1 to 25 of 32 Contract Distributed Systems Jobs in England

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 ...

Senior Software Engineer - Kafka/Spark

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
build high-performance, real-time data platforms supporting regulatory compliance across global operations. This is a fully engineering-led role focused on streaming, distributed systems, and low-latency processing , ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges at scale. What You'll Do Design and build Kafka … based streaming pipelines and Spark processing jobs Develop low-latency, high throughput systems handling large-scale datasets Create data matching and reconciliation solutions across multiple sources Work on event-driven architectures with a focus on performance, accuracy, and reliability Contribute to production grade systems in a highly regulated ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Meritus
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£750 - £850/day
maintainable systems. You will work closely with engineering and delivery teams to establish architectural standards, improve integration patterns, and support the implementation of modern distributed technologies across complex environments. This role would suit an experienced architect with strong experience in enterprise architecture, microservices, messaging systems, API strategy, distributed … scalable architectural solutions supporting long-term operational resilience, maintainability, and adaptability. Evaluate the use of message bus technologies and event-driven architecture patterns across distributed systems. Analyse and document complex system-wide data flows, including real-time data, metadata, configuration data, and processed experimental data. Assess the suitability ...

Java Software Engineer - Microservices Payments Enterprise-Scale Systems

Hiring Organisation
Xcede
Location
Dorset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Java Software Engineer - Microservices | Payments | Enterprise-Scale Systems Were looking for an experienced Senior Java Developer to join a high-performing engineering team delivering large-scale, business-critical platforms in a complex enterprise environment. This role is suited to someone who enjoys solving real business problems through strong engineering … deliver resilient, high-quality solutions. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and optimise secure, scalable Java-based applications Build and support high-availability microservices and distributed systems Translate business requirements into technical solutions and engineering designs Perform code reviews, debugging, testing, and production issue resolution Collaborate across Agile teams ...

RabbitMQ Messaging Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Talent Smart Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 650 Daily
security teams to ensure messaging services are resilient, scalable, and aligned to best practice. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and optimise RabbitMQ messaging solutions across distributed systems Configure and manage RabbitMQ clusters, exchanges, queues, bindings, and policies Troubleshoot complex messaging issues including performance bottlenecks, message loss, and latency Implement … recovery strategies for RabbitMQ environments Develop automation scripts and tooling using PowerShell and Python to support deployment, monitoring, and maintenance Integrate RabbitMQ with enterprise systems, APIs, and microservices architectures Monitor system health, capacity, and performance, implementing proactive improvements Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code approaches ...

Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

Hiring Organisation
IntaPeople
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 400 - 495 Daily
design, build, and maintain microservices-based applications and data engineering pipelines. This role requires strong hands-on development experience across Java services, backend systems, and data processing platforms, with a focus on building scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions. The role involves close collaboration with data engineers, QA, product … Redshift, BigQuery, Spark). Engineering Practices & Tooling Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated build and deployment processes. Strong experience with version control systems (Git). Experience developing in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP). Understanding of distributed systems, service communication patterns, and fault tolerance. ...

Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

Hiring Organisation
IntaPeople
Location
Remote, Sutton South, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £495/day
design, build, and maintain microservices-based applications and data engineering pipelines. This role requires strong hands-on development experience across Java services, backend systems, and data processing platforms, with a focus on building scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions. The role involves close collaboration with data engineers, QA, product … Redshift, BigQuery, Spark). Engineering Practices & Tooling Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated build and deployment processes. Strong experience with version control systems (Git). Experience developing in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP). Understanding of distributed systems, service communication patterns, and fault tolerance. ...

Lead Java Tech Role- 3 month Contract

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£475 - £525 per day
performance digital products used at scale. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and ensure backend systems are robust, secure, and future-ready. What you’ll be doing Lead backend architecture – Define and evolve scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems …/CD – Enhance pipelines, build processes, and operational workflows Drive continuous improvement – Reduce technical debt and introduce modern backend approaches Support compliance – Ensure systems align with standards such as ISO27001 and PCI What we’re looking for Strong backend engineering experience with Java (11+) & Spring Boot Event-driven architecture ...

