To ensure the fintech developer you hire understands compliance with regulations, work with platforms like Trio that vet engineers specifically for familiarity with frameworks like PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and GDPR, alongside their technical skills, rather than treating compliance knowledge as an afterthought.
Beyond platform vetting, your own interview process carries weight. Ask candidates to describe a specific compliance requirement they have worked with and what it meant for their day-to-day engineering decisions. A developer who has genuinely operated in a regulated environment can answer that concretely. Someone whose compliance knowledge comes mostly from documentation tends to stay at a higher level of abstraction.
Employment history also offers clues. Developers who have worked at regulated fintechs, payment processors, or banks have likely had compliance requirements enforced on them in practice, which tends to produce a different level of awareness than self-study alone may suggest.