1 to 25 of 158 Remote/Hybrid Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

environment demands somebody capable of operating strategically while remaining technically credible and close to engineering teams. The successful person will influence architecture decisions across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, integrations, APIs, and modern software delivery practices while helping teams solve genuinely complex technical problems at scale. The organisation … will be joining a business where architecture has genuine visibility and influence. The engineering landscape includes modern cloud-native platforms, high-volume transactional systems, large-scale integrations, distributed services, and evolving product ecosystems across multiple business domains. You will work directly with senior technology leaders and high-performing ...

time trading activity every day. They are continuing to invest heavily in engineering, platform resilience, and product growth, with a strong focus on modern systems, high standards, and sustainable delivery. The role This is a senior engineering opportunity within a specialist Site Reliability Engineering team focused on performance, uptime … with reliability engineering. You’ll be involved in designing and building internal tooling, improving observability, automating operations, supporting development teams, and helping ensure trading systems remain stable, scalable, and high performing. It would suit someone who enjoys solving technical problems at scale and wants to work close to production ...

Contract | Inside IR35 | Hybrid London We're working with a global Real Time data platform operating in ultra-low latency, high-throughput environments across distributed systems. This role sits in a specialist engineering team building Kernel-level observability and telemetry infrastructure used to monitor and understand system behaviour … Real Time. What you'll be doing Build Kernel-level observability and instrumentation systems for distributed Real Time infrastructure Develop telemetry pipelines using eBPF-based tooling (metrics, logs, traces at Kernel level) Design and implement system-wide visibility across latency-critical services Work with hotspot detection, performance profiling ...

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 ...

Join a high-performing engineering team delivering mission-critical solutions within the defence and national security space. You’ll work on complex, high-stakes systems where reliability, performance, and security are paramount — contributing to technology that truly matters. This opportunity is open to engineers across Junior, Mid, and Senior … chance to work alongside experienced engineers, data scientists, and domain experts. What You’ll Do Design, develop, and maintain secure, high-performance software systems Write clean, scalable code in languages such as Python, C++, Java, or JavaScript Contribute to system architecture and technical decision-making (level dependent) Collaborate with ...

Looking to build ultra-high-performance systems used by millions, while working fully remote in one of the most exciting spaces in tech? Software Engineer (C++) – Leading Crypto Trading Platform 🚀🪙 Salary: up to £160k + bonus + RSUs Location: Fully Remote in UK & Ireland We’re partnered with … Engineers to join their Trading Technology team. This is a unique opportunity to work on the core of a world-class trading platform, developing systems that demand extreme performance, reliability, and scalability in a low-latency, high-throughput environment. What you’ll be working on: Designing and building components ...

Looking to build ultra-high-performance systems used by millions, while working fully remote in one of the most exciting spaces in tech? Software Engineer (C++) - Leading Crypto Trading Platform Salary: up to £160k + bonus + RSUs Location: Fully Remote in UK & Ireland We're partnered with … Engineers to join their Trading Technology team. This is a unique opportunity to work on the core of a world-class trading platform, developing systems that demand extreme performance, reliability, and scalability in a low-latency, high-throughput environment. What you'll be working on: Designing and building components ...

senior/lead hands-on Engineer who thrives in Payments environments? Do you have a background in building low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems where correctness, resilience, and performance really matter? This is a great opportunity to work with some of the worlds leading Banks on their real … Doing You’ll work directly with some of the worlds leading banks in their high-performing engineering teams, 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 Build event ...

Senior Software Engineer (C++) 📍 Remote (UK/Europe) 🏦 High-Performance Trading Systems 💰 Up to £180k + bonus + equity We’re hiring a Senior C++ Engineer to work on the systems that sit at the heart of a global trading platform. This is a backend, systems-focused … working on the core framework and performance-critical components that underpin the trading engine. Your responsibilities will include: Designing and building low-level systems that support high-frequency transaction processing Developing robust, reusable components used across the trading platform Engineering for low latency, high throughput, and system resilience Working ...

have the opportunity to: Lead architecture across large-scale, high-impact data programmes Define data strategies covering migration, integration, and modelling Shape distributed data solutions across cloud and hybrid environments Influence architectural standards and engineering best practice Work across both public sector and enterprise clients Mentor engineers and contribute … growing technical capability Your Responsibilities Define architecture across complex, data-driven programmes Establish data strategy, integration, and migration approaches Analyse existing systems and map target-state architecture Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and governance Design scalable solutions for distributed and large-scale data systems Develop enterprise ...

have the opportunity to: Lead architecture across large-scale, high-impact data programmes Define data strategies covering migration, integration, and modelling Shape distributed data solutions across cloud and hybrid environments Influence architectural standards and engineering best practice Work across both public sector and enterprise clients Mentor engineers and contribute … growing technical capability Your Responsibilities Define architecture across complex, data-driven programmes Establish data strategy, integration, and migration approaches Analyse existing systems and map target-state architecture Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and governance Design scalable solutions for distributed and large-scale data systems Develop enterprise ...

have the opportunity to: Lead architecture across large-scale, high-impact data programmes Define data strategies covering migration, integration, and modelling Shape distributed data solutions across cloud and hybrid environments Influence architectural standards and engineering best practice Work across both public sector and enterprise clients Mentor engineers and contribute … growing technical capability Your Responsibilities Define architecture across complex, data-driven programmes Establish data strategy, integration, and migration approaches Analyse existing systems and map target-state architecture Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and governance Design scalable solutions for distributed and large-scale data systems Develop enterprise ...

