20 of 20 Remote/Hybrid Distributed Systems Jobs in the Midlands

Principal Software Engineer Backend Technologies, Platform (UK Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Turnitin
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
backend development, particularly in Java and serverless architectures, combined with solid frontend experience. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about building scalable distributed systems, data modeling, and delivering high-performing, reliable software solutions for our award-winning educational platform. As a core contributor to our shared services … team, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing the foundational systems that power both existing and new applications. This role is fully hands-on, requiring active involvement in coding, development, and implementation of technical solutions. You will also be called upon to lead more junior engineers ...

Vice President - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - The Core Engineering - Birmingham Birmingham · United Kingdom · Vice President

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom WHAT WE DO Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs sits at the intersection of software engineering, systems design, and production excellence. In this VP role, you will help engineer highly reliable, observable, and resilient platforms that support critical business services … improve our production system architecture, facilitate fast delivery of new services, and reduce downtime. This role is for software engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed system problems, building tools and platforms that make teams more effective, and championing SRE principles (such as SLOs, error budgets, and blameless post-mortems ...

The Core Engineering - Site Reliability Engineering - Associate - Birmingham

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
also making a significant investment to uplift and rebuild core applications on cloud platforms. Site Reliability Engineering at Goldman Sachs combines software engineering and systems engineering to build, run, and maintain high-performing, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. As a site reliability engineer, you will play a mission … critical role in ensuring that our systems are healthy, observable, automated, and designed to scale. You will collaborate with engineering teams to improve production services, enable faster delivery of new capabilities, reduce downtime, and eliminate repetitive operational work through automation. This role sits within Core Engineering and applies ...

Software Architect - .NET / Warehouse Automation

Hiring Organisation
Computer Futures
Location
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 75,000 Annual
Control System (WCS) used in highly automated logistics environments. This platform sits at the heart of real-time operations, orchestrating material flow across conveyor systems, integrating with PLC controls, robotics (AMR/AGV), and upstream enterprise platforms such as WMS and ERP. This is a highly technical position where … Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, and security Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues, including concurrency, bottlenecks, and integration failures Systems Integration Own and define integration patterns between the WCS platform and external systems including PLCs, WMS, ERP, and robotics platforms Design robust, scalable ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DWP Digital
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
cloud-native architectures, including AWS, containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code approaches using Terraform or CloudFormation. Experience designing complex distributed systems, defining architectural patterns, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, interoperable and fit for long-term organisational needs. Understanding of modern software development lifecycles … analysts and testers, you'll design, build and support secure, reliable digital services used by millions of people. You'll help modernise large-scale systems, transforming legacy platforms into resilient, scalable cloud-based architectures. With the freedom to influence technical decisions, you'll play a key role in shaping ...

Senior Software Engineer

Location
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
best to directly shape the digital future. We are looking for an exceptional Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of complex backend services, database systems, and key technical outcomes. In this role, you won't just be writing code—you’ll be driving architectural decisions, elevating engineering standards across … love to hear from you. What You’ll Be Doing Architecture & Development: Design, build, test, and refactor complex, loosely coupled backend services and database systems in C#/.NET. Platform Modernisation: Support our ongoing architecture evolution, including migrating serverless workloads over to containerised services. Engineering Culture & Mentorship: Lead code ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
Python, we welcome applications from experienced backend developers with Java, C#, Go or similar object-oriented programming backgrounds, with experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems. This permanent Grade 7 role can be based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working … Senior Backend Engineer (Site Reliability) include: * Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. * Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance and user outcomes. * Experience building and supporting applications in containerised environments. * Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/ ...

Principal Software Engineer, Fullstack/Backend Technologies (UK Remote)

Hiring Organisation
Turnitin
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
products.This is a highly influential individual contributor role for an experienced engineer with deep expertise in backend development, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale distributed systems. You will partner with engineering leaders, architects, and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions that support millions of users worldwide.What … EventBridge, as well as Kubernetes (K8s) and related cloud-native technologies.Experience with CI/CD tools, including build, deployment, and test automation.Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, scalability, and software architecture.Experience influencing technical direction and leading complex engineering initiatives.Excellent collaboration and communication skills within distributed teams.Passion ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
leading and developing engineers, strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering expertise, cloud platform experience, infrastructure-as-code capability and a passion for building resilient distributed systems. Based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, this permanent Grade 7 opportunity offers hybrid working, flexible working patterns … Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Ability to write clean, maintainable and well-tested code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including: Flexible hybrid working ...

