1 to 25 of 42 Distributed Systems Jobs in the North West

Lead Developer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
mentoring developers and helping define engineering standards across multiple cloud-native products. If you're passionate about modern software engineering and enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, this is the type of role that doesn't come around often. The Opportunity You'll work within … available, cloud-native SaaS applications used at significant scale. Working alongside Architects, Product Managers, Platform Engineers and Quality Engineers, you'll help deliver resilient distributed systems built around microservices, event-driven architecture and modern engineering practices. This is not a people-management role disguised as leadership. ...

Senior Software Engineer - Hotel Acquisition

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
build the future of travel with us? About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer in Hotels Acquisition, you will build scalable backend systems and platforms that ingest, process and distribute hotel inventory across On the Beach. We have AWS‐hosted high‐performance databases that contain billions of items. … There are always interesting problems to solve! You will work on systems that support supplier connectivity, inventory acquisition, pricing and availability freshness, cache optimisation and search distribution. This is a backend and platform focused role with strong emphasis on distributed systems, cloud native technologies, operational excellence ...

Principal Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
teams to ensure architectural designs are successfully delivered Producing high-quality solution designs, technical documentation and architecture roadmaps Driving cloud-first architecture using modern distributed systems Leading architectural discussions around scalability, resilience, security and performance Supporting engineering teams through technical decision making rather than simply producing documentation Reviewing … existing systems and identifying opportunities for modernisation Collaborating with Product teams to balance commercial requirements with technical excellence Acting as a trusted technical advisor across multiple delivery teams What we're looking for You'll ideally have experience in most of the following: Previous experience as a Solution Architect ...

Software Engineer - Java/Python

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£65,000
software engineering principles. Working within agile engineering teams, you'll contribute to solution design, architecture, automation and continuous improvement while helping deliver reliable, scalable systems for enterprise clients. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain scalable backend applications and services Build secure, high-performing solutions using modern engineering practices Develop … APIs, integrations and distributed systems Contribute to technical design, architecture and engineering best practices Implement automated testing strategies, including unit, integration and contract testing Deploy and support applications using cloud platforms, containers and CI/CD pipelines Monitor, troubleshoot and improve application performance and reliability Collaborate with engineers ...

Lead Software Engineer (Java)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Define and evolve the technical strategy for backend engineering across projects and teams. Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure and resilient distributed systems using Java and the Spring ecosystem. Provide architectural leadership across multiple client engagements, ensuring consistency, maintainability and long‐term scalability. … Boot and the wider Spring ecosystem Spring Security, Spring Data JPA and Spring Cloud Designing and delivering RESTful APIs Microservices, event‐driven architecture and distributed systems Relational and NoSQL databases Messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ Docker and containerisation Kubernetes and cloud‐native deployments Cloud platforms including ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£490 - £500/day
architectures for enterprise workflow orchestration * Drive modern backend engineering standards, including CI/CD, deployment automation, and operational best practices * Architect durable, fault-tolerant distributed systems with high observability * Develop integration strategies across enterprise APIs, event streams, and downstream systems * Build reusable frameworks, prototypes, and production solutions … software initiatives using LLM frameworks and AWS AI services What you'll bring: * Proven experience with Camunda and/or Temporal.io in backend and distributed systems * Strong Python skills and experience designing production-grade APIs * Expertise in building resilient, fault-tolerant enterprise applications * Knowledge of workflow orchestration, retries ...

Software Developer | Capital Markets

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Nantwich, England, United Kingdom
help build new solutions in support of strategic business initiatives, and initiatives and mature our existing software and efficiently migrate and re-platform legacy systems to the cloud, using cloud native design patterns. Working closely with the enterprise architecture stream and platform engineering team to ensure alignment to organisational … assist the wider scrum team in taking accountability for theirs Work with platform engineering to automate build and deploy of existing and new systems Support the strategic goals of Capital Markets development; greenfield initiatives, replatforming and consolidating legacy systems, and adopting an automation-first approach to delivery ...

Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack - AI

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
agent architectures, and building/consuming Model Context Protocol (MCP) services. System Observability & Quality: Strong experience with application observability, logging, and performance monitoring across distributed backend systems and frontend applications. Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams … financial planning, business analytics, or related enterprise SaaS environments. Community Contributions: Contributions to open‐source agent frameworks, MCP servers, or published research in distributed systems or Generative AI. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering ...

Engineering Manager (Golang)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
modern cloud-native environment. Youll play a key role in shaping architecture, driving best practices, and supporting the delivery of scalable, secure backend systems used by customers at scale. The Role As Engineering Manager, youll lead a team of Golang Software Engineers working across cloud-native microservices and distributed … modern tools, including AI-assisted development. About You Youll be an experienced engineering leader with a strong technical background in backend or distributed systems development, ideally using Golang. Youll bring: Strong commercial experience with Golang or similar backend technologies. Previous experience in a leadership, team lead or engineering ...

Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £500.0 per day + Inside IR35
regulatory requirements. Act as the senior technical escalation point for engineering challenges, controls-related issues, and critical production incidents. Support complex integrations across enterprise systems, risk platforms, controls frameworks, and external applications. Design and guide implementation of scalable integration solutions across APIs, middleware, event-driven platforms, and external systems. … backend software engineering and enterprise integration. Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, middleware solutions, and event-driven architectures. Experience integrating enterprise platforms, risk systems, controls frameworks, and business-critical applications. Strong understanding of regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements within banking or financial services environments. Experience supporting applications impacted ...

Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £500.0 per day + Inside IR35
with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices. Experience with Python and/or other modern backend programming languages. Strong understanding of distributed systems, application resiliency, and operational support. Experience conducting architecture reviews, technical governance, and engineering quality assurance. Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Strong … Financial Services, or large-scale enterprise transformation programmes. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and site reliability practices. Experience supporting geographically distributed engineering teams. Exposure to AI-enabled engineering tools, automation frameworks, or developer productivity tooling. What you need to do now If you're interested ...

Remote PHP Laravel Developer

Hiring Organisation
Tilt Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£65,000
shape both the technical direction and engineering culture as the team grows. Working within a cloud-native, microservices-based architecture, you'll build scalable systems, integrate with third-party services and contribute to products that handle complex business workflows and recurring customer services. This is far more than … What We're Looking For Essential Around 46 years' commercial PHP development experience Strong Laravel experience beyond simple CRUD applications Experience building complex business systems and workflows React (TypeScript) and/or Vue.js experience Strong SQL skills with the ability to write and optimise complex queries Experience designing, building ...

Principle Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DCS Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90000 - £100000/annum
technical problem-solving, system design, and raising engineering standards across teams. What You'll Be Doing Owning Architecture & Technical Direction Design and build scalable, distributed systems using .NET (C#) Define and evolve system architecture across AWS cloud environments Lead on complex technical challenges and system design decisions Ensure … influence the wider engineering team through knowledge sharing and technical mentorship Hands-On Delivery & Innovation Contribute directly to coding, design, and delivery of key systems Work across the full lifecycle - from design through to deployment and optimisation Drive improvement across CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native practices Collaborate ...

Senior Principal Software Engineer (Java)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Deliver thought leadership and coding excellence across Java/Kotlin, ensuring seamless integration between backend microservices and UI components (including resolving complex CORS and distributed edge proxy requirements). Mentor and elevate engineers across global teams through design reviews, pair programming, and hands‐on leadership to foster a resilient … workflows—to accelerate platform engineering and developer velocity. Deep expertise in backend JVM languages (Java and/or Kotlin) with a strong understanding of distributed systems internals. Proven track record of delivering API‐first infrastructures, API Gateways (e.g., Traefik), and edge routing solutions that guarantee enterprise reliability under ...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Python

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Part Time, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
skills for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer include: Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and user impact. Experience of building applications hosted on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure ...

