Front-Office Trading C# Developer (Commodities)

Meraki Talent are supporting a multinational financial services organisation in their commodity markets operations. We are looking for a Front-Office Trading C# Developer who has strong grounding in the front-office, prior exposure to one or more asset classes (Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities) and secure technical knowledge of C#, SQL and service-based architectures.

You’ll contribute to a broad portfolio of initiatives including:

• Real-time pricing and valuation services
• Risk and exposure analytics
• Regulatory and reporting platforms
• Post-trade processing and workflow automation
• Platform modernisation, scalability and resiliency improvements
• Distributed service architecture and performance optimisation

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and developing key components of a large-scale commodities trading platform
• Building high-performance distributed services in C#/.NET
• Partnering with traders, risk managers and business stakeholders to deliver new functionality
• Enhancing platform scalability, resilience and operational supportability
• Driving engineering best practices across testing, code review, release management and architecture
• Investigating and solving complex technical and business problems in a fast-paced trading environment

Technology Stack

• C# / .NET
• SQL Server
• REST and gRPC services
• Event-driven and messaging architectures
• Multithreaded and asynchronous processing
• Redis, Consul, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy and related platform tooling

If you’re an experienced C# Developer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and want direct exposure to front-office trading and risk functions, this role is for you. Whether your background is in commodities, other asset classes, or another data-intensive, distributed systems environment, you’ll be comfortable building robust, high-performance applications and collaborating with stakeholders. This role would particularly suit someone who enjoys the intersection of: Financial Markets + C# Engineering + Distributed Systems and wants to see their work influence trading decisions, risk management and the success of a major commodities business.