Senior Java Developer

Location
Stafford, England, United Kingdom
environments. Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and modern backend engineering practices. Experience with cloud-based environments, preferably AWS. Experience with event-driven or distributed systems, ideally using Kafka. Experience working with MongoDB. Experience designing, coding, testing, correcting and documenting complex programmes, services or scripts using agreed standards … tools. Ability to guide others in applying modern software engineering standards, methods and tooling. Experience designing systems with medium levels of technical or business complexity, including reviewing designs and selecting appropriate technologies. Understanding of service resilience, operational stability, robustness, availability and production support.Ability to collaborate with product, architecture, user ...

AI Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
Leicester, Leicestershire, East Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£75,000
Python, C# or similar. Experience developing cloud-based backend applications. Exposure to AI, Machine Learning or Generative AI in commercial projects. Understanding of APIs, distributed systems and scalable architecture. Passion for AI and enthusiasm to continuously learn emerging technologies. What's on offer Salary ...

Senior SRE Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SF Partners
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£100000 - £110000/annum great training and progression opp
reliability and performance - Infrastructure as Code experience - ideally Terraform/Ansible - Kubernetes/EKS experience - CI/CD and automation experience - Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems - Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive root-cause analysis - Strong stakeholder management with the ability to work across engineering, infrastructure ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
process more than 1.5 million bets per hour at peak. Job Description As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will shape the stability of the systems behind every click, query and live change. Our Site Reliability team protects and improves the availability, performance and resilience of the systems that … including Terraform and Ansible. Knowledge of Cloudflare or a comparable edge platform, including DNS, CDN, WAF, DDoS protection and traffic management. Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems across edge, network, platform, application, dependency and origin layers. Experience working in a large-scale, 24/7 enterprise where uptime, performance ...

Junior Java Developer

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
experience to our client’s programme of work and teams. Responsibilities The successful candidate will be responsible for the development of cutting edge Distributed Systems and API’s. You will be working with a range of technical experts as well as with knowledge leaders from the business, giving ...

Lead Data Architect - News Engineering

Hiring Organisation
London Stock Exchange Group
Location
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
modeling and contract definition.Experience designing architectures for low‐latency, high‐throughput systems.Experience with streaming and event‐driven architectures.Familiarity with cloud‐native data platforms and distributed systems.Ability to work independently, lead through influence, and communicate ideas clearly.Bonus PointsKnowledge of news data standards such as NewsML‐G2 or similar structured content ...

Software Engineer

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
high volume of applications. Role Summary: We’re looking for a Mid‐Level Software Engineer to join our delivery team, contributing to critical digital systems that support LCCC’s mission to help the UK achieve Net Zero by 2050. Our digital platform underpins a wide range of applications including … React, Node.js, Terraform, Celery or containerisation. Understanding of database schema design and query optimisation. Familiarity with infrastructure‐as‐code, cloud‐native services or distributed systems. Core Values and Behaviours: Better Together Collaborates effectively within the delivery team and across functions. Contributes to a supportive and constructive engineering culture. Powered ...

Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
techniques. Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and its use within data science. Strong communicationskills with both technical and non-technical audiences. Knowledge of cloud computing, distributed systems, and big data technologies. Additional Information Sourcing, cleaning, and validating diverse datasets from various internal and external sources. Conducting in-depth exploratory ...

AI Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar
Location
Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
engineering background in Python, C# or similar.Experience developing cloud-based backend applications.Exposure to AI, Machine Learning or Generative AI in commercial projects.Understanding of APIs, distributed systems and scalable architecture.Passion for AI and enthusiasm to continuously learn emerging technologies.What's on offerSalary up to 75,000 DOE.Flexible hybrid working ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Get2Talent
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£50,000
data management principles, including data modelling, integration, quality, and governance. Strong commercial experience with Snowflake and Databricks essential. Experience assessing existing data management systems and recommending improvements. Experience with modern data architectures, including cloud-based and distributed systems. Strong proficiency in SQL and Python . Experience with data … technologies such as Apache Airflow and Spark . Experience working with cloud platforms, particularly AWS and Azure . Knowledge of big data technologies and distributed data processing. Understanding of data analytics and visualisation. Awareness of data standards, interoperability, data governance, and data sharing. Experience working with sensitive or security ...

Data Engineer

Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
major enterprise technology programme within the financial services sector. You will be responsible for designing, building and optimising large-scale data pipelines and distributed processing solutions within an AWS environment . The role will also support modern AI/ML and Generative AI initiatives by developing scalable, secure … supporting Generative AI, machine learning and advanced analytics use cases. Implement appropriate data quality, governance, security and monitoring standards. Troubleshoot complex data-processing and distributed-system issues within production environments. Essential Experience 5+ years of commercial Data Engineering experience. Strong hands-on Apache Spark development experience. Strong programming experience ...