Software Engineer in City of London, London
- Location: City of London, London
- Salary: Negotiable EUR / Year
- Job category: Software Engineering
- Job type: Contract
- Posted: 26 August 2026
- Application ends: 2026-12-31
Software Engineer – Distributed Systems
Contract Inside IR35| Financial Services | London based (3 days onsite in London)
We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join the team responsible for the continued development, scaling and operation of a high-performance computing (HPC) platform.
You’ll play a key role in designing and building software that supports large-scale distributed workloads, helping evolve the platform as it expands into hybrid cloud environments while improving reliability, scalability and operational efficiency.
What you’ll be doing
* Design, develop and maintain software for a high-performance computing platform.
*Build new platform capabilities to support large-scale distributed workloads.
*Extend the platform into AWS, enabling hybrid cloud and on-premise environments.
*Improve platform scalability to support up to one million concurrent tasks.
*Develop tooling to simplify platform management, deployment and operational processes.
*Enhance deployment automation, logging, monitoring and access controls.
*Deliver well-tested, production-ready software following engineering best practices.
*Collaborate closely with engineers through technical design discussions, code reviews and Agile delivery.
Skills & Experience
*Commercial software engineering experience using Go (preferred), or strong experience with Rust or C++.
*Experience designing or building distributed systems.
*Strong understanding of concurrency, scalability and performance optimisation.
*Experience developing production-grade backend software.
*Experience with AWS and cloud-native applications.
*Experience with Python is beneficial.
*Familiarity with Linux environments and modern software engineering practices.
This is an excellent opportunity for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems and building highly scalable, production-grade systems
