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Solutions Engineer

Hiring Organisation
HireCapital
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
About Our Client We're representing a company on a mission to redefine how modern distributed systems are tested and released. Their platform is trusted by engineering teams who demand rock-solid reliability, scalable performance, and deep technical visibility — and it exists because developers deserve something better than … prospects on platform adoption and testing best practices Participate in new customer onboarding and early-stage success Contribute thought leadership on testing complex distributed systems Who You Are Highly technical — and more importantly, technically curious Easily bored; you need new problems to stay engaged A natural communicator ...

Head of AI & Cloud

Hiring Organisation
Cititec
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
across trading, data, and risk environments Drive large scale cloud transformation across GCP, Azure, AWS, or hybrid ecosystems Establish engineering and architecture standards across distributed systems, data platforms, and platform reliability Embed AI into real trading workflows including automation, optimisation, and decision intelligence and be at the cutting … What You Bring Proven leadership experience operating at senior or executive level within complex technology and trading organisations Deep technical credibility across cloud engineering, distributed systems, and modern data platforms Strong understanding of applied AI and machine learning in production environments Experience within multi-strat trading, hedge funds ...

Technical Architect Principal (UK)

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
designing major solution components, defining reference architectures, and guiding development teams through POCs to production-scale implementations. The role has a strong open-source, distributed systems, and data architecture focus, with frequent CIO-level technical interactions. Your Responsibilities Architecture & Blueprint Design Define end-to-end architecture blueprints covering … Your Profile Essential Skills/Knowledge/Experience Core Experience 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or principal technical roles. Strong background in distributed systems and data platforms. Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and time-series data platforms. Technical Expertise Architecture of high-volume telemetry ...

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 ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
In Product
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
days in office) The Opportunity We’re partnered with a scaling, venture-backed SaaS business delivering a mobile-first platform used by large distributed workforces across global enterprise organisations. This is not greenfield development and it’s not legacy maintenance. The business is at ~£20m ARR and growing … Product The platform is a mobile-first employee experience solution built primarily for frontline and deskless workers. It enables organisations to communicate with distributed teams, share operational information, digitise workflows, and integrate workplace tools into a single platform used by large global enterprises. Customers include large brands operating ...

Founding DevOps Engineer - Up to £110k

Hiring Organisation
Few&Far
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
pipelines and release processes Design secure-by-default infrastructure Shape the company’s incident response culture and processes Introduce tooling to monitor AI-native systems and non-deterministic agents You’ll be defining what “good” reliability looks like from day one. ⚙️ Tech Snapshot GCP | Terraform | Cloud Run | Kubernetes (planned … Logging 👀 What They’re Looking For 4+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering Strong Terraform & Infrastructure-as-Code experience Experience running production distributed systems Built monitoring, alerting and observability in real environments Comfortable running incident response and post-mortems Strong understanding of security fundamentals Experience building ...

Python Developer (high-throughput/low-latency)

Hiring Organisation
Ascendion
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
expertise and hands-on experience building or supporting enterprise-grade platforms. This role is ideal for someone who has worked on complex, high-performance systems such as trading platforms, financial systems, or other large-scale enterprise applications. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python … Build and enhance REST APIs and microservices Work on high-throughput, low-latency systems Deploy and manage applications on AWS cloud infrastructure Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps and architecture Optimize performance, scalability, and system reliability Work with SQL/NoSQL databases and large datasets Required Skills & Experience ...

Camunda Developer

Hiring Organisation
Hydrogen Group
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
Strong software engineering background in Java Experience building applications/services with Spring Boot Experience integrating workflow platforms with REST APIs, microservices and distributed systems Strong understanding of workflow orchestration, business process automation and process state management Experience working in microservices-based architectures Experience with containerised environments such ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sphere Digital Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 - £551 per day
standards, influencing architectural improvements, managing complex incidents, and building automation to improve deployment safety and operational efficiency. Your work will directly support high-traffic systems used by a global audience. Key Responsibilities Reliability & Risk Engineering My client is looking for someone who can: Identify systemic reliability risks and drive … client is looking for candidates with: A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD systems with deployment safety practices Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams 7+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering ...

Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Ascendion
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Contract
expertise and hands-on experience building or supporting enterprise-grade platforms. This role is ideal for someone who has worked on complex, high-performance systems such as trading platforms , financial systems, or other large-scale enterprise applications. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python … Build and enhance REST APIs and microservices Work on high-throughput, low-latency systems Deploy and manage applications on AWS cloud infrastructure Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps and architecture Optimize performance, scalability, and system reliability Work with SQL/NoSQL databases and large datasets Required Skills & Experience ...

Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Ascendion
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
expertise and hands-on experience building or supporting enterprise-grade platforms. This role is ideal for someone who has worked on complex, high-performance systems such as trading platforms , financial systems, or other large-scale enterprise applications. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Python … Build and enhance REST APIs and microservices Work on high-throughput, low-latency systems Deploy and manage applications on AWS cloud infrastructure Collaborate with cross-functional teams including DevOps and architecture Optimize performance, scalability, and system reliability Work with SQL/NoSQL databases and large datasets Required Skills & Experience ...

DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer, Junior/Mid/Senior (m/f/*)

Hiring Organisation
Quaisr
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or HashiCorp Nomad. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. Nice to have: Experience managing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures. Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog. Experience with security best practices ...

AI Engineer – Production LLM Systems

Hiring Organisation
Redimeer
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
passionate about building real, production‐grade AI systems—not just prototypes or research models? We’re partnering with a fast‐growing, well‐funded AI‐native consultancy that delivers enterprise‐scale AI solutions to major organisations across Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, Retail, and Manufacturing. Working alongside global partners such … Anthropic, Databricks, AWS, OpenAI, and Microsoft, the team focuses on designing and deploying advanced AI systems that solve complex real‐world problems with speed, clarity, and measurable impact. As part of their expansion, we are looking for experienced AI Engineers who can build robust, scalable applications powered by large ...

Site Reliability Engineer(Openshift & Virtualization)

Hiring Organisation
Synechron
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
container platforms. This role focuses on automation, secure service design, and cross‐team collaboration across Applications, Hardware, and Network domains. You will build proactive systems that prevent outages, enforce SRE best practices, and participate in an on‐call rotation. Primary Responsibilities Manage and optimize OpenShift and container/virtualization … call rotation to support critical production environments. Required Skills Hands‐on experience with OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes administration . Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure scenarios; experience managing RedHat, Windows, and ESXi workloads. Deep knowledge of Linux systems and networking . Experience with monitoring/observability ...

Python Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Arcus Search
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
join their Observability Engineering team , building the telemetry and monitoring infrastructure that underpins hundreds of services across the organisation. The Role • Build and maintain systems that handle cloud-scale volumes of telemetry data • Extend and maintain OpenTelemetry collectors, SDKs and exporters • Design and improve telemetry pipelines and observability backends … looking for • Strong Python backend engineering experience • Experience working in Kubernetes/cloud-native environments • Interest or experience in observability, monitoring or telemetry systems • Comfortable building distributed systems and internal developer tooling • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering teams Package ...

Senior C++ Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Spencer Rose Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 95,000 Annual
C++ Engineer Location: x3 days onsite Salary: £95,000 + bonus Overview Senior C++ Engineer needed to work on high-performance trading and analytics systems in a low-latency environment. This is a hands-on role focused on building, optimising and stabilising mission-critical platforms used across the business. … work close to production systems, taking ownership of complex technical issues including crash investigation, deep debugging and performance optimisation. Key Responsibilities Design and build low-latency C++ applications with a strong focus on performance and resilience Own production issues including crash analysis, memory corruption and runtime failures Perform deep ...

