Distributed Systems Jobs in London

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Front Office Full Stack Engineer

London Area, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
La Fosse
service design, infrastructure automation (Terraform, Flux), and CI/CD Write unit and integration tests with a strong focus on correctness and resilience Deploy to production daily and support systems in a dynamic trading environment What We’re Looking For Strong engineering fundamentals and commercial experience delivering production systems Proficient in at least two of: Rust, Python, React … or SQL/Postgres Experience building APIs (REST, gRPC), microservices, or distributed systems Interest or background in financial systems, trading, or risk (bonus, not required) Experience with cloud infrastructure (especially AWS, Kubernetes) is a plus Fast learner, pragmatic problem-solver, and clear communicator Passion for testable, maintainable, and well-structured code Mindset You take pride in what … working directly with end users to improve their tools You thrive in a fast-paced, front-office setting where priorities evolve You balance autonomy with teamwork and enjoy owning systems end-to-end This is a high-impact, high-trust role for engineers who care about precision, velocity, and collaboration. If you love solving tough problems with clean code More ❯
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Front Office Full Stack Engineer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
La Fosse
service design, infrastructure automation (Terraform, Flux), and CI/CD Write unit and integration tests with a strong focus on correctness and resilience Deploy to production daily and support systems in a dynamic trading environment What We’re Looking For Strong engineering fundamentals and commercial experience delivering production systems Proficient in at least two of: Rust, Python, React … or SQL/Postgres Experience building APIs (REST, gRPC), microservices, or distributed systems Interest or background in financial systems, trading, or risk (bonus, not required) Experience with cloud infrastructure (especially AWS, Kubernetes) is a plus Fast learner, pragmatic problem-solver, and clear communicator Passion for testable, maintainable, and well-structured code Mindset You take pride in what … working directly with end users to improve their tools You thrive in a fast-paced, front-office setting where priorities evolve You balance autonomy with teamwork and enjoy owning systems end-to-end This is a high-impact, high-trust role for engineers who care about precision, velocity, and collaboration. If you love solving tough problems with clean code More ❯
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Staff Software Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
eBay Inc
curious. Join us to make an impact on one of the world's largest e-commerce websites. The team is a backend team building internal and external APIs, enterprise distributed systems, services. Our teams operate a DevOps philosophy. You, together with the rest of your team, support in production what you build. We value delivery to production, getting … the domain Requirements To be considered for this role, you must have 10+years of experience in software development, 5+years of experience with software design and architecture, running large scale distributed systems in production environments. You must have significant commercial experience and a passion for working in: Java Spring Boot Developing and using enterprise APIs Various testing methodologies System … Agile: Test-Driven Development, collaboration and continuous delivery are your preferred engineering practices? We take the best bits of Lean, Scrum and Kanban too. Architecture: In a large scale distributed web-application, you choose the right tool for the job at hand. You know when to break something out into a new component and the best way to wire More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Engineering Manager

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Holland & Barrett International Limited
Leadership Define and evolve the team's technical platform, ensuring alignment with H&B's technology strategy Lead architectural decisions, implementation, and code reviews with a focus on modern, distributed systems Advocate for continuous improvement in tools, practices, and delivery processes Team & People Leadership Manage, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of accountability and … integrated outcomes Key requirements: 3+ years' experience managing engineering teams of 8 or more A strong background in software development using JavaScript, Java or Kotlin Experience building microservices and distributed systems using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native patterns Deep knowledge of Agile delivery, DevOps practices, and automated testing pipelines Excellent problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, analytical mindset More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: Competitive salary
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Lead Staff Software Engineer

London, United Kingdom
The Trade Desk, Inc
making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently. Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad range of technologies. Our backend developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges in everything we do. … At the Privacy Engineering and Data Governance team, as part of the Data Platform org., we focus on the sensitive part of data - we make sure our systems know what data is sensitive, handle it appropriately, deliver it to the right hands only, and track its life and usage. All of that on a scale of 15 million QPS … requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role: • You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents. • You can communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences. • You have a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals. More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Lead Staff Software Engineer (London)

