51 to 75 of 154 Distributed Systems Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Backend Engineer to lead the evolution of a global platform supporting international expansion and acquisition integration. This role focuses on building and scaling transaction systems that enable global commerce, while evolving an existing real-time platform to support new markets. You will address backend capacity constraints and help design … senior engineering role requiring both high-quality delivery and strong technical leadership in ambiguous, high-scale environments. You will be expected to: Design scalable systems with correctness and failure modes considered from the outset Clarify and scope requirements before proposing solutions Make pragmatic trade-offs in system design, avoiding ...

Site Reliability / Software Engineer - SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Searchability NS&D
Location
Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£45,000 - £65,000 per annum
Bonus To appy, email: Overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a technically versatile engineer to join a growing team delivering secure, mission-critical systems within a highly regulated environment. This role combines hands-on software engineering with Site Reliability and DevOps responsibilities, making it ideal for someone … development, deployment automation, monitoring and live service support. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain secure, scalable software applications and services Support and enhance critical live systems, improving reliability and stability Automate operational and deployment tasks to reduce manual effort Contribute to backend and service development using Java and Python Work ...

Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
OpenSourced Ltd
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £70,000 per annum
directly controls physical robotic platforms operating in demanding environments. If you enjoy solving complex robotics challenges using modern C++, ROS2 and real-world control systems, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing Developing modern C++ software for autonomous robotic systems Building and maintaining … ROS2-based robotic applications Working on motion planning, trajectory generation and robot control Integrating perception, sensor and vision systems Collaborating with software, electronics and mechanical engineering teams What We're Looking For Strong modern C++ experience Commercial ROS2 experience Robotics, automation or autonomous systems background Linux development experience ...

Senior Gen AI Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £700 per day
powered applications. The role would suit a strong software engineer with hands-on experience building cloud-native applications, embedding AI capabilities into production systems, and taking ownership across the full delivery lifecycle. Key responsibilities: * Design, build and maintain AI-enabled applications using enterprise GenAI services* Develop production-grade microservices … applications* Ensure applications meet non-functional requirements around security, scalability, resiliency, performance and cost Essential skills: * Strong software engineering background with experience delivering complex distributed systems* Proven experience building and deploying production-grade applications that embed AI capabilities* Strong Python experience* Experience with LangGraph, Strands and DeepEval* Strong ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions. Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles. Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing (TDD/… Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js), backend development (Java or Python), and building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications. Expertise in data engineering & platforms including SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, and integration of data science and analytics. Experience ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Temporary
Salary
£525 per day, Inc benefits
ingestion, transformation, serving layers, and user-facing applications/UI. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions. Architect and implement modern distributed systems and data platforms aligned to strategic architecture principles. Optimize solutions for cloud-native environments, focusing on more than just "lift-and-shift … Qualifications: Strong hands-on experience in front-end & application development (React.js/Next.js, backend development using Java or Python, building secure, scalable APIs and distributed applications). Proficiency in data engineering & platforms (SQL, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, data wrangling). Experience delivering cloud-native solutions ...

Senior ML Platform Engineer - Robotics

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £750 per day
archival processes* Containerise and orchestrate services to ensure reliable deployment across machines and lab environments* Partner with ML engineers on dataset building, ingestion pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, and high-throughput data workflows* Work with robotics engineers on ROS2 integration, robot data streams, deployment workflows, and hardware-adjacent platform tooling … Improve testing, CI, observability, reliability, and performance across concurrent and IO-heavy systems Essential Skills You must have: * Senior-level software engineering experience, ideally 5+ years* Strong production Python experience* Experience with typing, async/await, threading, multiprocessing, and concurrent workloads* FastAPI or another async Python web framework* Vanilla ...

