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FinTech engineering that survives the audit and the production load.

We build payment platforms, lending workflows, KYC/AML pipelines, and treasury systems for companies whose definition of 'down' is measured in basis points. PCI-DSS scope reduction is a design constraint, not an afterthought.

Who this is for

Mid-market and growth-stage FinTechs — payments processors, neobanks, lending platforms, embedded-finance providers, treasury and CFO-tech, regulated brokerages — that need software vendors who understand both the engineering and the regulatory reality.

What we solve

Most FinTech systems do not fail because the engineering is bad — they fail because compliance, performance, and reliability are treated as separate concerns layered on top of each other. We treat them as one design problem from day one.

We have been shipping financial software since 2004. The systems we build today look nothing like what we shipped 20 years ago — but the discipline of treating every transaction as auditable, every deployment as reversible, and every dependency as a regulatory question, is the same.

Compliance & realities

What we design around — not bolt on.

Regulatory and operational realities we design around — not bolt on. Every engagement starts with a scope conversation that includes the compliance posture, not just the feature backlog.

PCI-DSS

Tokenized card-data handling, scope-minimized architecture, audit trails for every privileged action, and CI-enforced controls (image scanning, secrets management, change approvals). We design platforms with the smallest possible PCI footprint.

PSD2 / SCA

Strong Customer Authentication flows, exemption logic, Open Banking integrations (AISP/PISP), 3DS 2.x flows, and the operational dashboards that let your compliance team prove to auditors that the rules are actually being followed.

GDPR & data residency

EU data residency baked into infrastructure-as-code, data-subject-request automation, retention schedules enforced at the database level, and audit logs that survive both EU and global review.

KYC / AML directives

Identity-verification pipelines (document + biometric), sanctions and PEP screening, risk-scoring workflows, SAR/STR generation, and transaction monitoring patterns that regulators recognize.

MiFID II & reporting

Regulator-facing reporting pipelines (transaction reporting, best-execution reporting, position reporting), with audit-grade reconciliation between operational data and what the regulator sees.

SOC 2 & ISO 27001

Most clients arrive without these and need them within 12–18 months to close enterprise deals. We design infrastructure so the audit becomes a paperwork exercise, not a re-architecture project.

What we build

The systems we ship most often in FinTech.

01

Payment gateways & processors

Card, bank-rail, and wallet-based gateways with tokenized vault patterns, multi-PSP routing, retry logic that respects scheme rules, and real-time settlement visibility.

02

KYC / AML pipelines

Identity verification, document + biometric checks, sanctions and PEP screening, risk-scoring engines, and case-management consoles for ops and compliance teams.

03

Lending platforms

Origination, underwriting, decisioning, servicing, and collections — with policy engines that the credit team can change without redeploying.

04

Treasury & CFO-tech

Bank-account aggregation, multi-currency cash positioning, payment scheduling, FX exposure management, and reporting that finance teams actually use.

05

Trading & brokerage dashboards

Real-time order books, position management, margin calculation, and the operational tools the back-office needs to do reconciliation by 9am.

06

Regulator-facing reporting

Transaction reporting, suspicious-activity reporting, best-execution reporting, and the audit infrastructure that lets you reproduce any historical figure on demand.

Capabilities

How the team is set up for this work.

Payments & rails

Direct integrations with card networks, ACH/SEPA/Faster Payments rails, and modern PSPs. Tokenized card handling with PCI-scope reduction as a design constraint.

StripeAdyenPlaidSEPA / Faster PaymentsCard networks (Visa, Mastercard)Open Banking (PSD2)ISO 200223DS 2.x

Production architecture

Multi-region Kubernetes, audited infrastructure-as-code, blue/green deployments with sub-second rollback, and the observability stack that lets you spot a latency regression before merchants do.

Kubernetes (EKS)TerraformPostgreSQL 16RedisVaultOpenTelemetryDatadogGitHub Actions

Compliance engineering

PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 controls implemented in code, not policy PDFs. Audit trails by default. Data-subject requests automated. Retention enforced at the storage layer.

PCI-DSSPSD2 / SCAGDPRSOC 2ISO 27001AML / KYCMiFID IIAudit logging
60%
Proof

load time reduction

Strangler-fig migration from a legacy PHP monolith to a Node.js microservices platform on Kubernetes. p95 1.8s → 320ms with zero customer-visible downtime over 14 months. PCI-DSS audit closed without findings.

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FAQ

Common questions in FinTech

Do you take on PCI-DSS Level 1 work?+
Yes. We design platforms to minimize PCI scope before we write code, then implement the controls (tokenization, network segmentation, audit logging, change management) in a way that survives Level 1 audit. We will not take on a PCI engagement where the architecture forces excessive scope — we will tell you that during discovery and propose an alternative.
Have you worked with regulated FinTechs in Europe?+
Yes. Our active and recent FinTech work covers PSPs, lending platforms, embedded-finance providers, and treasury-tech in Western and Central Europe. The case study we publish anonymously on this site (a payment gateway modernization) is a representative engagement.
Can you integrate with our existing core banking or processor?+
Yes. We routinely build alongside Mambu, Thought Machine, Temenos, FIS, and major PSPs. We do not require greenfield freedom — most of the highest-leverage FinTech work is integration and modernization of systems that already serve real customers.
Do you do KYC / AML implementation or just integration?+
Both. We integrate with vendors (Onfido, Veriff, ComplyAdvantage, Sumsub) when that is the right answer, and we build custom risk-scoring and case-management on top. Where the business requires a custom risk model — for example a niche-vertical lender — we build that too, with policy interfaces the credit team can iterate on without engineering involvement.
How do you handle the audit deadline pressure that always shows up?+
Audits move on calendar dates that do not negotiate, so we plan around them explicitly during architecture. Compliance work is on the same backlog as feature work, with the same accountability. We have not missed an audit window in a financial-services engagement.
What is your average engagement size in FinTech?+
5–10 engineers and architects for 9–18 months on the typical platform-build engagement, scaling down to 2–3 senior engineers for focused integration or compliance-remediation work. Many engagements transition to a long-term retainer for ongoing support and audit cycles.

Working in FinTech? Let's talk.

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