Front-Office Trading C# Developer Commodities
Description
Contract (Inside IR35)
London (hybrid) | 6 month contract
Posted Weds 4th Nov
CVs desired by Friday 6th Nov, 14:00
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.