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Scaling a FinTech Engineering Team

Bud is building a financial ecosystem to underpin modern banking: one that seamlessly connects people to financial products & services that improve their lives.

We teamed up with Craig at the end of 2018 to meet a relatively challenging brief. He discovered a strong developer candidate in a competitive London market in a very short space of time. To prove that wasn’t just the luck of the Irish, Craig demonstrated that he knew his market and his candidates very well. He responded to early candidate feedback very quickly during our search; helping him to get a feel for the most important characteristics our successful candidate needed to demonstrate. We felt Craig delivered the right balance of interesting and good quality CVs without bombarding us with everything in the draw.
Mediablaze Head of Digital
Brief to placement in 4 weeks
Permanent, contract and C-suite placements
Single hires to full team builds
Startups to global investment banks

The Objective

In mid 2018 we began work with Bud. Their objective was to grow out their Technology Team with major focus on their Backend Team, where they were struggling to recruit high quality candidates. Bud wanted to achieve this rapid growth in the most cost effective and efficient way. We were initially brought in alongside 8 other agencies who had been working with Bud previously. We soon became the sole supplier for all of Bud’s technical hires.

The Process

From the very beginning of our relationship with Bud we regularly discussed the businesses requirements, hiring needs, challenges and preferred methods of communication. Each of our consultants specialise in their own market which allows them to build a strong network in their field therefore allowing us to provide the best match for each role at Bud.

“Albert Bow helped us scale last year where we went from 17 people Jan’18 to over 60 by Dec’18. David has been pivotal in providing insights into the engineering market as well always providing a first-class experience for the candidates which I truly admire and will always remain in contact with whichever business I work for.”
Ryan Bolton-Smith. Internal Recruiter at Bud

The Result

In just under a year of partnering with Bud we have filled 13/15 of the live roles. Building out 50% of their Backend Team, along with placements in their Mobile Team and Change and Transformation Team.


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