One of the world’s hottest fintechs has been hiring in Singapore

British fintech firm Revolut launched its suite of app-based banking products in Singapore last week, months after opening its APAC headquarters in the Republic and running its services in beta. Moreover, the company has been on a hiring spree of late, picking off talent from tech companies, consultancies and banks.

In March, Revolut appointed Eddie Lee, a former Uber Eats executive, to lead its Asia Pacific operations from its regional headquarters in Singapore. Lee has a liking for hiring his former Uber colleagues, according to LinkedIn profiles. Earlier this month Ken Chong, who worked for Uber in a data scientist strategy role, joined Revolut as a manager in strategy and operations. Eeshan Sridhar came on board in July to lead Revolut’s Singapore-based operations team, having spent the previous three years as head of APAC enterprise operations for Uber.

Revolut’s Singapore office has also poached from consultancy firms. It hired PwC manager Winnie Tuang last month as a senior manager in strategy and operations, and it hired Deloitte’s Anthony Wood in July as an operations manager.

Revolut, which was founded in 2015 by a former Credit Suisse equity derivatives trader and an ex-Deutsche and UBS developer, hasn’t only had its eye on strategists in Singapore. Like the startup virtual banks that are due to launch in Hong Kong in the coming months, Revolut has also been recruiting risk and compliance staff. Last month Revolut took on 20-year risk veteran Charlene Tong as chief risk officer and it recruited Raynor Tan from DBS in a financial-crime product role. Earlier this year compliance professional Valerie Goh moved to Revolut from Singaporean fintech M-Daq.

Lee first flagged his plans to recruit in compliance during a March Straits Times interview when addressing criticism that Revolut might have been expanding too aggressively at the expense of regulatory compliance.

Revolut does not appear to have done much technology recruitment in Singapore as yet. There are no Singaporean jobs among the 40 tech vacancies on the firm’s careers website, which are spread across London, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Krakow, Vilnius, Berlin and San Francisco. This may not always be the case. Earlier this year, the company revealed that it plans to work with Singaporean educational institutions to facilitate staff training, pointing out that its services are heavily reliant on skills such as data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and user interface design.

Right now, Revolut has Singapore-based vacancies in fields such as marketing, operations and HR. Whether you’d want to apply for one of them is another question. In a February Wired article, former UK staff members alleged that the company had a toxic working culture, ruthless targets and a high staff turnover. These claims were subsequently rebutted by some of its current employees, who said they admired the company’s strategic “vision”, cutting-edge tech, and lack of bureaucracy.

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