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Fintech jobseekers didn’t have an easy H1. With a well-documented 57% decline in fintech investment in London, compared to the same period in 2022, career and company changing has not been plain sailing.
3 jobs in UK fintech this week
Karim Haji of KPMG puts it quite bluntly. “Total funding in EMEA fell off a cliff in the first half of the year, dropping from £21 billion in H2’22 to just £8.8 billion in H1’23.”
Many organisations have been sitting tight. However, a glut of good news means change is in the air – writes Amanda Kavanagh, Contributor, Jobbio.
To counter stalling, the UK government drafted a landmark piece of legislation. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (“FSMA 2023”), which is still undergoing legislative changes, plays to the UK’s strengths. Namely, talent pool, quality of universities, language, time zone position, and its non-EU legal and regulatory environment.
Specifically, the vast changes of this act include HMT having the power to introduce regulatory sandboxes for fintech organisations, giving companies a chance to experiment with new products and services under regulatory supervision.
Crypto and digital asset regulations are also in the works for early 2024, further positioning the UK as attractive as a place to do fintech business.
Add to this, a recent initiative, launched by Mastercard, Barclays, NatWest and the London Stock Exchange Group, is helping British fintechs scale and reach IPO stage faster with an investment fund of up to £1 billion.
This Fintech Growth Fund has launched in partnership with the UK government to bolster access to market, capital and talent, super-charging fintech businesses and helping to ensure the UK remains a global leader in the industry.
Seeking a new role in fintech? Take a look at the Payments Cards & Mobile Job Board, and see who’s actively recruiting. Find three below, and many more roles here.
Senior Cloud / Systems Engineer, Client Server, London/hybrid
If you’ve a strong knowledge of AWS and are proficient in Python, then this Senior Cloud / Systems Engineer position might be for you. Working in a rapidly-scaling software company using cutting-edge technologies to create fintech solutions, you will develop and deploy cloud-based infrastructure for the core trading analytics platform, utilising IaC templates. You’ll be focused on using Terraform, automating Cloud deployments (CI/CD), enhancing monitoring capabilities, supporting live environments and will have oversight of Information Security related strategies. Remote working is possible up to three days a week. Apply for this role here.
.NET Developer, Noir Consulting, Manchester
Are you a .NET Developer? Here’s your chance to work with some of the sharpest minds in private wealth management and financial software development at an ambitious fintech start-up. Based in Manchester but with remote working possibilities, applicants should be passionate .NET Developers with experience in .NET, .NET Core / ASP.NET MVC, C# and SQL Server, and further training will be provided on the job. An attractive list of benefits is on offer. Find out more about this role here.
Senior Director, Engineering (Liquidity), Ripple, London
Founded in 2012, Ripple has established itself as one of the most influential blockchain organisations in the world. It is currently seeking a Director in Engineering to lead teams in delivering optimal liquidity for its customers in a cost-effective, robust and scalable way. By mentoring, leading and growing the applied scientists, engineers and technical program managers who build the company’s liquidity and trading platforms powering its payments and crypto liquidity products, the successful candidate will forecast supply and demand, optimise routing, enable price discovery for the long-tail of crypto assets and tokens, while building a globally-distributed, high-performance trading platform. Apply for this senior role today.
For more openings in fintech, visit the Payments, Cards and Mobile Job Board today
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