FinTech & Financial Services Recruiting for Teams Moving Money and Moving Fast

Contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement talent who understand both the technology and the regulation.

Whether you're a payments startup racing a roadmap or a hundred-year-old bank modernizing a core system, you're fishing in the same talent pool. And it's crowded. You're competing against big banks with bigger budgets and big tech with bigger equity, and the regulators don't care that you're short-staffed. Catch finds financial people who get it: the ones who can ship fast without breaking the things that absolutely cannot break. From Software Engineers to Product Managers to Risk and Compliance leaders, we deliver interview-ready professionals who fit your team, your stage, and your culture.

Three Ways to Get the People You Need

Different problems, different solutions. Here's how financial teams actually use us.

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Contract Staffing

When you need capacity, not headcount.

The core conversion deadline moved up, the exam is in eight weeks, and hiring approvals are frozen until the next board meeting. Catch puts vetted financial technology professionals on your team fast, on our payroll, with the flexibility to scale as priorities shift.

  • Vetted talent with real fintech and financial services experience

  • Co-employment protection, we handle W2, payroll, and compliance

  • Flex your team up or down as the roadmap changes

  • Local presence with a national footprint

  • Meaningful reduction in time-to-hire

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Direct Placement

When the seat needs a long-term owner.

Some hires can't be temporary. A VP of Engineering, a Chief Compliance Officer, a Head of Product. For those, we run the full search: position-specific sourcing, pre-screening, qualification, and selection, then stay in it as your partner all the way through offer and close.

  • Talent attraction and engagement strategy built for your stage

  • Position-specific sourcing and long-term pipeline development

  • Pre-screen, qualify, and select, so you only meet real contenders

  • Interviewing strategy and development

  • A strategic partner and liaison through the close, not a resume vending machine

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Contract-To-Hire

When you want to test the waters.

The role matters and the budget's approved, but a bad senior engineer or compliance lead hire costs you a quarter you can't get back. Bring someone on contract, watch them work inside your stack and your controls, and convert when you're confident. Both sides get a real look first.

  • Try before you commit, and so do they

  • Lower risk on business-critical technical and regulatory roles

  • Clean, straightforward conversion terms

  • Candidates get a genuine feel for your culture and your environment

Financial Services & FinTech Roles We Fill

Financial services isn't one talent market. It's engineers, quants, underwriters, compliance pros, and go-to-market people who all have to speak the same language. Here's where our recruiters have real depth and a network to match.

Software Engineering: Backend Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Front-End Engineer, Mobile Engineer (iOS/Android), Staff/Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager

Data & Analytics: Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, BI Developer, Data Architect

Payments & Core Banking: Payments Engineer, Core Banking Integration Specialist, Card Platform Engineer, Ledger Engineer, ACH and Wire Operations Analyst

Risk, Fraud & Financial Crime: Fraud Analyst, AML Analyst, BSA Officer, Risk Manager, Transaction Monitoring Analyst, Financial Crimes Investigator

Compliance & RegTech: Compliance Manager, Compliance Analyst, Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Audit Manager, Policy and Controls Lead

Cybersecurity & InfoSec: Security Engineer, Application Security Engineer, IAM Engineer, GRC Analyst, SOC Analyst, CISO

Quantitative & Financial Engineering: Quantitative Analyst, Quantitative Developer, Financial Engineer, Pricing Analyst, Model Validation Analyst

Product Management: Product Manager, Senior Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Product Owner, Group PM, VP of Product

Design & User Experience: Product Designer, UX Designer, UI Designer, UX Researcher, Design Systems Lead

Quality Engineering: QA Engineer, SDET, Automation Engineer, Performance Engineer, Test Lead

Implementation & Client Success: Implementation Consultant, Solutions Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Client Success Manager, Onboarding Specialist

Revenue & Go-to-Market: Account Executive, Enterprise Sales, Sales Engineer, Partnerships Manager, Revenue Operations, Demand Generation

Banking & Lending Technology: Loan Origination Systems Analyst, Digital Banking Product Manager, Servicing Platform Engineer, Credit Systems Analyst, Core Conversion Lead

Wealth & Asset Management Technology: Portfolio Management Systems Analyst, Advisor Platform Product Manager, Trading Systems Engineer, Custody and Clearing Analyst, Performance Reporting Specialist

Platform, Cloud & DevOps: DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Architect (AWS/Azure/GCP), Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer

Finance, Accounting & Treasury: Controller, FP&A Analyst, Revenue Accountant, Treasury Analyst, Reconciliation Specialist

Insurance & InsurTech: Policy Administration Analyst, Claims Systems Engineer, Underwriting Technology Lead, Actuarial Analyst, Insurance Product Manager

Why Financial Companies Keep Calling Us Back

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TALENT

Fully-vetted, offer-ready candidates of the highest quality. In financial services that means we've verified the technical depth, pressure-tested how they've handled regulated environments, and confirmed they've worked at your scale and stage. A brilliant engineer who's never shipped inside a compliance framework is a different hire than one who has. We know the difference. We don't forward resumes, we send people who are ready to say yes.

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TIME

Your team is shipping product, closing books, and answering to regulators. Screening 300 applications isn't the job. Financial searches burn time because the best people aren't applying, they're heads-down somewhere good. Reaching them takes relationships you've been building for years, and that's our problem to solve, not yours. We free up your time and resources so you can get back to the work that moves the business.

TEAM

A tenured crew with deep industry knowledge and real relationships. Our recruiters can talk through a payments architecture, understand why a consumer fintech PM isn't the same as a core banking PM, and know which licenses and certifications actually matter versus which are just alphabet soup. You get people who've been doing this a while, not a rotating cast of order-takers.

Who We Are

Catch Talent is a high-touch recruiting agency that delivers end-to-end talent acquisition solutions to growing technology, financial services, healthcare, digital and creative, professional services, and government contracting companies.

Headquartered in Charleston, SC, we specialize in the full talent attraction lifecycle: sourcing and recruiting qualified candidates who are interview-ready, culturally-aligned, and ready to make an immediate impact.

Financial services sits at the intersection of two things we've done for years: technology recruiting and regulated-industry hiring. We've helped payments platforms, lenders, banks, insurance carriers, wealth and asset management firms, and venture-backed startups build teams through funding rounds, core conversions, product launches, and the occasional all-hands-on-deck sprint. That work built the network, and the network is what you're hiring.

Built on relationships. Focused on people. That’s how we work.

How Can Catch Help You and Your Team?

Tell us what you're building and who you need on it. Whether it's one hard-to-fill Staff Engineer seat or an entire compliance function from scratch, we'd love to hear about it. Fill out the short form and we'll be in touch quickly, with actual humans.

  • "Catch Talent has proven to be an invaluable partner to us, and they were instrumental in making it possible to grow from 25 to 150 employees in less than two years, preserving our culture and helping us define hiring profiles. Their service levels adapted to our needs at every stage of growth which allows us to manage the business. Whether we are looking for a very specific technical profile or need to quickly grow a team to respond to a surge in work, Catch simply delivers."

    — CEO, FinTech Company

  • "Catch does a great job consistently providing us with quality candidates. There are a lot of agencies out there that only focus on filling roles as quickly as possible, but Catch is different: They ensure candidates not only have the right skillset, but also align with our company culture."

    — Talent Acquisition Director

Frequently Asked Questions

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