1 to 25 of 30 Contract Distributed Systems Jobs in England

AI Native Systems Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500/day 500/day (Outside IR35)
Native Systems Engineer 6 Month Contract London (Hybrid) £500/day (Outside IR35) AI Native Systems Engineer needed for a 6 Month Rolling Contract based in London (Hybrid). Start ASAP ideally September 2026. Hybrid Working – 2-3 days/week remote (WFH) + 2-3 days/…/day (Outside IR35). Working with a global IT Consultancy supporting the client's transition towards delivery models utilising AI agents to streamline systems software + operations: AI Native Systems Engineer is a technical leadership role designing AI-enabled, complex cloud-native + data-intensive systems ...

Principal Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £600 per day + Inside IR-35
Remote Working | Occasional Travel to London We're looking for a Principal Developer to join a major engineering programme delivering large-scale, cloud-native systems within AWS. This is a hands-on technical leadership role suited to an experienced engineer who enjoys remaining close to the code while helping … decisions, technical governance and live service operations. What You'll Be Doing Leading the design and development of large-scale cloud-native applications. Delivering distributed, event-driven microservices-based solutions. Providing technical leadership and direction across multiple teams. Collaborating with architects, security specialists and senior stakeholders. Acting ...

Platform & Data Engineer - Financial Services Contract - TWE47236

Hiring Organisation
Twenty Recruitment Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Platform & Data Engineer for a 6-month contract. You will work across software engineering, data and platform technologies, helping design, build and improve systems that operate at scale. You will be responsible for: Designing and developing backend applications, services and data-driven platforms. Building and enhancing distributed systems … experience. Strong backend development experience in Java + Spring environments. Experience working with Python and/or the Microsoft technology ecosystem. Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable application design. Experience designing modular applications, services or microservice-based architectures. Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, design patterns ...

Software Engineer - Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£70 - £72 per hour
availability streams, real-time messaging, webhooks, and complex data translations-ensuring seamless communication between external platforms and internal microservices. Responsibilities Architect, deploy, and manage distributed backend microservices powering critical third-party integrations. Create reliable, event-driven data flows to process partner product updates, availability matrices, and transactional notifications. Apply … strong distributed systems practices (fault tolerance, retries, rate-limiting, and idempotency) while leveraging metrics and tracing to maintain system health. Own the Lifecycle: Take end-to-end technical ownership-from refining specs and coding to testing, safe releases, and live production monitoring. Essential Proven experience engineering high-scale ...

Senior Architect Private Cloud

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day Inside IR35 via Umbrella
with deep hands-on expertise in at least two of the following: Kubernetes/Containers , Kafka/Event Streaming , or VMware/Virtualization . Distributed Systems: Proven background in designing secure, fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed systems within regulated enterprise environments. DevOps & IaC: Practical experience with ...

Card Solutions Architects - Contract role - Sheffield - Immediate

Hiring Organisation
StrategicsIQ Ltd
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
drive architecture and design across a large-scale commercial cards ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Own and deliver end-to-end solution architecture for card-based systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and platform roadmaps Translate business requirements (BRDs) into solution designs , decomposing into MVPs, epics, and detailed technical stories … Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure architectures across distributed systems Define integration patterns (REST APIs, messaging, event-driven architecture) across internal platforms and external partners Provide hands-on architectural leadership to engineering teams, ensuring design consistency and adherence to standards Govern solutions through architecture review boards , ensuring ...

Senior AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
MarkIT Placements
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £700 to £900 per day
experience IR35: Outside IR35 Start Date: Immediate About the Role We are working with a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing advanced AI systems for organisations operating in complex, high-stakes environments. The business is looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to take genuine technical ownership … production-grade agentic AI systems. This is a builder's role rather than an integration role . You will design and implement sophisticated AI systems from the ground up, make architecture-level decisions, write production-quality software and own features through to deployment. The focus is on turning rapidly ...