Full-Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
principles and strategic pillars. To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: Proven leadership of software engineering teams building distributed systems and microservices in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban). Deep Java experience (Spring), architectural patterns for scalable, observable, testable systems; strong API design. ...

QA Automation Lead

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Chester, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
hands-on experience with LoadRunner, JMeter or similar enterprise performance testing tools. Experience creating and maintaining large-scale automated regression test packs. Experience testing distributed systems and high-volume transaction processing platforms. Strong understanding of APIs, microservices and event-driven architectures. Experience managing test environments and supporting release ...

Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Cloud at Roku – Manchester, United Kingdom

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
cloud infrastructure. Develop and optimize a highly efficient auto-scaling platform utilizing Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration. Ensure reliability and uptime of backend systems through comprehensive monitoring, testing, and automation. Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical challenges within production environments swiftly and effectively. Continuously assess and implement emerging technologies … operating large-scale cloud services using Docker and Kubernetes. Proven capability in writing and maintaining comprehensive automated unit and integration tests. Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and database technologies. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and automation frameworks. Skilled in production system ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
DCS Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65000 - £75000/annum
with a strong engineering culture and modern tech stack. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain applications using .NET technologies (C#) Build and deploy scalable systems within AWS cloud environments Contribute to architecture and technical decision-making Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver features Champion best practice …/CD pipelines and DevOps processes Required Experience Strong commercial experience with .NET/C# Hands-on experience with AWS (essential) Experience building scalable, distributed systems Strong understanding of APIs and microservices architecture Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps ways of working Ability to work autonomously ...

Technical Lead, AI Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
execution of conversational AI features that enable users to interact with Anaplan models through natural language Oversee the development of agentic AI systems that can autonomously analyse data, generate insights, and execute planning workflows Own the team's delivery roadmap, working closely with product management to prioritise features … teams Experience leading teams in fast‐growing startups or enterprise software companies Knowledge of financial planning, analytics, or business intelligence domains Experience with RAG systems, vector databases, and semantic search Familiarity with model fine‐tuning, evaluation, and continuous improvement workflows Background in distributed systems, microservices, or cloud ...

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE Squad Lead)

Hiring Organisation
Inspire People
Location
Manchester, North West, 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 ...

Solutions Architect

Hiring Organisation
Conferma Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
technology direction. Coach engineers and collaborate with product, delivery and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions. You will have: Experience designing enterprise-scale distributed systems. Strong background in Microsoft .NET and Azure cloud technologies. Experience designing RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures. Experience with microservices and cloud-native ...

Senior Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
INTEC SELECT LIMITED
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£650 per day
scale microservice architectures Strong Agile delivery experience Experience developing RESTful APIs Experience building automated testing frameworks Good understanding of Linux or Unix-based operating systems Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to changing priorities Desirable Experience Jackson … Mockito or similar mocking frameworks Kafka or ActiveMQ MongoDB or other NoSQL databases High-traffic, large-scale web applications Large data processing and distributed systems Responsive Web Design What's on Offer? 12-month contract Hybrid working (3 days per week onsite) Opportunity to work ...

Senior Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
performance tuning. Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3, Flexbox and CSS Grid. 5+ years of varied software engineering experience, ideally including scalable systems. Experience with distributed systems, monoliths or microservices. A keen interest in improving your craft by using AI. Bonus points if you have: Exposure to ElasticSearch, Event ...

AI Development Engineer

Hiring Organisation
AVT Reliability Ltd
Location
Warrington, Cheshire, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Knowledge of machine learning concepts and tools. Strong software development skills. Python development experience. SQL and database design experience. Understanding of REST APIs and distributed systems. Experience with Git and modern development practices. Desirable: C#, .NET, Vue.js, Azure, Docker, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Azure DevOps, Linux. Character Comfortable working across multiple ...