Wandsworth, Greater London, UK
The Trade Desk, Inc
making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently. Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad range of technologies. Our backend developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges in everything we do. … At the Privacy Engineering and Data Governance team, as part of the Data Platform org., we focus on the sensitive part of data - we make sure our systems know what data is sensitive, handle it appropriately, deliver it to the right hands only, and track its life and usage. All of that on a scale of 15 million QPS … requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role: • You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents. • You can communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences. • You have a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals. More ❯
Employment Type: Full-time
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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Lloyds Banking Group
signed token for Channels to use downstream, allowing management of their access. As a Lead SRE, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of distributed systems. This includes driving cloud adoption, automating workflows, and embedding SRE principles into the software development lifecycle. You'll lead incident management, implement monitoring and alerting solutions, and mentor … you'll focus on security, compliance, and continuous improvement to deliver resilient and high-performing systems. What you'll do The team focuses on Site Reliability, Platform, DevOps, and Systems engineering, to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems on public cloud. This is a hybrid role, first leading a team, mentoring, coaching, and developing More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Software Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Ripple
a high degree of accountability and 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 to optimise away manual inefficiencies. … refining the signal processing and 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: Research, design, and backtest systematic trading strategies and … optimize execution algorithms (e.g., VWAP, TWAP, Participation) and Smart Order Routing (SOR) logic to minimize market impact. Contribute to the evolution of trading infrastructure, including Execution and Order Management Systems (EMS/OMS), and maintain high-performance codebases. Monitor real-time system performance, execution quality, P&L, and risk, proactively addressing issues and making strategy adjustments. Perform post-trade More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Software Engineer (London)

London, UK
Ripple
a high degree of accountability and 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 to optimise away manual inefficiencies. … refining the signal processing and 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: Research, design, and backtest systematic trading strategies and … optimize execution algorithms (e.g., VWAP, TWAP, Participation) and Smart Order Routing (SOR) logic to minimize market impact. Contribute to the evolution of trading infrastructure, including Execution and Order Management Systems (EMS/OMS), and maintain high-performance codebases. Monitor real-time system performance, execution quality, P&L, and risk, proactively addressing issues and making strategy adjustments. Perform post-trade More ❯
Employment Type: Full-time
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Lead C++ Software Engineer - VP (London)

London, UK
Morgan Stanley
support, automating testing and deployment and modernization. Team Trade Routing Applications(TRA) is a department within the Institutional Securities Technology division of Morgan Stanley. Our platforms connect trade execution systems to trade processing systems that perform functions such as flow monitoring, trade reporting, risk management, audit trail capture, allocations and trade booking for the Institutional Equities Division business. … We engineer global systems that support high throughput rates, low latency and are highly resilient. On an average day we handle over a billion transactions a day globally. We need to maintain an extremely high uptime, reacting to production issues promptly and effectively to ensure we provide uninterrupted, first-class service to our clients. All listed equity and derivatives … C++ Knowledge of networking, data structure, databases Experience with scripting (Perl, shell, Python etc.) Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Experience with Agile/DevOps Experience with large-scale distributed systems is preferred Experience leading a small team of 2-5 System integration Ability to analyse regulatory documentation and partner with risk and compliance teams to translate regulatory More ❯
Employment Type: Full-time
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Software Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Techwaka
supportive atmosphere, where people care greatly about their mission to help people safely benefit from AI. You'll work on capabilities across SaaS Webapps, to integrations that protect customer systems, to internal tooling that powers our AI threat intelligence. We use a variety of tooling across the tech stack, including Python, TypeScript, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Azure. In this … help design solutions. Evolving our architecture to supportchanging commercial and customer needs. Growing other engineers; sharing your experience, providing feedback and mentoring. Participating in on-callrota to support the systems you are building. We are looking forpeople who are: Kind-sharing our values. Curious-always looking for ways to improve our tech and product for customers. Mission-driven-care … Collaborative-comfortable working together to build quality fast (e.g. pair programming). Experienced building SaaS products that delight customers, from conception to production. Experienced with building and operating production distributed systems. Experienced with cloud native, containers, Kubernetes. Confident working with data pipelines and a variety of databases. You'llstand out if you: Haveexperience building cyber security products. Haveexperience working More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Software Engineer (London)