Enterprise Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Vallum Associates
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
data platforms and technologies including Data Lakes, Lakehouse, ETL/ELT, Kafka, and Spark. Expertise in microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, integration patterns, and distributed systems design. Good understanding of data governance, cloud security, compliance frameworks, and enterprise risk management. Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure ...

Fullstack AI Developer (Java/Python) - Investment Bank

Hiring Organisation
Robert Walters
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £800 per day
doing Building and enhancing cloud-native applications using Java and/or Python Developing modern React front-end solutions Designing scalable systems on AWS Delivering AI-powered features using LLMs, semantic search, and RAG architectures Driving engineering best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, testing, and system reliability Collaborating … with Java and/or Python Proven expertise with AWS cloud technologies Full stack engineering capability, ideally including React Experience building secure, production-grade distributed systems Strong understanding of modern SDLC, CI/CD, and cloud-native development Exposure to AI/ML solutions, particularly LLMs, OpenAI/ ...

Booking and Messaging Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £625/day
like 60East AMPS , Kafka, or RabbitMQ. Reactive & Agile: Experience with Functional Reactive Programming (RxJava/Flow API) within an Agile/Scrum setup. Data & Systems: Proficiency in Spring, SQL (Sybase/PostgreSQL), and distributed systems (Zookeeper). Performance: Skilled in low-latency communication and debugging complex distributed ...

Telemetry and Observability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £500 per day
join the team. This is a high-impact role focused on scalable telemetry pipelines, monitoring, alerting, reliability engineering, and embedding observability across complex distributed systems and Kubernetes environments. Key experience needed: * Observability/SRE/Platform Engineering background * OpenTelemetry , Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, Loki, or Jaeger * Kubernetes, microservices ...

Senior Software Engineer - Geospatial Data (Contract)

Hiring Organisation
Talent Locker
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
would be highly beneficial. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable software applications and services Work with large-scale geospatial and spatial datasets within distributed systems and processing pipelines Develop and optimise solutions using technologies such as PostGIS, ArcGIS, and related geospatial tooling Build and maintain APIs, backend … with geospatial data, spatial databases, or mapping platforms Strong backend development experience using languages such as Python, Java, C++, or similar Experience developing scalable systems, APIs, and data services Knowledge of geospatial technologies such as PostGIS, ArcGIS, GDAL, GeoServer, or similar Experience working with cloud platforms and modern software ...

Senior SRE | Up to £525/day | ACTIVE SC REQUIRED

Hiring Organisation
Futureheads
Location
England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 525 Daily
balancers Reverse proxies & message queues Monitoring & observability tooling SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, capacity planning) Git & CI/CD pipelines Node.js, Java & Kotlin Large-scale distributed systems & production support Are you a Senior SRE immediately available to start your next contract with Active SCt? Apply within. Senior ...

Full Stack Engineer (Data)

Hiring Organisation
REAL Technical Solutions
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 per day Inside IR35
Financial services/capital markets experience . Knowledge of trade lifecycle processing . ETL and data warehouse experience . Docker and Kubernetes exposure . Distributed systems experience (Kafka, microservices, event streaming) . Full Stack Engineer (Data) Based in the City of London (2 days in the office)/ ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
Data Careers
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£800 - £850 per day
provide hands-on architectural guidance to development teams. This role would suit a Technical Architect with strong experience across service-oriented architecture, Java-based systems, APIs, data flows, integration patterns, non-functional requirements and technical design documentation. You will need to be comfortable working closely with engineering teams, understanding … complex existing systems, and turning architectural ambiguity into clear, actionable recommendations. Key responsibilities Review and assess the existing high-level architecture, including key components, services, interfaces and deployment approach. Analyse the current service-oriented architecture and identify strengths, gaps, risks and areas of emerging technical debt. Assess alignment with ...