Solution Architect (Azure Cloud)

Hiring Organisation
Expleo UK LTD
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Define, design, and govern the end-to-end technical architecture across cloud and on-premise systems, ensuring scalability, security, maintainability, and alignment with business and enterprise architecture objectives. The role is responsible for establishing Azure-based solution architectures, guiding delivery teams, and ensuring that technology decisions drive long-term … Design end-to-end solution architectures across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure within Microsoft Azure environments Define architectural patterns for cloud-native, hybrid, and distributed systems Develop high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD), ensuring clarity for delivery teams Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure ...

Senior Software Engineer - TypeScript / Next.Js / SQL

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£75,000
technology-led business is rebuilding and modernising the core system including billing, invoicing, reconciliation, integrations, operational workflows, reporting, customer tooling, and internal platforms. These systems sit at the heart of the organisation and directly influence revenue, operational efficiency, customer trust, and commercial decision-making. This role is suited … someone who enjoys solving complex operational and data problems, and who takes ownership of outcomes rather than simply delivering tickets. Strong engineering judgement, systems thinking, and an appreciation for correctness are essential in an environment where mistakes can have meaningful downstream impact. AI-assisted development is already central ...

Senior Developer

Hiring Organisation
Addition
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £90,000 per annum
rather than chasing hype. As their platform continues to scale, they're looking for a Senior Developer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, improving systems, and building software that stands up in production. The Good Bits: £70,000 - £90,000 Hybrid working Exposure to large-scale SaaS platforms Clear … progression opportunities A collaborative engineering culture that values learning and continuous improvement The chance to work on systems used by thousands of people every day A Typical Day in the Role: Building and improving APIs that support critical platform functionality Investigating production issues and tracing problems across distributed ...

Software Engineer III (Java / Spring)

Hiring Organisation
Elsevier
Location
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. Software Engineer III (Java/Spring) Are you passionate about building high‐performance backend systems? Do you thrive on solving complex engineering challenges with Java and Spring? About the team: Our team is dedicated to unlocking the rich knowledge … Software Engineer III to help design, build, and improve services that support document transformation and semantic enrichment workflows. They will work on systems that process content at scale, expose reliable APIs, and support event-driven integrations across the platform. This role is well-suited to someone who enjoys building ...

Test Engineer (SFIA 4)

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£300 - £360 per day
risks, issues, and areas for improvement Produce clear reports on testing activities, outcomes, and associated risks Automate data validation and application testing processes across distributed systems Investigate production issues using data analysis to identify root causes Work with orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow) to monitor workflows and troubleshoot … services, including: Monitoring and logging tools Storage and data services Compute and container services Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitLab) Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) Familiarity with Docker and containerised environments Data & Analytics Strong data analysis skills, including working with structured ...

Tech Lead

Hiring Organisation
Eligo Recruitment Ltd
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75000 - £85000/annum
technology platform. This is a strategic technical leadership role where you'll influence architecture, mentor engineering teams, and drive the development of high-scale systems processing significant advertising and customer data volumes across multiple digital channels. If you've built AdTech platforms, worked with advertising APIs, and enjoy solving … complex distributed systems challenges, we'd love to speak with you. The RoleAs a Principal Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams while remaining hands-on with architecture and critical development initiatives. You'll play a key role in evolving a platform that integrates deeply ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Digital Waffle
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £75,000 per annum
cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and data platform engineering. The Role You'll work across Azure cloud infrastructure and data platforms, helping to build scalable, secure systems and improve how data flows across the organisation. You'll also play a key role in improving deployment processes, system reliability, and overall platform … Experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms Experience with Databricks or modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Synapse, BigQuery) Strong understanding of data pipelines and distributed systems Focus on automation, scalability, and reliability Nice to Have Lakehouse or large-scale data platform experience Observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus) SaaS ...

Head of Test

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
testing strategies and tools Experience embedding quality into Agile/DevOps environments and CI/CD pipelines Deep understanding of quality engineering for complex distributed systems Experience with Microsoft Azure environments and cloud-native architectures Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and grow high-performing teams Strong stakeholder management ...