London, UK
Ripple
a high degree of accountability and 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 to optimise away manual inefficiencies. … refining the signal processing and 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 Conduct quantitative research to identify, test, and refine … statistical robustness and real-world applicability. Develop and optimize execution algorithms (VWAP, TWAP, Participation, SOR) to enhance trading performance and minimize market impact. Monitor and maintain real-time trading systems, proactively addressing issues in execution, risk, and P&L. Perform post-trade and transaction cost analysis (TCA) to continuously improve execution quality and strategy effectiveness. Work across the full More ❯
Employment Type: Full-time
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Director of Rates and Credit Reliability Engineering (London)

London, UK
Hybrid / WFH Options
Deutsche Bank
and accountable for day-to-day production stability in the Rates & Credit business. You will be responsible for the resilience, scalability, and performance of mission-critical trading and risk systems—particularly within the Rates & Credit business—while also influencing SRE practices across FX, Repo, Emerging Markets, Listed Derivatives and other Core Platforms. You will work closely with senior business … engineering excellence Your Skills And Experience Proven experience leading SRE or Production Engineering functions in complex, high-availability environments—ideally within capital markets Advanced proficiency in Linux/Unix systems, SQL, and programming languages such as C++, Java or Python. Strong understanding of distributed systems and low-latency architectures Hands-on experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus More ❯
Employment Type: Full-time
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Senior Manager, Data Engineering

London, United Kingdom
Optimizely
Experience with building Data pipelines and applications to stream and process datasets Robust understanding of DevOps principles is required Experience managing cloud infrastructure would be beneficial Sound knowledge of distributed systems and Data architecture (lambda)- design and implement batch and stream Data processing pipelines, knows how to optimize the distribution, partitioning, and MPP of high-level Data structures … Knowledge of Engineering and Operational Excellence using standard methodologies Expertise in designing systems and workflows for handling Big Data volumes Knowledge of Data management fundamentals and Data storage principles Strong problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize conflicting requirements Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to succinctly summarize key findings. Education Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Engineering Manager - Basket & Checkout

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Holland & Barrett International Limited
customer-focused roadmaps. Lead sprint planning, manage team capacity, and balance priorities across features, tech debt, and operational improvements. Ensure robust CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and monitoring systems are in place to support rapid, high-quality releases. Collaboration & Communication Be the go-to technical leader for your area, clearly communicating progress, plans, and risks to stakeholders. Work … experience, managing teams of 8+ engineers. A strong development background in JavaScript, Java or Kotlin (React or React Native experience is a bonus!). Proven success building and scaling distributed systems using modern cloud-native technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, microservices). A deep understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, and DevOps culture. Strong architectural and problem-solving More ❯
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: Competitive salary
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Principal Software Engineering Architect (London)

London, UK
team.blue Global
leadership role Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field Strong expertise in designing scalable and secure software architectures. Deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and API design. Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). Strong problem-solving skills with a strategic and analytical mindset. Excellent communication More ❯
Employment Type: Full-time
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Senior software engineer (Back-end)

London, United Kingdom
Seccl Technology Limited
high-quality, standards-compliant workflow APIs, with a focus on testing, observability, and performance. Have worked with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP). Have worked with distributed systems and are comfortable debugging through tracing and observability. Willing to be on-call for your services. Nice to have Have experience with Node.js , specifically Typescript . Have More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Cloud Engineer

