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# Backend Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

- **Company:** gb
Client Server
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Enterprise Messaging Systems, Node.Js, Performance Tuning, RabbitMQ, Concurrency, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Video Streaming, Stream Processing
- **Published:** September 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/backend-software-engineer/client-server-job107978712

## About the Role

* You have strong backend development experience with Go, Node.js or another modern server-side language
 * You have experience building or operating distributed systems, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures or streaming technologies
 * You understand scalability, concurrency, performance optimisation and fault tolerant system design
 * You enjoy solving complex technical challenges and delivering high quality, production ready software
 * You're comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced engineering environment
 * You embrace modern AI development tools while maintaining a strong focus on engineering quality
 * Experience with Pub/Sub platforms, Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, streaming systems, developer platforms or cloud infrastructure would be highly advantageous

## Description

Are you an experienced Backend Software Engineer who enjoys building distributed systems, real-time infrastructure and solving complex scalability challenges?

You could be progressing your career at a high growth technology company whose messaging platform powers millions of real-time interactions for developers and businesses worldwide.

Your role:

As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll join the team responsible for the core messaging platform that underpins the company's real-time infrastructure. Working on highly scalable distributed systems, you'll design and build new platform capabilities, improve performance and reliability and solve complex engineering problems at scale.

You'll contribute across low latency messaging, Pub/Sub services, state synchronisation and next generation AI communication infrastructure, delivering production grade software used by developers around the globe.

Working in an AI first engineering environment, you'll leverage modern AI tools to accelerate development while retaining full ownership of architecture, code quality and technical decision-making.


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