1 to 25 of 52 Distributed Systems Jobs in the East of England

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Saxon
Location
Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Lead Engineer – Distributed Systems/DeFi Infrastructure Remote | Up to $150k (paid in stablecoins) Saxon is working with one of our portfolio companies to hire a Lead Engineer to help build next-generation on-chain financial infrastructure. This is not a typical Web3 role. You'll be architecting … core financial systems including vault mechanics, reward engines, token supply logic, and distributed backend infrastructure supporting a blockchain-native product. We're looking for someone who thinks in systems and architecture, not just features. What You'll Work On • Designing distributed backend systems • Building reward ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Saxon
Location
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Lead Engineer – Distributed Systems/DeFi Infrastructure Remote | Up to $150k (paid in stablecoins) Saxon is working with one of our portfolio companies to hire a Lead Engineer to help build next-generation on-chain financial infrastructure. This is not a typical Web3 role. You'll be architecting … core financial systems including vault mechanics, reward engines, token supply logic, and distributed backend infrastructure supporting a blockchain-native product. We're looking for someone who thinks in systems and architecture, not just features. What You'll Work On • Designing distributed backend systems • Building reward ...

Lead Architect

Hiring Organisation
Accelerant
Location
Colchester, Essex, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
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 ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Chelmsford, Essex, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

Senior Backend Developer (.NET | AI-First SaaS Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Keepnet
Location
Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
with growing global momentum, helping organisations manage human cyber risk at scale. With Agentic AI live in production, Keepnet runs autonomous systems that plan, build, and operate security awareness and human risk workflows, supported by strong guardrails and observability. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer who wants … build production-grade backend services that power these systems, working in a multinational, AI-first engineering team where quality, ownership, and long-term thinking matter. What You'll Do Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Keepnet's Human Risk Management platform. Build clean, modular APIs that integrate ...

LLM Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
microTECH Global LTD
Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
building software tools and agentic applications that leverage our AI hardware and large language models. We need software engineers who can design scalable backend systems and integrate advanced LLM capabilities. Qualifications Ability to collaborate effectively within a team and work on-site Strong problem-solving skills and attention … Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field Experience in LLM-related software development is a plus Key responsibilities Design, build and deploy distributed systems and AI agents that leverage LLMs and retrieval‐augmented generation (RAG) to provide contextual, reasoning‐based capabilities. Develop cloud‐native microservices ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SearchWorks
Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
continue building the product. This is a product engineering role (not consultancy) What you'll be doing Architecting the backbone of revolutionary AI systems Create backend systems that deliver sub second response times Help to guide and mentor an extremely strong team of engineers Help to create robust … scalable platforms to process commercial claims faster than every before. What they're looking for Expert Python skills with proven experience building high performing systems 8+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with some insights into distributed systems Some frontend experience Some systems architecture exposure Performance ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SearchWorks
Location
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
continue building the product. This is a product engineering role (not consultancy) What you'll be doing Architecting the backbone of revolutionary AI systems Create backend systems that deliver sub second response times Help to guide and mentor an extremely strong team of engineers Help to create robust … scalable platforms to process commercial claims faster than every before. What they're looking for Expert Python skills with proven experience building high performing systems 8+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with some insights into distributed systems Some frontend experience Some systems architecture exposure Performance ...

Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SearchWorks
Location
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
continue building the product. This is a product engineering role (not consultancy) What you'll be doing Architecting the backbone of revolutionary AI systems Create backend systems that deliver sub second response times Help to guide and mentor an extremely strong team of engineers Help to create robust … scalable platforms to process commercial claims faster than every before. What they're looking for Expert Python skills with proven experience building high performing systems 8+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with some insights into distributed systems Some frontend experience Some systems architecture exposure Performance ...

Senior Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Couch Heroes
Location
Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
dies on the quality of its networking layer. We need a Senior Network Engineer who can build the server infrastructure, networking architecture, and online systems that allow thousands of players to share a seamless, responsive world. You will report to the CTO and work closely with gameplay engineers, backend … developers, and DevOps to design and implement the server architecture, replication systems, and online services that underpin the entire game experience. We are in early production. The studio has been running for three years, and server architecture, zone streaming, player session management, and replication models are still being designed. ...

Senior Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Couch Heroes
Location
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
dies on the quality of its networking layer. We need a Senior Network Engineer who can build the server infrastructure, networking architecture, and online systems that allow thousands of players to share a seamless, responsive world. You will report to the CTO and work closely with gameplay engineers, backend … developers, and DevOps to design and implement the server architecture, replication systems, and online services that underpin the entire game experience. We are in early production. The studio has been running for three years, and server architecture, zone streaming, player session management, and replication models are still being designed. ...

DeFi Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
rollup execution Requirements: • Advanced degree in a quantitative field • 2+ years strong Rust and Solidity • Experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or onchain systems • Strong distributed systems knowledge • Comfortable across Linux, AWS, Docker, Git High ownership. Close collaboration with founders. Real impact on live DeFi infrastructure. ...

DeFi Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
rollup execution Requirements: • Advanced degree in a quantitative field • 2+ years strong Rust and Solidity • Experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or onchain systems • Strong distributed systems knowledge • Comfortable across Linux, AWS, Docker, Git High ownership. Close collaboration with founders. Real impact on live DeFi infrastructure. ...

DeFi Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
rollup execution Requirements: • Advanced degree in a quantitative field • 2+ years strong Rust and Solidity • Experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or onchain systems • Strong distributed systems knowledge • Comfortable across Linux, AWS, Docker, Git High ownership. Close collaboration with founders. Real impact on live DeFi infrastructure. ...

DeFi Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
rollup execution Requirements: • Advanced degree in a quantitative field • 2+ years strong Rust and Solidity • Experience building low-latency, high-throughput trading or onchain systems • Strong distributed systems knowledge • Comfortable across Linux, AWS, Docker, Git High ownership. Close collaboration with founders. Real impact on live DeFi infrastructure. ...

Scala Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Barking, Essex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Barking, Essex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Cloud Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Developer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Software Engineer (Scala)

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Barking, Essex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Scala Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Acton, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...

Backend Software Engineer (Scala)

Hiring Organisation
Sky
Location
Barking, Essex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
here at Sky. What you'll do Design and implement scalable APIs and backend services, primarily in Scala, to integrate ML models into production systems and deliver personalised experiences. Real time data processing and gRPC microservices (Typelevel stack). Take end-to-end ownership of services, from development … skills with experience in Scala, ideally the typelevel stack (bonus if you have exposure to Golang and Python). Interest in machine learning, personalisation systems and cloud technology - even if you haven't worked extensively in ML before. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade APIs ...