Financial Services,
& Fintech
Engineering and product talent for regulated digital banking, payments and lending.
Engineering, product, data and compliance-tech talent for payments, lending platforms, regtech and digital banking in regulated environments.
What we do here
A balance of specialist recruitment and executive search, with occasional advisory engagements for fintechs scaling into regulated product surfaces.
Capabilities we cover
- ▸ Engineering (backend, platform, infrastructure)
- ▸ Product management
- ▸ Data and analytics
- ▸ Compliance technology and regtech
Typical roles & bands
- Senior Software Engineer$140k-$200k base
- Senior Product Manager$150k-$210k base
- Head of Engineering / CTO$230k-$340k total
- Source. The founder's placement records across 15 years of recruitment practice, continuing into AEY, plus ongoing market benchmarking.
- Composition. Base salary unless otherwise specified. Total-comp roles include equity / bonus / day-rate where stated.
- Variance. Actual offers move with stage, location, technical specialism, clearance status and the candidate's alternative options. The bands above are 25th–75th percentile, not floor and ceiling.
- Currency. All amounts in AUD.
Market notes
Australian fintech has matured from a wave of consumer-facing apps into a more concentrated set of platform and B2B firms. The hiring focus has shifted with it - fewer growth-stage front-end roles, more senior platform, infrastructure and compliance-tech mandates.
Sydney dominates; Melbourne and Brisbane have growing pools. Regulated-environment experience tracked separately.
Anonymised, never shared. Maintained as a live working map, not a database.
- Sydney · April 2026Head of Platform EngineeringExecutive Search12d shortlist · 56d close
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