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Java / React )

Hiring Organisation
Elsevier
Location
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
technologies. Key responsibilities: As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for: Designing, developing, and deploying applications in a cloud-hosted distributed system to build our next-generation product Collaborating with business stakeholders to identify requirements and gather feedback in a fast-moving environment. Providing input into architectural decisions ...

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 ...

Software Security Research Intern

Hiring Organisation
HP
Location
City of Bristol, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
practical experience of cryptography libraries Experience in, or knowledge of, machine learning solution architectures including Large Language Models (LLMs) Strong software engineering skills Embedded Systems Experience in or knowledge of cloud computing (AWS/Azure) and distributed systems About HP At HP, you'll have a chance ...

Senior DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
stakeholders across the business to deliver a reliable, high-quality customer experience from end-to-end, from our corporate website to our critical business systems integration. The role is primarily focused on extending, automating, and improving our cloud infrastructure, but offers the opportunity to collaborate closely on application development … incidents and mature our observability, logging, and metrics-gathering tools to improve system reliability. DevSecOps: Ensure security by design, governance, and compliance across our systems, proactively monitoring vulnerabilities and embedding automated security testing directly into development workflows. CI/CD & Release Engineering: Drive continuous improvement and continuous delivery, ensuring ...

AI Agentic Engineer X 3

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£85,000
next-generation intelligent healthcare solutions. They are now looking for an number of AI Agentic Engineer to help design, build, and deploy autonomous AI systems that will directly support clinical and operational decision-making. This is a highly impactful role where youll be working at the intersection … software engineering, and healthcare innovation - developing agent-based systems that can reason, plan, and act within real-world medical workflows. Youll be joining a forward-thinking engineering team that is scaling rapidly, with a strong focus on responsible AI, performance, and real-world application. What youll be doing Youll ...

Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Uniting Ambition
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£85000 - £95000/annum
influencing technical teams Exposure to AI tools and technologies such as Claude and Gemini Strong stakeholder management and communication skills Knowledge of microservices, distributed systems and modern architectures Experience with CI/CD and modern engineering practices If you'd like to be part of a brand ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
RS Group
Location
North Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
years: Experience creating and maintaining Java based services Experience of designing, building and operating HTTP based services Experience of working with multiple microservices and distributed systems Experience working with eventual consistency Experience working with relational and non-relational databases Experience improving existing services and ways of working Cloud ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Elsevier
Location
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full Time
technologies Responsibilities As a Senior Java Software Engineer you will be responsible for: Designing, developing and deploying applications in a cloud-hosted distributed system to build our next-generation product Collaborating with business stakeholders to identify requirements and gather feedback in a fast-moving environment Providing input into architectural ...

Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Searchability
Location
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£40,000 - £80,000 per annum
Boot) Fast-Growing Global Technology Consultancy KEY POINTS Hybrid, 2 to 3 days a week in Welwyn Garden City Build high traffic, event driven systems Full ownership of your services, end to end, not handing off to ops Modern stack, Java and Spring Boot on Azure with Terraform … biggest brands in the world. For this role you would be building for one of the largest names in UK retail, on systems that run at a scale most product teams never see. This is an environment where engineers take genuine ownership of what they build, with a real ...

Founding Engineer - Fintech infrastructure, geospatial

Hiring Organisation
Richard Wheeler Associates
Location
North West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
build and scale the platform. A technically hands-on yet entrepreneurial role, youll help design the architecture, build integrations with telematics providers and payment systems, create their geospatial decision engine, and lay the foundation for a world-class engineering organization. This is a role for someone who enjoys building … major technical decisions. What Youll Work On: Design and build the core platform Integrate with vehicle telematics providers and OEM APIs Build geospatial systems that determine when vehicles enter and exit chargeable zones Develop payment orchestration and billing infrastructure Build fleet management and operational tooling Create scalable backend services ...