76 to 100 of 2,060 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK

Software Engineer (EMS)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
optimising a next-generation multi-region, multi-tenanted Execution Management System (EMS) platform. The ideal candidate will have experience building concurrent, performance sensitive systems where correctness and high availability are maintained across multiple regions to meet the stringent demands of our global trading customers. Key Responsibilities Platform Development: Design … implement low-latency, high-throughput systems for a multi-region, multi-tenanted EMS platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards. Latency Optimisation: Analyse and optimise critical paths in the system to reduce latency and improve performance. Distributed Systems: Maintain distributed, fault-tolerant systems with high availability ...

Staff Engineer - Content Intelligence Infrastructure

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
expressive, and unmistakably Spotify. The Content Intelligence Product Area is a core part of Spotify’s Content Platform within the Experience mission. We build systems that create deep, machine-readable understanding of content across audio, video, text, and images before it reaches users. This enables automation, safety, and entirely … product experiences. Our work powers content enrichment, quality analysis, annotation platforms, and scalable intelligence systems that allow teams across Spotify to build without needing direct content understanding expertise. We’re now looking for a Staff Engineer to help build and scale foundational infrastructure powering content understanding across Spotify. This ...

Software Engineer - Object Storage,

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
storage platforms — used by hundreds of internal services at exabyte scale. You'll take ownership of some of the hardest problems in large-scale distributed storage: from keeping thousands of tenants fairly and safely sharing the same infrastructure, to improving durability, performance, and scalability as the platform continues … scale. Designing for hardware and component failure as a constant, not an edge case, while keeping data durable and available across a massive, distributed fleet.Performance and efficiency. Finding and eliminating bottlenecks in a complex system, and making sure optimization effort goes where it has the most impact.Architectural evolution. Retiring ...

Java Software Developer - Trading Systems (Remote) Amsterdam or London

Hiring Organisation
Quant Capital
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Java Software Developer – Trading Systems (Remote) Amsterdam or LondonQuant Capital is partnered with a leading technology-driven trading firm looking to hire an experienced Java Software Developer. This is a hands-on engineering role building the core software platform used across research, trading systems and operations. The role … suits a strong software engineer who enjoys solving hard technical problems, understands distributed systems, and writes clean, reliable Java. You will work close to research and infrastructure teams, improving performance, extending platform capability and supporting new markets, products and functionality. What you will be doing Build and improve ...

Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Crawler

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
verified real-world data. Search is the foundation that makes this possible. We are building an agent-native search platform designed specifically for AI systems rather than human users. Our product provides programmatic, low-latency, and observable search APIs that AI agents use to retrieve, filter, and reason over … content acquisition and crawling infrastructure of a novel search engine tailored for agentic AI consumption. In this role, you will focus on building systems that discover, fetch, and continuously refresh content from the open web and other large-scale data sources. You will design distributed crawling, scheduling ...

Vice President, Credit Technology Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Ares Management
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
experience building enterprise-grade applications within financial services environments, with deep expertise in modern full-stack development, cloud-native architectures, microservices, data platforms, messaging systems, and software engineering best practices. Experience supporting credit investment, lending, portfolio management, or alternative asset management platforms is strongly preferred. This individual will partner … with enterprise engineering standards. Platform Architecture & System Design Design and evolve modern cloud-native architectures supporting the credit technology ecosystem. Define architecture standards for distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservices. Drive engineering decisions related to scalability, resiliency, performance, observability, and operational excellence. Evaluate new technologies ...

Software Engineer - Security & Intelligence

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
stack applications using frameworks such as React, Node.js, Spring Boot, Next.js or similar Designing and developing APIs, microservices and backend services for secure mission systems Integrating applications with cloud, data, analytics and streaming platforms Supporting the delivery of distributed software systems across secure and operational environments … Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain secure software applications, services, APIs and integrations within classified environments Build scalable, distributed systems supporting data, analytics and mission-critical workloads Develop full-stack features and backend services aligned to performance, reliability and security requirements Contribute to software design, architecture decisions and technical ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Take on ambiguous reliability, scalability, and efficiency challenges and drive solutions across SRE and development teams Build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems supporting the Genesis platform Optimize existing systems and build infrastructure Eliminate toil through automation to improve uptime and rate of change … Work across teams to build robust, reusable solutions Requirements Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or similar Extensive experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems Deep expertise with cloud computing platforms, including Kubernetes and Cloud Functions Expertise in Non-Abstract Large Systems Design (NALSD) Experience leading ...

Quantitative Developer

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
strategy work, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with top-tier quant researchers as your understanding of the business deepens. What You'll Be Doing : Architecting distributed Python systems that handle exabyte-scale market data with real reliability and speed Building the tooling, pipelines and platforms that let quant researchers … move faster and dig up new alpha Tackling hard problems in distributed computing, storage, parallelisation and high-performance data engineering Working directly with quants and traders to turn research ideas into production-grade systems Relentlessly tuning latency, throughput and efficiency across the stack Owning major platform components ...

