1 to 25 of 129 Remote/Hybrid Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Developer (Go / Golang)

Hiring Organisation
triSaaS
Location
United Kingdom
startup or fast-moving product environment Backend developer looking to move into a true full-stack role Developers with experience building scalable systems, APIs, and modern web applications will find this role particularly rewarding. What We Provide A collaborative and supportive engineering environment Opportunity to take ownership of features … APIs Develop frontend features to deliver complete product functionality Take end-to-end ownership of features from design through to deployment Work with distributed systems and microservices architectures Build and maintain APIs using GraphQL, REST, or gRPC Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver impactful features Proactively ...

Backend Software Engineer Junior-Mid Level - Programmatic

Hiring Organisation
Mobkoi
Location
City of London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
Programmatic, you will contribute to the development and evolution of MOBKOI’s programmatic advertising platform. You will work closely with experienced engineers on backend systems that power real-time bidding (RTB), campaign delivery, and large-scale integrations with SSPs and DSPs.This role is well suited to engineers early … their career who want to deepen their expertise in distributed systems, low-latency services, and cloud-based infrastructure, while gaining exposure to the programmatic advertising ecosystem. You will be supported through mentorship, code reviews, and progressive ownership of backend components. RESPONSIBILITIES • Contribute to the development and improvement ...

Senior Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Nicoll Curtin
Location
United Kingdom
Enterprise Architect (Hands-On) – C#/.NET Core | Azure | Distributed Systems | Global SaaS - Fully Remote We are looking for a highly technical, hands-on Enterprise Architect to help shape and scale a global technology platform following continued international growth, including expansion into North America. This … 30pm UK time) The Role -Own and evolve the enterprise architecture framework aligned to business growth -Design scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems -Lead monolith → microservices modernisation -Drive event-driven and clean architecture principles -Work hands-on with engineering on architecture and system design -Establish architectural standards, governance ...

Senior Software Engineer - Front End

Hiring Organisation
mkodo
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
wherever business needs require. Core areas of depth may include one or more of: Web/Front-end engineering Java/AWS backend and distributed systems React Native Android (Kotlin) iOS (Swift) Successful candidates demonstrate deep expertise in at least one of these areas while maintaining practical experience … across others. This role suits engineers who are highly autonomous, delivery-focused, and capable of owning technical design and execution for complex features and systems, while contributing to team growth and technical direction. What you’ll do: Engineering delivery & technical ownership Design, build, and deliver high-quality software across ...

Low Latency Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
looking for a high-calibre Solution Engineer with a passion for performance and capital markets technology to deliver complex, front-office trading systems for leading global investment banks, asset managers, fintechs and exchanges. This role sits at the intersection of engineering excellence, client engagement, and strategic delivery — working hands … latency trading solutions in capital markets environments Contributing directly to the codebase on the most technically challenging aspects of client deliveries Architecting performant, resilient distributed systems informed by deep domain knowledge Building solutions across OMS, EMS, Smart Order Routing, Matching Engines, FIX gateways and Risk platforms Working with ...

Lead .NET/Full Stack Developer - Hybrid - Up to £700/day Outside IR35 | C# | Azure | Event Driven Systems | Payments | API Driven

Hiring Organisation
VirtueTech Recruitment Group
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Lead .NET/Full Stack Developer - Hybrid - £700/day Outside IR35 | C# | Azure | Event Driven Systems | Payments | API Driven We have a unique opportunity for a Lead .NET/Full Stack Developer to join a payments company. As the Lead .NET/Full Stack Developer , you’ll play … closely with Product, Data, Risk, and Platform teams , you’ll help evolve the platform architecture and ensure the delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient distributed systems within a regulated fintech environment. 📍 2–3 days per week in the office – City of London 💰 Up to £700/day Outside ...

Senior Java Engineer (WebFlux)

Hiring Organisation
Fynity
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
week onsite) Are you a senior, hands-on Engineer who thrives in event-driven, asynchronous environments? Do you enjoy building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems where correctness, resilience, and performance really matter? This is an opportunity to work at the core of real-time payments infrastructure, helping … scale. What You’ll Be Doing You’ll play a senior individual-contributor role within a high-performing engineering team, building asynchronous, message-driven systems designed for scale, resilience, and near-zero downtime. Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency systems processing millions of real-time payment events ...