GCP Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Teksystems
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400/day
based trading and post-trade platforms. You will work within the Reference Data platform team, responsible for a critical integration layer that connects multiple systems across the trading ecosystem. The position centres on modernising platform architecture, improving scalability, and enabling robust data integration across domains such as Synthetic Trading … environments. Enable and support microservices architecture deployment using containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes/EKS. Implement scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems that align with enterprise architecture standards. Collaborate closely with application developers, traders, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance cloud solutions. ...

Application Developer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£420 - £473/day
/CD pipelines. Implement automated testing for IAM policies and API behaviour. 5. Support, Troubleshooting & Collaboration Troubleshoot identity, access, and API workflow issues across distributed systems. Provide technical guidance to engineering teams on secure API design, IAM best practices, and identity workflows. Work with security teams during audits, compliance ...

Senior Java Architect - Payments

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
modern engineering practices Architect payment solutions supporting real-time payments, cross-border transactions, settlement, reconciliation, and regulatory requirements Design integration patterns across enterprise systems, third-party providers, and banking platforms Drive iterative delivery, stakeholder engagement, demonstrations, and technical progress reporting Collaborate with Business, Integration, Data, and DevOps Architects … Financial Services, or other highly regulated environments Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise-scale backend development Strong knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems Experience designing event-driven solutions using Kafka or similar messaging technologies Strong understanding of API-first architecture, REST services, and enterprise integration ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Response Informatics
Location
South East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Python, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React, Angular, and modern web technologies. Deep experience in API development, Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, Enterprise Integration, and Distributed Systems design. Cloud, Platform Engineering & Infrastructure Expertise in Azure, AWS, and GCP with strong knowledge of multi-cloud, cloud-native, serverless, containerized ...

Back End Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
part of a multi-year programme building a new enterprise knowledge platform from scratch, designed to connect AI services and applications securely with enterprise systems, tools, and data. This is a genuine greenfield opportunity where you'll help shape the architecture and build scalable, resilient services supporting AI agent … Architecture and Security teams What we're looking for Strong backend engineering experience with Java, Python, Node.js or similar Experience with APIs, microservices and distributed systems Understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging Experience with cloud, containers and Kubernetes/OpenShift Knowledge of enterprise security, authentication and authorisation ...

Test Automation Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Rullion Ltd
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
environment. Desirable Experience Previous experience working within the banking or financial services sector . Knowledge and experience of the payments landscape , including payment-related systems and processes. Experience working with distributed systems, APIs and modern web applications. Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines. ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £800/day
headless, API-first and composable commerce MACH Architecture Strong practical experience with: Microservices API-first design Cloud-native SaaS Headless architecture Event-driven and distributed systems Integration resilience and failure handling TypeScript/Node.js Strong hands-on TypeScript and Node.js development Ability to read, debug, review and write …/cart and checkout Customer journeys Promotions Payments Order management Experience integrating commerce platforms with CMS, PIM, payment, search, promotions, customer and order management systems is highly desirable. DevOps/SRE/Operational Engineering Strong experience across: CI/CD and deployment automation Infrastructure and configuration as code Automated ...

Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
additional experience in the following areas would be advantageous: Familiarity with DynamoDB. Knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging patterns. Experience developing microservices and distributed systems. Exposure to CRM platforms or customer service applications. Candidate Profile: Our client is looking for engineers who are: Product-minded, focused on delivering ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£65 - £73 per hour
backend services that connect the platform to third-party attraction providers. You will focus on scaling partner integrations, data ingestion, and building highly resilient distributed systems. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain cloud-native backend services, utilizing event-driven patterns where appropriate. Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle … Solid understanding of Kafka or comparable event-streaming/messaging technologies. Extensive experience designing and integrating HTTP APIs with external systems. Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (e.g., idempotency, retries, rate limiting) and CI/CD pipelines. Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative, communicative approach. Nice ...

Full Stack Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
IntaPeople
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £570/day
proven track record of building backend services and APIs Experience delivering solutions across both backend and frontend technologies, with an understanding of how systems fit together end-to-end A quality-first approach to software engineering, including automated testing, code reviews and maintainable design principles Strong communication and collaboration … frontend technologies such as React, Angular or Vue Experience working with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices Exposure to distributed systems, microservices or event-driven architectures Experience mentoring, coaching or supporting the development of other engineers Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools ...