hands-on role, but with added ownership around shaping strategy, influencing architecture and mentoring engineers. You will be solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems, while helping define how reliability is embedded across the wider platform as it continues to scale. Key Responsibilities Leading the design and evolution … monitoring and observability systems Defining and driving SLOs, SLIs and error budgets across teams Owning incident management processes, post-mortems and continuous improvement Partnering with engineering teams to design resilient, fault-tolerant systems Driving automation across infrastructure, deployments and operational workflows Contributing to capacity planning, performance optimisation ...

optimising real-time trading systems. This is a hands-on C++ role focused on: Real-time market data processing High-throughput, low-latency systems Trading infrastructure and execution pipelines Performance optimisation across distributed systems What You’ll Do Design and build high-performance C++ systems Optimise … decisions What You’ll Need Strong C++ experience (modern C++ preferred) Low-latency or HFT exposure Experience working on performance-critical or real-time systems Strong understanding of: Concurrency/multithreading Memory management Data structures and algorithms Linux environment experience Strong problem-solving ability Nice to Have Trading/ ...

Product Engineer (Full Stack/AI Systems) We are building a new generation of AI-powered products and are looking for a hands-on AI Product Engineer to help design, build, and scale intelligent systems in production. This is not a pure research or infrastructure role. … APIs using modern cloud infrastructure C#, .NET Experience Develop responsive frontend applications and translate product designs into working interfaces Work with event-driven and distributed systems where required Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to deliver customer-facing AI features Contribute to system design decisions including ...

will take ownership of critical platform services, lead a high-performing team, and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of systems that operate at real scale. Youll be working in an environment that prioritises: Modern engineering standards Cloud-native architecture Event-driven systems Continuous delivery … architecture. You will: Lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting the standard for engineering quality Design and build scalable, resilient, cloud-native systems Collaborate with Product and Architecture to define technical direction Drive best practices across CI/CD, testing, and modern software engineering Take ownership of system ...

Java Engineer Contract Location: Hybrid (1 day per week in Farnborough, UK) Contract Duration: Initial 912 months Rate: £500 Why this role? Complex Systems: Work on large-scale, high-throughput platforms Modern Stack: Cloud-native architecture using AWS and containers Impactful Domain: Build and evolve payment-centric systems … delivering high-scale, mission-critical platforms within the payments and data space. This role suits an experienced Java Engineer who is comfortable working in distributed systems, cloud environments, and data-heavy architectures. Youll be joining a team solving real scalability and reliability challenges, with autonomy and ownership from ...

offerings. The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with applied AI/ML expertise, enabling the development of scalable, production-grade AI systems in a regulated financial services environment. Location: UK or EU Hybrid/Remote: Remote (Occasional travel required) Responsibilities: AI Solution Development Design, build … Data Engineering Collaboration Partner with data engineers to ensure data quality, availability, and pipeline integrity Work with structured and unstructured datasets across large-scale, distributed systems Innovation & Continuous Improvement Stay current with advancements in AI, GenAI, and emerging technologies Contribute to experimentation, prototyping, and innovation initiatives Identify opportunities ...

building robust, scalable data pipelines that underpin analytics and AI solutions. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with real-time data, distributed systems, and modern cloud architectures . What youll be doing Design and build scalable data pipelines (batch & streaming) Work with technologies like Kafka … datasets What were looking for Strong programming skills in Java (preferred) or Python Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka/Flink/Spark) Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale data processing Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) Familiarity with DevOps tools and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) The offer ...

used by millions of customers. This role will focus on driving engineering excellence, defining technical standards and leading the design of scalable, high-availability systems across a modern cloud-native environment. Responsibilities for the Principal Java Engineer: Define and evolve engineering strategy, standards and best practices across your domain … Lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams and programmes Design and oversee delivery of large-scale, distributed systems using modern technologies Provide expert guidance on technical risk, architecture decisions and prioritisation Support Staff Engineers and development teams with deep technical leadership Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/ ...

used by millions of customers. This role will focus on driving engineering excellence, defining technical standards and leading the design of scalable, high-availability systems across a modern cloud-native environment. Responsibilities for the Principal Java Engineer: Define and evolve engineering strategy, standards and best practices across your domain … Lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams and programmes Design and oversee delivery of large-scale, distributed systems using modern technologies Provide expert guidance on technical risk, architecture decisions and prioritisation Support Staff Engineers and development teams with deep technical leadership Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/ ...

used by millions of customers. This role will focus on driving engineering excellence, defining technical standards and leading the design of scalable, high-availability systems across a modern cloud-native environment. Responsibilities for the Principal Java Engineer: Define and evolve engineering strategy, standards and best practices across your domain … Lead technical direction across multiple engineering teams and programmes Design and oversee delivery of large-scale, distributed systems using modern technologies Provide expert guidance on technical risk, architecture decisions and prioritisation Support Staff Engineers and development teams with deep technical leadership Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/ ...

+ 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 ...

shape scalable, cloud-native integration platforms within a collaborative, agile environment. The Role You’ll provide hands-on technical leadership across integration services and distributed systems, working closely with Engineering and Architecture teams to deliver resilient, scalable solutions at pace. You’ll play a key role in architectural … security. Key Responsibilities Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering squad Drive technical direction for integration services and platforms Design and implement APIs, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures Build scalable Azure-native solutions using modern cloud services Remove technical blockers and support delivery across teams Promote engineering best ...

complex programmes Shape data strategy, migration, and integration approaches Design enterprise data models across structured and unstructured environments Architect solutions across big data and distributed systems Set architectural standards, frameworks, and best practices Provide technical leadership and governance across delivery Engage senior stakeholders and translate technical concepts into … data strategy, migration, and integration approaches Hands-on capability with technologies like Java, Scala, or Python (when needed) Experience with Big Data technologies and distributed systems Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and data services Experience across both open-source and vendor data platforms Solid understanding of microservices architecture ...