Fintech · Payments · AI · Technology
You shouldn't have to explain acquiring to your recruiter.
We find engineers, operators and leaders for companies building financial technology.
Currently searching: Payments Engineer, MLRO, LLM Engineer, Head of Payments, Fintech CTO.
Payments
Engineers and leaders who have actually moved money.
- Payments Engineer
- Financial Infrastructure Engineer
- Banking Integration Engineer
- Head of Payments
- Payment Product Manager
- Card Issuing Specialist
- Acquiring Specialist
- Payment Operations Manager
- Settlement Specialist
- Reconciliation Specialist
- Payment Partnerships Manager
- Treasury Manager
Fintech
Talent for regulated financial products, and the infrastructure under them.
- Head of Product — Fintech
- Fintech Engineering Manager
- Credit Risk Manager
- Lending Product Manager
- Treasury Manager
- Banking Partnerships Lead
- Regulatory Reporting Specialist
- Fintech CTO
- Chief Operating Officer
AI & Data
People who have put models into production, not just notebooks.
- AI Engineer
- ML Engineer
- LLM Engineer
- Applied AI Engineer
- Data Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Analytics Engineer
- AI Product Manager
- Head of AI
Engineering
Backend, platform, cloud, SRE and security — where correctness has consequences.
- Backend Engineer
- Full Stack Engineer
- Platform Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Cloud Architect
- Security Engineer
- Engineering Manager
- VP Engineering
- CTO
Risk & Compliance
MLROs and financial crime specialists, including regulator-approved appointments.
- MLRO
- Deputy MLRO
- Head of Compliance
- Compliance Officer
- AML Specialist
- KYC / KYB Specialist
- Transaction Monitoring Analyst
- Sanctions Specialist
- Fraud Specialist
- Risk Manager
- Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Executive
Leadership appointments, handled confidentially and research-led.
- CTO
- CPO
- COO
- CRO
- VP Engineering
- Head of Payments
- Head of Compliance
- Head of Product
- Country Manager
- Regional Director
- Managing Director
- Partnerships Director
We know the work
Most recruiters screen on keywords.
We screen on the lifecycle.
- Issuing
- Authorisation
- Capture
- Clearing
- Ledger
- Settlement
- Reconciliation
We screen against every stage. Most candidates can describe two or three.
- Licence
- Banking partner
- Safeguarding
- Product
- Risk controls
- Launch
- Scale
Where a company sits on this line decides which hire actually unblocks it.
- Data
- Features
- Training
- Evaluation
- Serving
- Monitoring
- Governance
Most AI briefs describe training. Most AI failures happen after serving.
- Idempotency
- Ordering
- Retries
- Replay
- Audit trail
- Recovery
We interview against these instead of running an algorithm loop.
- Risk assessment
- Onboarding
- Screening
- Monitoring
- Alerts
- Investigation
- SAR
The constraint is almost never tooling. It is analyst capacity and tuning.
- Mandate
- Market map
- Approach
- Assessment
- Shortlist
- Referencing
- Offer
You see the research, not just the outcome.
People we're speaking to
The network is being built
We publish anonymised profiles only with a candidate's explicit consent. Nothing here is invented, so it stays empty until real people have opted in.
How it works
Brief
Tell us who changes your business. Thirty minutes, not a form.
Search
We map the market and approach people directly. You see the map.
Screen
We speak to the people worth meeting, against the lifecycle above.
Hire
You choose. We handle counter-offers, notice and approvals.
Market intelligence
Search backed by our own data.
Every search generates signal — who replied, what they earn, how long notice ran. We keep it, anonymised, and it compounds.
Captured on every search
Talent availability
Approach-to-response rate per role and market
Hiring demand
Live mandates and enquiries per role
Compensation median
Offers made and accepted, not advertised ranges
Notice period
Confirmed notice on placed candidates
Time to shortlist
Brief accepted to shortlist delivered
Offer acceptance
Offers accepted / offers made
Common technologies
Normalised skills across screened candidates
Published once large enough to be honest. We won't estimate.
Most of our work is confidential
We approach people directly rather than advertise. Join the network and we'll come to you.
The question