Solutions Architect

Hiring Organisation
X4 Technology
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
deliver scalable, secure AI solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the forefront of LLMs, enterprise AI architecture, and cloud-native systems, helping organisations deploy real-world GenAI applications at scale. The Role As a Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering … advanced Generative AI solutions for enterprise customers. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to architect robust systems while advising clients on the best ways to deploy AI within complex environments. You’ll also act as a technical leader across client engagements, shaping solution design, ensuring security ...

Lead Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Mesh-AI
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
learn from & will want to learn from you. Responsibilities You will be responsible for the technical implementation and delivery of modern data systems as well as AI enabled applications Solve end to end data problems/opportunities at scale Contributing to solution architecture & design Working with our customers … solutions Contribute to internal initiatives such as; blogs, technical forums Requirements (These are || not &&) Good grasp of modern data engineering (distributed systems, data streaming, event-based architectures etc) and how to apply them Experience with software engineering and DevOps best practices as well as the complete SDLC applied ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hlx Life Sciences
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team and help build scalable software systems that support cutting-edge research in biotechnology and life sciences. You will play a key role in designing and developing platforms that enable scientists, data engineers, and bioinformaticians to analyze complex biological … backend engineering, cloud infrastructure and data engineering, with an interest in working alongside scientists and research teams. Key Responsibilities Design and develop scalable backend systems and APIs for scientific and clinical data platforms Build and maintain data pipelines for large biological and research datasets Collaborate with scientists, bioinformaticians ...

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. ...

Solace Administrator

Hiring Organisation
BGC Group
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Qualifications: 3+ years of experience administering Solace PubSub+ messaging systems. Strong background in production support , preferably in a 24x7 enterprise environment. Experience working with distributed systems over WAN , with an understanding of networking, latency, and failover strategies. Solid experience with Prometheus and Grafana for system monitoring and alerting. … Proficiency in troubleshooting message delivery, persistence, and topic routing. Experience with capacity management , performance tuning, and system scaling. Familiarity with Linux/Unix systems and scripting (Bash, Python, etc.). Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Nice to Have: Experience ...

Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML Product Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Entrust
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Biometrics platform, ensuring alignment with emerging industry standards including NIST FRTE and FIDO Alliance requirements Design and optimize Python-based AI/ML backend systems for biometric processing, with integration points across Ruby and Elixir microservices Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement privacy-compliant solutions adhering to BIPA … SDLC, cryptographic implementation, and code obfuscation techniques Lead the evaluation and integration of emerging technologies such as quantum-resistant cryptography and zero-knowledge proof systems Drive continuous improvement of development processes, deployment pipelines, and system reliability Represent Entrust's technical capabilities in industry forums and contribute to open-source ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Space Executive
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
features end-to-end, from idea to production with a strong feedback loop from real users • Improving system performance, reliability, and observability across a distributed environment • Contributing to a modern DevOps culture with CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure as code Tech stack: React, Node.js (Nest.js), Python/… FastAPI, AWS (ECS), PostgreSQL, Kafka, Terraform, GitHub CI/CD Testing: Jest, Cypress, Pact, Pytest What they’re looking for: • Strong experience building distributed systems/microservices architectures • Deep hands-on expertise with Node.js and React • Solid understanding of API design, event-driven systems, and contract testing ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Xapien
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
system reliability Contribute to technical discussions and design decisions within your team Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge with the team Build new systems and features that directly impact our customers What We're Looking For Essential 5+ years of professional software engineering experience Strong proficiency in Go, with … idiomatic patterns Experience building RESTful or gRPC APIs Solid understanding of databases, with MongoDB experience highly valued Experience with micro-services architecture and distributed systems Familiarity with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) Strong testing practices and commitment to code quality Excellent communication and collaboration skills Self-driven with ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Arrive
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
relational database performance optimisation Experience working with Linux, Docker, and Git Proven experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams Experience designing scalable, high-performance systems Experience working with legacy or monolithic systems and modernising them Strong understanding of API design and distributed systems Knowledge of modern ...