Platform Specialist - PLS

Hiring Organisation
SQUAREPOINT CAPITAL
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
maintain enterprise-grade storage services that are continuously scaling to support the growth of the company. This role requires in-depth knowledge of distributed storage systems, storage architectures, and storage protocols, including performance optimization, capacity planning, and data lifecycle management. The candidate will ideally have experience with … premises storage infrastructure, network-attached storage, parallel file systems, object storage, and cloud-based storage platforms. Your day-to-day could consist of storage infrastructure design and deployment, performance tuning and troubleshooting, monitoring and alerting improvements, capacity management, automation and tool development, and much more. Main Duties & Responsibilities Design ...

Technical & Solution Architect (Distributed Ledger / Regulated Financial Services)

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Title: Technical & Solution Architect (Distributed Ledger/Regulated Financial Services) Location : Hybrid - remote + regular on-site (London) This is a hands-on technical leadership position in the making. You will work across product management, engineering, and client-facing discussions to evolve the design of a distributed ledger … market structure, along with a clear path to grow into a formal Technical & Solution Architect position. Responsibilities: Architecture & System Design: Design scalable, secure distributed systems in regulated environments Define and evolve system architecture, APIs, and integration patterns Apply appropriate software design patterns and architectural principles Contribute to smart ...

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
build scalable applications, services and platforms across On the Beach. This is a full-stack engineering position with a stronger emphasis on backend engineering, distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Our backend engineers solve a wide variety of problems. You could be working on systems responsible … doing day to day Designing and building scalable backend applications and services Developing APIs used by customer-facing applications and internal systems Integrating with external suppliers and third-party platforms Building systems that process high volumes of requests and data Designing distributed and event-driven architectures Working ...

Senior Java/Kotlin Software Engineer - London

Hiring Organisation
Zopa
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Instagram @zopalifeThe engineering challengeOur Software Engineers don't just write code, they solve real financial problems for millions of customers. You'll work on distributed systems processing thousands of transactions daily, build resilient services that handle people's money, and create experiences that make traditionally complex financial products … codeAn advocate of test-driven development or, even better, behaviour-driven development. A strong commitment to quality is essentialYou've worked on large scale distributed software systems that have proven scalability and complex topologiesEnjoy talking to key stakeholders and understand and show passion for the business objectives ...

2026 Q4 UK Java Pipeline

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
complete trade lifecycle across multiple asset classes and international markets. This is an opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at scale, developing the systems that sit at the heart of trade matching, clearing, settlement and reconciliation. You'll also play a key role in evolving the firm's broader … next-generation analytics. Working alongside exceptional engineers in London and New York, you'll help drive the firm's modernisation strategy, contributing to distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, advanced analytics and AI-driven initiatives that directly influence trading operations worldwide. What You’ll Be Doing We're partnering ...

Deployment Engineering Director, Systems Engineering New UK

Location
United Kingdom
future. About The Role We are seeking a Deployment Engineering Director to lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company. You will drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve delivery velocity, system reliability, and product quality through systems validation. … engineering quality and operational excellence. What You'll Be Doing Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company. Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve delivery velocity, system reliability/quality based on systems validations, and evolve ...

Fractional Lead Graph Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Elliot Marsh
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Part Time
detection of risk and anomalies. The business is now building the technical foundations of the platform and is looking for an experienced graph and distributed systems specialist who can provide senior-level expertise on a fractional basis. Fractional Lead Graph Engineer The Role: The Fractional Lead Graph Engineer … infrastructure specialists, transferring knowledge into the wider engineering team Fractional Lead Graph Engineer You: - Significant commercial experience designing and scaling enterprise graph databases, distributed data systems or high-volume event-driven backends - Strong production experience with Neo4j and graph query languages such as Cypher or Gremlin - Deep understanding ...

Fractional Lead Graph Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Elliot Marsh Head Hunting Partners
Location
London, South East England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Part-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
detection of risk and anomalies. The business is now building the technical foundations of the platform and is looking for an experienced graph and distributed systems specialist who can provide senior-level expertise on a fractional basis. Fractional Lead Graph Engineer – The Role: The Fractional Lead Graph Engineer … infrastructure specialists, transferring knowledge into the wider engineering team Fractional Lead Graph Engineer – You: - Significant commercial experience designing and scaling enterprise graph databases, distributed data systems or high-volume event-driven backends - Strong production experience with Neo4j and graph query languages such as Cypher or Gremlin - Deep understanding ...

