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Backend, platform, cloud, SRE and security engineers who understand correctness, auditability and uptime in a financial context.

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Financial systems punish the failure modes most product engineering tolerates. Eventual consistency is a design choice in a social feed and a reconciliation incident in a ledger.

We recruit engineers and engineering leaders for companies where correctness, auditability and availability carry direct financial and regulatory consequence.

What we understand about this market

Published so you can assess our domain knowledge before the first call, rather than after it.

  • Distributed systems concerns that actually matter in finance: idempotency, exactly-once semantics, ordering, backpressure
  • Event-driven architecture, outbox patterns and the reconciliation cost of getting them wrong
  • Ledger and double-entry design, immutability and audit trails
  • High-availability requirements, RTO/RPO and regulator expectations on resilience
  • Cloud architecture under data-residency constraints across the UAE, UK, EU and Singapore
  • Security engineering: key management, HSMs, tokenisation, secrets handling, PCI scope reduction
  • Engineering leadership signals — platform investment, on-call health, delivery predictability

What we screen for

The signals that separate candidates who have done the job from candidates who can describe it.

Correctness under failure, not algorithm trivia

We probe how a candidate handles duplicate messages, partial failures and replay. It predicts performance in financial systems far better than a whiteboard exercise.

Evidence of operational ownership

We look for engineers who have carried a pager for a system that moves money, and can describe an incident they caused as clearly as one they fixed.

Leadership hires: scope versus title

VP Engineering means very different things at 25 and 250 people. We calibrate on team size, hiring history, budget ownership and what they actually built versus inherited.

Where these hires go wrong

  • Running a generic FAANG-style interview loop for a role whose real risk is transactional correctness.
  • Hiring a first engineering leader for architecture skill when the pressing need is hiring and delivery process.
  • Over-indexing on language experience. Strong systems engineers cross languages; few cross domains quickly.

Frequently asked

Do you only recruit engineers with fintech experience?
No. For many engineering roles, strong distributed-systems and operational experience transfers well, and insisting on prior fintech unnecessarily shrinks the pool. We advise on where domain experience is genuinely required — typically payments, ledgers, and regulated or controlled functions — and where it is not.
Can you recruit contract as well as permanent engineers?
Yes. We handle both permanent and contract engagements, and will tell you when contract is the better route for a short-lived delivery need.

Hiring a role that generalist recruiters keep getting wrong?

Send us the brief. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it, what the market looks like, and what it will take to hire.

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