FinTech Recruiting for Teams Moving Money and Moving Fast
Contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement talent who understand both the code and the compliance.
You're competing for engineers against big banks with bigger budgets and big tech with bigger equity. Meanwhile your roadmap assumes a team you haven't hired yet, and the regulators don't care that you're short-staffed. Catch finds fintech 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 Analysts, 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 fintech teams actually use us.
Contract Staffing
When you need capacity, not headcount.
The integration deadline moved up, the audit is in eight weeks, and hiring approvals are frozen until the next board meeting. Catch puts vetted fintech 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
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
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 process, 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 codebase
Financial Tech Roles We Fill
FinTech isn't one talent market. It's engineers, quants, 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
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
Why FinTech Companies Keep Calling Us Back
TALENT
Fully-vetted, offer-ready candidates of the highest quality. In fintech that means we've verified the stack 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.
TIME
Your team is shipping product and answering to regulators. Screening 300 applications isn't the job. FinTech 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 B2B infrastructure PM, and know which 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.
Our fintech work sits right at the intersection of two things we've done for years: technology recruiting and financial services. We've helped payments platforms, lending companies, wealth and banking software firms, and venture-backed startups build teams through funding rounds, 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.