Senior Software Engineer - iCloud Platform - Observability

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
experienced Software Engineer to help develop the next-generation of Apple's cloud services platform and infrastructure. You will be working on foundational systems that power iCloud services, including distributed data platforms, storage systems, and a unified observability infrastructure that standardizes monitoring and telemetry approaches across … highest priority on user experience and data privacy. Description We're looking for engineers with a strong track record of building fault-tolerant, distributed systems, and the judgment to operate confidently in a complex, high-scale environment. Our engineers demonstrate unique leadership skills and can excel ...

Senior Software Engineer - DataHub Experience & Control Plane

Hiring Organisation
Bloomberg
Location
London, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
stack required to make it real. What's the role? This is a senior full-stack engineering role at the intersection of product experience, distributed systems, developer platforms, data infrastructure, and AI-ready metadata. You will help design and build the next generation of DataHub: the interfaces, backend … services, and control-plane systems that allow Bloomberg engineers to move from intent to outcome — from finding the right dataset to understanding it, accessing it, provisioning infrastructure around it, querying it, publishing it, and operating it safely in production. This is not only a frontend role ...

Lead Web Developer / ABZ- HR042

Location
Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
applications and platform services. This role combines hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and people management, with responsibility for delivering scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems that support real-time and data-intensive workflows. You will work closely with Product, Architecture, and Operations teams to define technical direction, drive delivery … ensure engineering excellence across distributed teams. Duties and Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture Own the architecture and design of scalable, high-availability web platforms and services Lead design discussions, perform architectural reviews, and make key technical decisions Define and enforce engineering standards, coding practices, and system design principles Drive adoption ...

Product Engineer (Backend, Full Stack) | Python, TypeScript, AWS | Climate Tech x Energy Trading | Real-Time Systems, High Ownership, 0→1 Product Builds | London (Hybrid, 3 Days) | £80-120k + Equity

Hiring Organisation
Owen Thomas | B Corp™
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Product Engineer (Backend, Full Stack) | Python, TypeScript, AWS | Climate Tech x Energy Trading | Real-Time Systems, High Ownership, 0→1 Product Builds | London (Hybrid, 3 Days) | £80-120k + Equity The Company The energy industry is undergoing one of its biggest transformations in decades. We're partnering with … climate technology company building software that sits at the heart of the transition towards a cleaner, more intelligent electricity grid. Rather than improving existing systems, they're building an entirely new platform from the ground up - combining real-time data, distributed hardware, AI, and energy trading to solve ...

Product Engineer (Backend, Full Stack) | Python, TypeScript, AWS | Climate Tech x Energy Trading | Real-Time Systems, High Ownership, 0→1 Product Builds | London (Hybrid, 3 Days) | £80-120k + Equity

Hiring Organisation
Owen Thomas | B Corp™
Location
United Kingdom, UK
Product Engineer (Backend, Full Stack) | Python, TypeScript, AWS | Climate Tech x Energy Trading | Real-Time Systems, High Ownership, 0→1 Product Builds | London (Hybrid, 3 Days) | £80-120k + Equity The Company The energy industry is undergoing one of its biggest transformations in decades. We're partnering with … climate technology company building software that sits at the heart of the transition towards a cleaner, more intelligent electricity grid. Rather than improving existing systems, they're building an entirely new platform from the ground up - combining real-time data, distributed hardware, AI, and energy trading to solve ...

Senior Software Engineer, Training & Experimentation

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction. Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning … challenge ourselves to grow, and focus on the work that matters most. Think Long-Term: We design for what's next. We create scalable systems, simplify complexity, and use AI and automation to amplify our impact. What We're Looking For The Training & Experimentation team at Lightning AI builds ...

Software Development Engineer - Personalisation

Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
real-time recommendations, offers, targeting, andexperimentation across our web, mobile, and in-store channels.Our platforms combine real-time data, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems toturn customer insights into intelligent decisions in milliseconds. You'll work on complexengineering challenges spanning streaming data, low-latency decisioning services … MLpowered systems, while collaborating closely with product, data science, and analytics teams. This is an opportunity to build technology at significant scale, influence the evolution of ourpersonalisation platform, and directly impact how millions of customers discover, shop, and savewith Tesco. You will be responsible for · Building low-latency, high ...

Software Developer - Data Platform & Distributed Systems

Location
Crawley, England, United Kingdom
that efficiently and responsibly resolve complex natural resource, digital, energy transition and infrastructure challenges.#**Job Details**Viridien is seeking a **Software Developer - Data Platform & Distributed Systems** to contribute to the design and development of a distributed, microservices-based platform supporting data cataloguing, metadata management, and high-volume … Kubernetes, using technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, and Golang.#**About The Team**You will join a team focused on building scalable, distributed data platforms that support high-volume, data-intensive workflows.The team works across backend engineering, infrastructure, and data systems, collaborating to deliver reliable, high-performance ...