26 to 50 of 432 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Low Latency Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
London Area, 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 ...

Principal Software Engineer - C++ Robotics System

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
London (Hybrid) Define how a complex, real‐world system scales — technically and organisationally. At sees.ai, we’ve built a system that enables unmanned aerial systems to carry out inspections of critical national infrastructure, making these missions repeatable, scalable, and commercially viable for asset owners. This is not a prototype … stack, while staying close enough to the system to ensure decisions hold up in the real world. You’ll work across: Flight and mission systems Operator interfaces and 3D environments Connectivity and distributed systems Simulation, testing, and data pipelines Your primary impact will be in: Defining architecture ...

Lead Architect

Hiring Organisation
Accelerant
Location
United Kingdom
clearly communicated, understood, and consistently applied Design and Innovation Define and maintain architectural patterns across backend services, APIs, data platforms, and front end systems Design scalable, resilient systems for analytics, workflow orchestration, and intelligence features Guide decomposition of legacy systems into well defined services and domains Evaluate … technologies and data stores, favoring open standards and long term maintainability Architect distributed systems with focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability Standards & Governance Establish API design standards ensuring consistency, discoverability, and ease of integration Define front end standards prioritizing web platform capabilities, progressive enhancement, and accessibility (WCAG ...

Software Engineer (Junior–Senior) | £35,000–£80,000+ | North East| Defence Sector

Hiring Organisation
IT Graduate Recruitment
Location
North East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£35,000 per annum
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 ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
United Kingdom
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 ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£130,000 - £160,000 per annum
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 ...

Software Engineer (Junior, Mid & Senior) – Systematic Trading/Elite Hedge Fund) - £80-150k plus bonus

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
complex, high-impact problems at scale. The Opportunity You will work at the intersection of advanced engineering and quantitative finance, building highly performant, scalable systems that directly power trading strategies and research workflows. This is a front-office role with immediate impact on PnL, collaborating closely with world-class … quants, researchers, and technologists. Key Responsibilities Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput trading systems and research infrastructure Work closely with quantitative researchers to translate models into production-grade systems Optimise performance across distributed systems handling large-scale financial data Contribute to architectural decisions ...

Staff DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Humanoid
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
integrate into daily life and amplify human capacity. We are building large-scale compute infrastructure to train next-generation robotics models, including transformer-based systems like VLA. As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the design and evolution of our multi-GPU, cross-cloud platforms, driving architecture, reliability … performance at scale. This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, MLOps, and distributed systems, enabling cutting-edge AI in real-world environments. What You’ll Do: Lead the design and evolution of scalable multi-GPU infrastructure across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc.) Own architecture and long-term ...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Realm
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
functional collaboration, and full lifecycle responsibility. Role Overview: Position operating across software, infrastructure, and operations to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of a globally distributed compute platform. Close collaboration with networking, platform engineering, and physical infrastructure teams to design and operate systems supporting high-demand computational workloads. Hands … engineering role requiring strong systems expertise, with responsibility for resolving complex production issues, improving system resilience, and enhancing platform observability. Responsibilities Deployment and management of large-scale compute clusters using automation tooling, with adaptation to customer requirements Validation and optimisation of compute, storage, and networking systems in coordination ...

Backend Node.JS Developer - London - PropTech AI StartUp

Hiring Organisation
Transparent Technology
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
backend architecture, APIs, and microservices that power an AI assistant operating in real-time production environments. You'll design and build scalable systems using Node.js and TypeScript, working across REST APIs, event-driven architecture, data pipelines, and distributed systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability as the platform … building and maintaining scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations, designing microservices and event-driven architectures, implementing CI/CD, observability, and monitoring, and ensuring systems are secure, reliable, and performant. You'll also play a key role in technical strategy, code quality, and engineering standards, helping shape the future ...

Payments Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Fynity
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
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 ...

Java Engineer - FS/Payments

Hiring Organisation
Fynity
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
senior/lead hands-on Engineer who thrives in Banking, Financial Services or Payments 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 ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
United Kingdom
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 ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£90,000
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 ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£90,000
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 ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£90,000
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 ...

Telemetry and Observability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£475 - £515 per day
highly skilled Telemetry & Observability Engineer to join a large-scale enterprise engineering environment focused on improving system reliability, visibility, and operational intelligence across complex distributed platforms. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who can go beyond using observability tools and instead design, build, and automate observability … telemetry solutions from the ground up. You will be responsible for building and evolving telemetry pipelines and observability infrastructure across a distributed, cloud-native environment. Working closely with network, platform, and software engineering teams, you will help embed observability into engineering workflows and CI/CD processes. Key Responsibilities ...

Principal Software Engineer - C++ Robotics System

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom | Posted on 21/04/2026 About the Company At sees.ai, we’ve built a system that enables unmanned aerial systems to carry out inspections of critical national infrastructure, making these missions repeatable, scalable, and commercially viable for asset owners. This is not a prototype … entire software stack while staying close enough to the system to ensure decisions hold up in the real world. Work across flight and mission systems, operator interfaces and 3D environments, connectivity and distributed systems, and simulation, testing, and data pipelines. Define architecture and technical strategy, drive engineering ...

HFT Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
United Kingdom
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/ ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £85,000 per annum, Inc benefits
Type: Full-time Seniority: Senior Level Salary: £85,000 + Bonus Are you a highly experienced Software Engineer ready to take ownership of complex systems and drive engineering excellence in a fast-paced environment? We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in designing … cloud-based platforms. This is an opportunity to act as a technical leader: influencing design, championing best practices, and building robust, secure, and maintainable systems while working in a collaborative, high-performing team. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack applications using modern technologies Lead ...

Lead SRE

Hiring Organisation
Pulse Recruit
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
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 ...

AI Product Engineer (Full Stack / AI Systems)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
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 ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
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 ...

Senior Platform Architect - AWS / TypeScript

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Opportunity This role sits at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and business strategy . You'll take ownership of architectural direction across a globally distributed engineering function , working closely with senior stakeholders to shape how the platform evolves - both technically and commercially. This isn't governance from a distance … stack. What You'll Be Doing Define and own the platform architecture strategy across multiple teams and regions Drive the transition from legacy systems to cloud-native architecture Ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and built for long-term growth Partner closely with engineers to embed modern development practices ...

Core Engineer (C++)

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
looking to work on problems that genuinely test the limits of performance, scale, and engineering craft? We are building a small, elite team of systems engineers to design and evolve the core infrastructure that powers a highly sophisticated trading platform. This is not application level development. This is deep … work on performance critical systems where nanoseconds matter, correctness is non negotiable, and your decisions directly impact real world outcomes. You will be working on the foundations of the trading stack, including market data, execution, simulation, and internal infrastructure. The problems are hard, the standards are high ...