London Area, United Kingdom
HCLTech
Go routines and channels (Concurrency) Proper handling and management of errors in Go hands on expereince of Packages & Moduldes plus Go Testing Packages Understanding of Restful APIs, Microservices and distributed system AWS Expereince using EC2, Lamda, S3 EBS, RDS/Dyanamo DB and IAM/KMS Understanding GitLab CI/CD , Git Merging, Rebasing & Conflit Reolution Expereince in Containerization More ❯
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Cloud Engineer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
HCLTech
Go routines and channels (Concurrency) Proper handling and management of errors in Go hands on expereince of Packages & Moduldes plus Go Testing Packages Understanding of Restful APIs, Microservices and distributed system AWS Expereince using EC2, Lamda, S3 EBS, RDS/Dyanamo DB and IAM/KMS Understanding GitLab CI/CD , Git Merging, Rebasing & Conflit Reolution Expereince in Containerization More ❯
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Search - Search Inference - Senior MLOps Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Elasticsearch B.V
reranking models that are available across the Elasticsearch user base. As a team, we are a collaborative, cross-functional group with backgrounds in information retrieval, natural language processing, and distributed systems. We work with Go microservices, Python, Ray Serve, Kubernetes/KubeRay, and work on AWS, GCP & Azure. We provide thought leadership across a variety of mediums including open … relevant in your application: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, blog posts and writing samples, links to personal projects, etc. Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Full Stack Java Developer (London)

London, UK
Chicago Organizing
and deployment. Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and research projects. Key Skills & Experience: Strong proficiency in Java and system design principles. Experience with designing and implementing scalable and distributed systems. Exposure to front-end technologies (React, Angular, or similar) is beneficial. Experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling. Familiarity with cloud services (AWS preferred) and DevOps practices. More ❯
Employment Type: Full-time
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Senior Full Stack Java Developer

London, United Kingdom
Rec Solutions
and deployment. Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and research projects. Key Skills & Experience: Strong proficiency in Java and system design principles. Experience with designing and implementing scalable and distributed systems. Exposure to front-end technologies (React, Angular, or similar) is beneficial. Experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling. Familiarity with cloud services (AWS preferred) and DevOps practices. More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Technical Product Manager

London Area, United Kingdom
SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™
for core services, including the Amazon ECS container orchestration, to ensure infrastructure is scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient. Microservices Architecture: You will guide the ongoing architectural transition to a distributed system of microservices . This involves defining the strategy for service-to-service communication, API gateways , and data management . AI & Machine Learning Platform: AI is a critical component More ❯
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Senior Technical Product Manager

City of London, London, United Kingdom
SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™
for core services, including the Amazon ECS container orchestration, to ensure infrastructure is scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient. Microservices Architecture: You will guide the ongoing architectural transition to a distributed system of microservices . This involves defining the strategy for service-to-service communication, API gateways , and data management . AI & Machine Learning Platform: AI is a critical component More ❯
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
a hands-on, senior-level role focused on building and scaling large-scale monitoring and logging platforms that ensure service reliability, performance, and visibility. If you're passionate about distributed systems, high-throughput data pipelines, and enabling engineering teams with top-tier observability tooling-this is the role for you. What You'll Be Doing Designing and operating … . Participating in on-call rotations to ensure platform uptime and responsiveness. What We're Looking For 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps roles , managing large-scale systems Strong technical knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) environments Proven experience with observability tools such as: ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite Kafka, Thanos, Cortex Infrastructure-as … Code skills (Terraform, Ansible) Scripting/programming skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Bash, or Scala Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in complex distributed systems A proactive, collaborative approach with a customer-focused mindset This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £50 - £62/hour
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Distributed Systems
London
10th Percentile
£60,000
25th Percentile
£85,000
Median
£110,000
75th Percentile
£115,000
90th Percentile
£147,500