Engineering Talent for High-Performance Trading & Fintech Teams

We partner with proprietary trading firms and technology-driven financial businesses to deliver engineers, infrastructure specialists and technical leaders who directly impact performance.
Trusted since 2015
Global search capability
Deep networks in trading & fintech
Discreet, high-touch recruitment
What we do

Specialist Recruitment Across:

Trading Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Low-latency systems, Linux, HPC, network engineering, platform reliability.

Software Engineering

C++, Python, Java, Go, Rust, backend systems, trading tools, APIs.

Security & Network Engineering

Fortinet, Cisco, infrastructure security, production environments.

Data & Quant Engineering

Data platform, ML engineering, analytics infrastructure.

How we work

1. Precision Briefing

We go deep on technical stack, team structure, performance expectations and hiring urgency.

2. Targeted Search

We don’t rely on job boards. We headhunt from aligned environments.

3. Shortlist with Context

Every candidate includes market insight, motivation and technical evaluation.
From our happy clients...

“Craig provided quality candidates who are good technical fits, good cultural fits and also just generally good people.”

Molly Rome Recordpoint
Molly Rowe - Head of People and Culture Recordpoint

“Great to work with and has been able to connect us with the right people. Highly recommended.”

Phillip Souter Bendigo Bank
Phillip Souter
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

“If I could give one tip to someone trying to break into the IT industry, it would be: ring Craig.”

Patrick DevOps
Patrick Conheady
Tax, DevOps, Automation
    For employers

    We work with:

    • Proprietary trading firms

    • Fintech scale-ups

    • Performance-driven engineering teams

    • Infrastructure-heavy technology businesses

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    For canditates

    We represent high-impact engineers and technical professionals who want to work in performance-focused environments.

    • Access to confidential roles

    • Transparent market insight

    • Long-term career partnership

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