Site Reliability Engineer (Contractor)

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£540 - £550 per day
architectural decisions, and build automation that elevates deployment safety and operational efficiency. This is a hands-on, senior technical role with direct influence on systems that generate significant global revenue.Key ResponsibilitiesReliability & Risk Engineering* Identify systemic reliability risks and drive long-term preventative improvements* Define and refine SLIs, SLOs … teams to embed reliability into system designYOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCERequired:* Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience* 7+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles* Strong understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, and consistency models* Hands-on experience operating production workloads ...

System Engineer - Kubeflow - MLFlow - ID47089

Hiring Organisation
Humand Talent
Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
enjoy building infrastructure that powers complex engineering environments? Are you the type of engineer who loves improving performance, reliability and scalability across distributed systems? Looking for a role where your platform work directly enables advanced technical teams to innovate faster? Our client is seeking a Platform Engineer … great opportunity for a Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer or Kubernetes Engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and improving the systems other engineers rely on. Why This Role is Great This position offers the opportunity to design and evolve a modern infrastructure platform supporting demanding engineering workloads. ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
engineering team. The role sits within the development function and works closely with the CTO, researchers, and trading teams to build and maintain the systems that support live trading strategies. The position focuses on developing production services, improving platform reliability, and helping move quantitative research into robust, scalable trading … successful candidate will take ownership of a number of backend services that support the trading platform. This includes developing new functionality, maintaining existing systems, and improving operational tooling across the production environment. You will work closely with quantitative researchers and traders to translate research ideas into production-ready systems ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
disruption and enhanced performance. Automated Testing: Implement TDD and automated testing to uphold high-quality standards. Monitor and Analyze: Enhance performance and reliability across distributed systems to ensure operational efficiency. Build Automation Solutions: Develop CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and deployments to streamline processes. Security Practices: Uphold … preferred; solid mid-level considered). Deep hands-on AWS experience (core services, serverless, compute, networking). Proven experience in migrating or modernizing legacy systems into cloud environments. Proficiency in test-driven development (TDD) and automated testing frameworks. Familiarity with Agile delivery, especially Scrum methodologies. A solid foundation ...

Senior Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Hybrid - 1 day onsite, 4 days remote) Overview We are seeking a Senior Engineer to deliver across key Identity-focused workstreams within a modern, distributed engineering environment. You will bring a strong backend engineering foundation alongside hands-on delivery capability, operating across multiple services and components. This role requires … continuous improvement. You will work within a structured delivery framework while maintaining a strong focus on product impact, security, and customer outcomes. As identity systems increasingly interact with automated and AI-enabled workflows, we value engineers who stay aware of emerging security considerations within these modern environments. Core Technical ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Develop
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
typical feature-delivery role. This is an opportunity to help redefine how goods move in the digital economy- working at the intersection of distributed systems, routing algorithms, machine learning, and real-world operational systems. The Team Close to 100 people globally and will be looking to almost double … Data Culture built around experimentation, high standards and rapid feedback loops You'll work closely with senior engineering leadership who have previously scaled large distributed systems and ML-driven platforms at global technology companies. Tech Environment Backend systems currently built in Python, looking to move to Golang ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Team Lead)

Hiring Organisation
Futuria
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
where you'll split your time between writing production code and mentoring engineers. You'll lead a cross-functional engineering team working across our distributed platform stack. You're accountable for your team's execution, code quality, testing practices, and continuous improvement. This is NOT a product management role … leading or mentoring engineers Strong expertise in Python backend development with async patterns Production experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture and API design Experience with container orchestration, CI/CD, and cloud platforms Experience with NoSQL databases and data modelling Daily ...