Infrastructure/Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£480 - £655 per day
utilisation (CPU, memory, workload placement) Tune JVM-based services to enhance performance and efficiency Build automation to roll out optimisation changes safely across production systems Work closely with data to analyse usage patterns and drive cost-efficiency decisions Contribute to reliability practices, including safe deployments and incident response Tech … production environments Exposure to cloud cost optimisation/FinOps practices Understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and safe rollout strategies Experience working in large-scale distributed systems If you are interested then apply with a copy of your CV or send your CV to khushboo.pandey @randstad .co .uk Randstad ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £625 per day
mentoring leads, and unblocking delivery. Essential Skills & Experience Proven Principal-level experience (80% Architecture/design - 20% Coding) Strong in AWS, TypeScript, event-driven systems Experience with high-scale distributed systems Someone collaborative, hands-on, and pragmatic Desirable Salesforce Experience as this is their main CRM system ...

Golang Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Mpower Plus UK Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
knowledge considered an advantage Proven expertise in designing and operating microservices-based architectures , ideally within fintech or payments environments Solid understanding of concurrent and distributed systems , including handling high-throughput transaction processing Experience working with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ Hands ...

Senior FullStack Developer

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £650/day
with DevSecOps to implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines , ensuring robust automated testing, deployment, and monitoring. Architect and contribute to event-driven and distributed system designs using technologies such as Kafka, Event Hub, or similar. Drive engineering best practices: code reviews, unit/integration testing, performance tuning, documentation … microservices-based development. Experience in transforming monolithic applications into composable microservices, or modular monoliths is a plus. Python (pyspark): Some hands-on experience with distributed data processing, data pipelines, and analytic transformations. Power BI: Some experience developing dashboards, data models, DAX calculations, and enterprise-grade BI solutions. Strong understanding ...

Senior FullStack Developer

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £650 per day
with DevSecOps to implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines , ensuring robust automated testing, deployment, and monitoring. Architect and contribute to event-driven and distributed system designs using technologies such as Kafka, Event Hub, or similar. Drive engineering best practices: code reviews, unit/integration testing, performance tuning, documentation … microservices-based development. Experience in transforming monolithic applications into composable microservices, or modular monoliths is a plus. Python (pyspark): Some hands-on experience with distributed data processing, data pipelines, and analytic transformations. Power BI: Some experience developing dashboards, data models, DAX calculations, and enterprise-grade BI solutions. Strong understanding ...

Senior ML Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
North London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£650 - £750 per day
take ownership of a critical ML platform used day to day by data, machine learning, and robotics engineers. You will work on real production systems that sit at the heart of data capture, dataset creation, and model training, with a clear focus on building reliable, well engineered tooling that … Containerise and orchestrate services to ensure consistent deployment across machines and lab environments. Your Skills & Experience * Strong experience owning and evolving production grade software systems end to end. * Advanced Python skills, including async programming, concurrency, and working with IO heavy workloads. * Experience building and maintaining web backends with FastAPI ...

Test Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Brio Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 400 Daily
Selenium Write and maintain test code in TypeScript and/or Java to a high standard Plan and execute integration testing across complex, distributed system components Embed automated testing within CI/CD pipelines, ensuring quality gates are in place throughout the deployment process Develop and execute test strategies … Java for test development Solid experience with CI/CD tooling and integrating automated tests into deployment pipelines Proven integration testing experience across complex, distributed systems Comfortable working in an Agile delivery environment alongside cross-functional teams Strong attention to detail with clear written and verbal communication skills ...

Test Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Brio Digital
Location
London, Baker Street, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400/day
Selenium Write and maintain test code in TypeScript and/or Java to a high standard Plan and execute integration testing across complex, distributed system components Embed automated testing within CI/CD pipelines, ensuring quality gates are in place throughout the deployment process Develop and execute test strategies … Java for test development Solid experience with CI/CD tooling and integrating automated tests into deployment pipelines Proven integration testing experience across complex, distributed systems Comfortable working in an Agile delivery environment alongside cross-functional teams Strong attention to detail with clear written and verbal communication skills ...

Technical Architect - BPSS

Hiring Organisation
IO Associates
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£800 - £850 per day
scalable and resilient architectural improvements. Experience Required Proven experience working as a Technical Architect within complex enterprise environments Strong background in service-oriented and distributed system architecture Experience designing scalable, resilient, and maintainable platforms Strong understanding of API design and service communication protocols Experience with messaging technologies and event ...