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No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
What happens next
- Do I pay upfront?
- No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
- Must I give you exclusivity?
- We do not promise or require exclusivity here. Any terms are in the recruiting agreement we refer you to.
- Will you reveal my company?
- Not without your explicit consent before we disclose anything.
- What if I do not hire?
- No hire, no fee.
- No upfront fee
- Pay only if you hire
- Technology only
- We reach engineers who aren't on job boards
- Replacement guarantee on standard searches
Need someone now? Call 305-306-4829.
Titles we fill
- Platform Engineer / SRE, Fintech
Platform engineers in fintech serve as the backbone of difficult financial operations, focusing on sub-millisecond uptime and extreme latency management. Your hire will build and scale distributed infrastructure that supports complex transaction engines, ledger synchronization, and real-time payment processing. The primary focus involves creating resilient Kubernetes orchestration layers that can handle sudden market volatility without sacrificing data integrity or performance.
Your work entails managing sophisticated audit trails, ensuring every transaction is traceable, immutable, and consistent across globally distributed systems. Engineering for scale in this sector requires deep knowledge of database sharding, caching strategies, and failover mechanisms. Your hire will balance the need for rapid deployment cycles with the absolute requirement for stability in environments where even minor downtime impacts assets.
What we screen for
Distributed Systems Reliability
Deep expertise in building highly available distributed systems is mandatory for maintaining continuous financial operations. Candidates must provide evidence of designing systems that handle state synchronization across multiple regions without losing ledger consistency. The candidate needs to discuss trade-offs in CAP theorem implementations as applied to financial databases and describe your strategies for achieving near-zero downtime during system migrations.
Low Latency Infrastructure
You need to demonstrate experience in optimizing network stacks and kernel parameters to reduce latency in high-throughput environments. Proficiency in profiling performance bottlenecks within the platform layer is essential. We look for examples where you successfully re-architected infrastructure to decrease request latency by significant margins, ensuring payment processing pipelines remain responsive and efficient even during periods of heavy market load.
Audit Trail Engineering
Maintaining immutable, verifiable audit logs is a core requirement for fintech compliance and system integrity. Candidates must show experience designing logging and storage architectures that ensure data forensic capabilities without introducing performance overhead. You should explain your methods for handling massive transaction volumes while keeping audit data accessible for internal reporting, regulatory requests, and automated verification within distributed platforms.
Kubernetes Scalability Expertise
Advanced knowledge of container orchestration in large-scale production is vital. You must demonstrate how to configure and manage Kubernetes clusters that scale dynamically to meet volatile financial demands. Experience with custom controllers, service meshes, and autoscaling policies is expected. We are interested in the candidate's ability to resolve complex cluster-level issues that threaten service reliability or cause latency spikes in production.
Database Consistency Management
Ensuring strict transaction consistency across distributed database systems is a daily challenge in fintech. You must be comfortable managing replication, partitioning, and backup strategies to protect financial records against corruption or loss. Experience with transactional integrity patterns and conflict resolution in eventually consistent environments will be key. You should demonstrate how your designs prevent double spending or ledger inconsistencies at scale.
Security Infrastructure Focus
Fintech platforms require rigorous security controls embedded at every layer of the infrastructure. You should have expertise in implementing zero-trust architectures, managing secrets at scale, and securing service-to-service communication. Candidates must understand the intersection of platform engineering and financial security requirements, showing how your work defends against potential breaches while maintaining the high performance necessary for modern payment transaction systems.
Related skills and ecosystems we cover
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Linux
- VMware
- Cisco
- Juniper / Arista
- Palo Alto Networks
- Fortinet
Where we find them
Our sourcing efforts focus on infrastructure engineers from major payment processors and digital banking institutions who have managed large-scale, mission-critical environments. We seek out those who have moved beyond standard site reliability engineering to tackle the specific demands of high-throughput financial ledgers. Many of our best candidates come from teams that maintain internal cloud infrastructure for real-time transactional data.
We also recruit from engineers who have contributed to open-source distributed database projects and cloud-native computing foundations. These individuals possess the technical depth required to build the low-latency foundations of our platform. By targeting people with backgrounds in heavy infrastructure projects, we ensure we find those comfortable with the difficult responsibility inherent to managing our fintech production systems.
The role and the hiring environment
How a Platform Engineer / SRE, Fintech search runs
The process starts with a technical review of your approach to building resilient, high-throughput infrastructure. Your hire will be asked to explain how you managed a significant production outage or performance degradation in a distributed system, detailing the specific steps taken to diagnose the issue and the architectural changes implemented to prevent recurrence, ensuring that our uptime goals are met.
Final interviews focus on your design philosophy regarding stateful services and consistency in financial platforms. Your hire will discuss how you balance the conflicting requirements of high scale, low latency, and auditability. We evaluate the candidate's ability to communicate complex engineering tradeoffs to various stakeholders, ensuring you have the technical vision to lead our platform evolution for years to come.
What happens next
What happens next
- Do I pay upfront?
- No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
- Must I give you exclusivity?
- We do not promise or require exclusivity here. Any terms are in the recruiting agreement we refer you to.
- Will you reveal my company?
- Not without your explicit consent before we disclose anything.
- What if I do not hire?
- No hire, no fee.
Questions about this search
When will we see a shortlist?
We agree the search plan after checking your requirements for distributed systems reliability and low latency infrastructure, rather than promising a date before the brief is clear. Deep expertise in building highly available distributed systems is mandatory for maintaining continuous financial operations.
What if a candidate gets a counteroffer?
We ask what would make someone leave work involving distributed systems reliability, and what could make them stay. Before you invest in interviews, we discuss whether your offer changes the problem they want to leave, including the responsibility for security infrastructure focus.
Should this role be remote or on site?
Experience with distributed systems reliability and low latency infrastructure does not settle the location question. Tell us what access and supervision the work needs, including who owns decisions about security infrastructure focus, so we approach people who can accept the arrangement.
How will you check fit before we interview?
Deep expertise in building highly available distributed systems is mandatory for maintaining continuous financial operations. Candidates must provide evidence of designing systems that handle state synchronization across multiple regions without losing ledger consistency. You need to demonstrate experience in optimizing network stacks and kernel parameters to reduce latency in high-throughput environments.
How does the fee work?
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. Agree the fee and the responsibilities covering distributed systems reliability and low latency infrastructure in the recruiting agreement before the search proceeds.
What if the hire does not work out?
We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement. Make sure the agreed scope includes what you expect of security infrastructure focus, rather than leaving that discussion until after the start.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
What happens next
- Do I pay upfront?
- No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
- Must I give you exclusivity?
- We do not promise or require exclusivity here. Any terms are in the recruiting agreement we refer you to.
- Will you reveal my company?
- Not without your explicit consent before we disclose anything.
- What if I do not hire?
- No hire, no fee.
How a search runs
The Six-Step Search
- 1Search Calibration
A call about the work. You get a written search profile.
- 2Market Mapping
We identify the employer backgrounds that fit. You see where we will look.
- 3Professional Contact Intelligence
We identify individual people, not job board applicants.
- 4Persistent Personalized Outreach
Personal outreach and direct follow-through. You get search updates.
- 5Live Candidate Qualification
A recruiter checks stack, scope and motivation in conversation.
- 6Candidate Intelligence and Process Support
You receive a written brief on every person you meet.
Working with Technology Headhunters
What don't you do in a permanent search?
We do not bill by the hour for permanent search or charge a retainer unless one is agreed. We do not treat reposting your job advertisement as headhunting.