and is now scaling it to handle extreme concurrency, massive data volumes, and highly sophisticated workflows . If you enjoy designing systems that need to be fast, resilient, and correct at scale , this is the sort of role that doesn't come around often. What ...

Software Engineer - Full-Stack - TypeScript, Node.js

Hiring Organisation
Rebel Recruitment Limited
Location
EC2A, Finsbury Square, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£85000 - £99000/annum Benefits
design → build → deploy → monitor. You join a proper engineering culture: smart people, no ego, bottom-up ideas, product-first thinking. You’ll touch microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native (GCP but if you have AWS and Azure, its equally valuable), event-driven architecture, and everything that makes a modern … product fast, reliable, and scalable. And you’ll help build software that’s literally shaping how homes and energy systems work in years to come. What They’re Looking For Strong experience in TypeScript, Node.js, React. Someone who’s built and maintained systems at scale. A product engineer ...

Full-Stack Engineer - 6-month contract - Immediate Start

Hiring Organisation
The ECA International Group
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Full-Stack Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with leadership, curiosity, and a passion for AI-led development. If you enjoy owning complex systems end-to-end, mentoring engineers, and working in a fast-paced environment where innovation matters, this role is for you. Requirements Technical Leadership & Delivery Guide … APIs . Hands-on experience with middleware and orchestration tools such as Tachyon, Temporal, or similar platforms. Experience with data ingestion, pipeline management, and distributed systems . Databases & Performance Proficiency in PostgreSQL, Snowflake , and NoSQL databases. Experience with vector databases to support AI-driven features. Strong skills ...

AI Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
The Portfolio Group
Location
City of London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
orchestration, vector search, and evaluation workflows across AWS and Databricks. Working closely with senior AI engineers and product teams, you'll ensure AI systems are scalable, observable, secure, and cost-efficient, turning experimental AI into reliable, production-grade capabilities. With further scope of responsibilities detailed below: Own and evolve … Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch). Hands-on experience with Databricks and large-scale data or embedding pipelines. Proven experience building and operating production AI systems , including RAG pipelines, LLM-backed services, and vector search (Weaviate, OpenSearch, Algolia). Proficiency in Python , with experience deploying containerised services on Kubernetes using ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stott and May
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
fast-paced environment Prior experience working at startups and/or on consumer-facing products Experience with Java, AWS and/or distributed systems is a plus Experience with Hibernate or similar ORM technologies is a plus Experience with Spring Framework is a plus ...

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Piper Maddox
Location
Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Strong Python and SQL skills. Hands-on Databricks experience (DLT, Delta Lake; Unity Catalog desirable). Solid understanding of data modelling, data warehousing, and distributed systems. Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable). Familiarity with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines. Exposure ...

Engineering Manager / Lead

Hiring Organisation
Jack & Jill
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
high-performance and cross-team learning. The ideal candidate: Possesses 10+ years of engineering experience with a deep mastery of modern microservices architecture and distributed systems. Has a proven track record of leading multiple teams within cloud-native environments, specifically utilizing AWS, Kubernetes, and Spring Boot. Demonstrates excellent communication ...

Mid-Level Developer

Hiring Organisation
Champion Data
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
ideal for someone who has moved beyond graduate or junior level and is looking to deepen their technical capability while contributing meaningfully to production systems used in elite sport. As a mid-level developer, you will design, build, test, and maintain software solutions under the guidance of senior engineers … Investigate and resolve technical issues within your area of responsibility, escalating more complex problems when needed. Operational Support: Assist with supporting and maintaining production systems, including diagnosing issues and contributing to fixes under guidance. Documentation: Contribute to technical documentation to support maintainability, onboarding, and knowledge sharing. About You Solid ...

Lead Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
design and delivery of next-generation digital solutions. This is an opportunity to shape greenfield projects from the ground up - architecting scalable, data-driven systems that empower venues to deliver seamless guest experiences and drive long-term innovation. What will I be doing? Lead the technical vision and architectural … direction across complex backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Partner closely with engineering leadership to define best practices, coding standards, and long-term technical strategy. Design, develop, and oversee the delivery of robust, production-grade software built using Python, Django, Cloud Firestore, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch. Mentor and guide ...

Principal Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fruition Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
design and delivery of next-generation digital solutions. This is an opportunity to shape greenfield projects from the ground up - architecting scalable, data-driven systems that empower venues to deliver seamless guest experiences and drive long-term innovation. What will I be doing? Lead the technical vision and architectural … direction across complex backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Partner closely with engineering leadership to define best practices, coding standards, and long-term technical strategy. Design, develop, and oversee the delivery of robust, production-grade software built using Python, Django, Cloud Firestore, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch. Mentor and guide ...

Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Durlston Partners
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
rate compensation (made ~40 of its staff millionaires in the last 2 years). In the role, you would be focusing on highly scalable distributed systems, working directly with the Lead Core Developer, the CTO and other various internal stakeholders. The system you would be designing … dealing with 100M+ transactions daily. Requirements: Excellent Python skills with a good understanding of relevant libraries. Significant system design and architecture knowledge for highly distributed systems. Ability to design, build and optimise high-performing Python systems from scratch. Previous experience building/upgrading SQL databases would be highly ...