JAVA Roles

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
/CD, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. Essential Skills Java 8+ Spring Boot/Spring Framework/Hibernate RESTful APIs and HTTPS Microservices and distributed systems Cloud development Unit and automated testing Agile/Scrum CI/CD and Git Jira or similar UML/SysML and Enterprise ...

Fidessa Developer

Hiring Organisation
Apex Systems US
Location
St Paul's, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£70 - £75/hour
external market and trading data feeds, including RTD solutions. Collaborate with technology teams, project managers and business stakeholders on strategic initiatives. Support production trading systems and contribute to DevOps and automation efforts. Required Experience Candidates must demonstrate: Hands-on Fidessa development experience within OMS and/or EMS environments. … routing logic, custom screens and business rules. Strong TCL development experience. Experience with Fidessa upgrades in customised environments. Linux/Unix experience. Equities trading systems and order management knowledge. Ability to discuss complex OMS workflow challenges they have personally solved. Technical Skills Experience with a broad range of Fidessa ...

Senior Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Teksystems
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Experience * Expert-level knowledge of Java (version 21) and the Spring Boot framework (version 3.6+). * Proven Experience designing, building, and maintaining complex distributed systems and microservices architectures. * Strong hands-on Experience with cloud platforms, specifically AWS, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes (EKS). * A solid understanding … agentic AI, code generation tools, or a strong personal interest and side projects in this area. * Experience in the financial services industry, particularly with systems related to debit/credit cards, is highly desirable. Skills Java springbooth AI aws Help lay the foundations for "spec-based development" and agentic ...

Technical Delivery Manager

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £487/day
Stories Acceptance Criteria Definition of Ready (DoR) Definition of Done (DoD) Sprint Planning and Retrospectives Proven experience managing cross-functional agile teams operating within distributed and global delivery models. Strong understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability … organizational change and innovation adoption at scale. Experience collaborating with outsourced vendors and external development partners. Understanding of scalable architecture patterns, client-server applications, distributed systems, and backend service design. Demonstrated experience mentoring engineering teams and process improvement functions. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from ...

Enterprise Architect - Greenfield Banking Platform

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
architectural vision is actually executed Cloud and modern architecture Design and promote cloud-native, scalable, resilient and secure solutions on AWS Champion event-driven, distributed and microservices-based architecture Drive adoption of modern engineering practice including platform engineering, DevSecOps, API-first design and automation Ensure architectural decisions support resilience … services Track record of delivering large-scale technology transformation programmes Deep domain expertise in at least one of: banking platforms, payments, FX and treasury systems, or high-volume transaction processing Strong understanding of both legacy and modern technology estates Significant experience designing event-driven architectures, distributed systems ...

Performance Test Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Brio Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£475/day
with monitoring and observability tools including: Splunk AppDynamics Grafana AWS CloudWatch Dynatrace Experience using Jenkins , GitHub , Jira and Confluence . Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems and modern cloud architectures. Experience working within Agile delivery teams. Desirable Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge ...

Technical Delivery Manager

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450/day Insde IR35
practices Experience driving organisational change and innovation initiatives Experience partnering with third-party vendors and external delivery teams Understanding of scalable architecture patterns, distributed systems, and backend service design What you'll get in return £450 per day Long-term contract until December 2026 Hybrid working arrangement ...

Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Line Up Aviation
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£41.10/hour
What you'll be doing: The developer shall join a 7-member scrum team as part of a wider program to deliver a management systems for a new Satellite. The developer shall contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle and thus have solid experience in design (particularly … Developing in Spring with Hibernate Good Knowledge of developing REST within HTTPS Experience of developing within a microservice architecture Web Services using RESTful APIs Distributed systems Knowledge and use of software design patterns Agile Development Processes CI/CD delivery techniques Source code management ...