Senior SRE

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
Nationwide, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£30 - £32/hour Negotiable
that supports millions of customer devices across 8 international data centers. This isn't just about monitoring; it's about building the high-performance, distributed systems that ensure our global cloud remains performant while scaling 2-3x every year. The Scale of the Challenge As a Lead … logging systems. Infrastructure as Code: Leverage Terraform and Ansible to deploy across both public and private cloud environments. What We're Looking For Distributed Systems Expert: 5+ years of experience operating mid-to-large scale systems on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) -whether on VMs or bare metal. ...

Platform Engineer ID47089

Hiring Organisation
Humand Talent
Location
Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
+ Kubernetes – to £75k Oxford | Hybrid Do you enjoy building infrastructure that engineers rely on every day? Interested in working hands-on with Linux systems, Kubernetes clusters and containerised platforms Our client is looking for a Platform Engineer to help design, build and maintain the infrastructure supporting complex engineering … opportunity to: Design and manage Kubernetes clusters Maintain and optimise Linux-based infrastructure Run and scale containerised services Work with networking, storage and distributed systems Build automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions Support engineering teams by maintaining reliable platform environments About You You may currently be a Platform ...

Principal Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
commercially aligned architecture at serious scale. You will sit at the intersection of product, engineering and enterprise stakeholders, owning solution design across complex distributed systems, driving architectural standards, and influencing long-term platform strategy across multiple business domains. What You'll Be Doing Designing scalable, cloud-native solutions … across Azure Defining architectural patterns for event-driven and microservices-based systems Working closely with senior engineering leaders and product teams Translating complex business capability into robust technical solutions Driving integration strategy across internal and external platforms Governing design quality without becoming a bottleneck Environment Azure cloud-native platform ...

Head of Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£130,000 - £150,000 per annum
will lead multiple engineering teams across data, ML, web, QA and DevOps disciplines to deliver a platform that processes massive datasets, powers complex distributed systems and provides high-value insights to enterprise clients. You will shape engineering strategy, strengthen execution and drive the organisation's evolution … engineering roadmap across all product and platform areas Lead architectural direction for data processing, machine learning pipelines and web application development Ensure systems are scalable, reliable and capable of handling large-scale data and evolving ML workloads Introduce and measure engineering KPIs Drive improvements in delivery processes, release quality ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Network IT Recruitment
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 60,000 - 67,000 Annual
seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to drive technical excellence, shape modern engineering practices, and provide end to end leadership across complex software and systems delivery. This role is ideal for a proven technical leader who enjoys balancing architecture, hands on engineering, mentoring, and driving continuous improvement. You'll help … skills growth and professional development. Driving engineering best practice across DevOps, agile delivery, tooling, automation, testing, and CI/CD. Designing and architecting complex systems, ensuring scalable, cost effective, and maintainable solutions. Owning local architecture decisions, collaborating closely with solution architects and product leads. Overseeing full life cycle delivery ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
United Kingdom
with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production , Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We’re looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You’ll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet’s Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

Senior Java Spring Boot Developer

Hiring Organisation
Infoplus Technologies UK Ltd
Location
Norwich, Norfolk, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £400 to £550 per day
databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis). Write optimized SQL queries, design schemas, and build repository layers via JPA/Hibernate. Understand caching patterns and distributed cache strategies. Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with unit, integration, and contract tests (JUnit, Mockito). Ensure secure development using OWASP principles, authentication … Core, Spring Data, Spring Security REST API design Microservices patterns (circuit breakers, retries, service discovery, resilience patterns) Experience with: SQL/NoSQL databases Messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ) Containerization (Docker) & Kubernetes Solid understanding of: Multithreading & concurrency Design patterns Distributed systems concepts Hands-on experience with CI/ ...

Lead Integration Engineer & Developer

Hiring Organisation
Ashdown Group
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
company based in Liverpool is requires a hands-on Lead Integration Engineer & Developer to take ownership of their growing integration platform connecting core internal systems with external partners and services. This is a high-impact role combining deep technical delivery with architectural leadership. Youll spend a significant portion … your time building production systems, while also shaping the future of their integration ecosystem. The platform is built around HubSpot and a modern event-driven architecture in AWS, and youll play a key role in defining how they design APIs, process events, and scale integrations across the business. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...