Back End Developer

Hiring Organisation
Stott and May
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
fast-paced environment Prior experience working at startups and/or on consumer-facing products Experience with Java, AWS and/or distributed systems is a plus Experience with Hibernate or similar ORM technologies is a plus Experience with Spring Framework is a plus ...

AWS Architect

Hiring Organisation
Fairfield Consultancy Services Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £625 per day
modernization frameworks. Migration & Modernization Expertise Proven experience leading end-to-end large-scale migration programs . Strong understanding of application architectures (monolith, microservices, distributed systems). Skilled in designing containerization & orchestration strategies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS). Leadership & Communication Ability to influence senior stakeholders and articulate architecture decisions. Strong ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Hiring Organisation
Charles Simon Associates Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 - £125,000 per annum
planning and load testing efforts to anticipate scaling needs and prevent bottlenecks Contributing to architectural decisions that impact reliability, latency, and fault domains across distributed systems Please send an up-to-date copy of your CV to be considered for the Site Reliability Engineer Site Reliability Engineer ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Motive Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Principle Engineer This is a role for engineers who like big systems, hard problems, and meaningful ownership. You’ll be joining a team operating at the intersection of software, hardware, and AI. The engineering team is small, ambitious, and deeply technical, building the orchestration systems that keep thousands … GPUs running at peak performance across global data centres. About You You’re a pragmatic systems builder who thrives in complexity, enjoys autonomy, and understands what it means to own production at scale. You’ll likely bring: 5+ years’ experience building distributed systems in Go within cloud ...

Backend Engineer (TypeScript/Ruby)

Hiring Organisation
Oliver Bernard
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
time communications across multiple digital touchpoints Collaborate with Product, Data, Marketing, and Engineering teams across multiple locations Tech stack Node.js (TypeScript), Ruby Event-driven systems (Kafka), APIs AWS/GCP, Kubernetes Why it’s exciting Work at scale in a high-traffic, consumer-facing environment Strong engineering culture: automated … testing, reliable CI/CD, observability, distributed systems True end-to-end ownership and impact 📩 Interested? DM your CV and notice period today! 🔥 Software Engineer – Build a Platform Used by Millions ...

Back End Developer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
South Croydon, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£520.00 - £570 per day
high-impact project delivering scalable, reliable backend services. You'll work with modern Java-based technologies in a collaborative, delivery-focused environment, contributing to systems that are critical, secure, and built to scale. This is a contract role offering long-term stability, flexibility through remote working, and the opportunity … work on meaningful, production-grade systems. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain robust backend services using Java Develop and integrate event-driven systems using Kafka Build and consume REST APIs to support internal and external services Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and other engineers Write clean, maintainable ...

Senior Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Oliver Bernard
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
highly capable engineering team working with Node.js, TypeScript and Kafka. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be building and evolving distributed backend services in a fast-paced, product-focused environment. The Role Build, maintain and improve backend services using Node.js and TypeScript Some experience with React … services from development through to production What We’re Looking For Strong commercial experience with Node.js and TypeScript Practical experience working with event-driven systems (Kafka experience preferred) Good understanding of distributed systems, scalability and reliability Experience working in complex backend environments (e-commerce is a plus ...

Founding Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Corecom Consulting
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
architecture, and delivery. The product is already live, customer-facing, and built around applied AI rather than research. The focus is on shipping reliable systems that solve real operational problems at scale. This role suits engineers who thrive in ambiguity, enjoy working close to customers, and are motivated … than hierarchy. What You'll Be Doing Building and shipping core product features using Python and TypeScript Designing and owning backend-leaning full-stack systems Working with LLMs and AI-driven workflows in production Building event-driven systems and third-party integrations Taking ownership from problem discovery through ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Block MB
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Cambridge, Oxford. The role This is a greenfield platform engineering role with complete ownership over the core architecture. You'll design and build the systems powering real-time trading from the ground up, working directly with exceptional founders on one of the most ambitious infrastructure challenges … Architect the full platform stack (Python, TypeScript, Golang) handling trading engine, pricing models, hedging mechanisms and marketplace functionality. Build scalable, low-latency systems for real-time order matching, risk management and market data distribution. Design resilient infrastructure that can handle massive compute trading volumes with 24/7 reliability. ...

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
WorkGenius Group
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
pragmatic, impact-focused way What You Bring Senior level Data Engineering experience Excellent Python and SQL skills Experience in big data environments (e.g., Spark, distributed systems, cloud data platforms) Solid understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT, and pipeline architecture Willingness to work onsite in Edinburgh or London ...

Technical Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£90,000 - £100,000 per annum, Inc benefits
documentation, technical direction and best practices What my client is looking for 10+ years in engineering/architecture roles Strong experience with cloud-native distributed systems Hands-on AWS/Azure/GCP knowledge (IAM, networking, storage, compute) Strong data architecture experience (schemas, metadata, governance) Nice to have ...