The Pacific Northwest / Seattle Market
Seattle's fintech market is shaped by proximity to Amazon, the emergence of embedded finance across Amazon's ecosystem, and the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions' licensing framework. WA DFI money transmitter requirements, the Washington Privacy Act, and the MHMD Act for any fintech touching health-related financial data create a compliance surface area that expands quickly as product scope grows.
Engineering teams building fintech infrastructure in Seattle need to design for Amazon ecosystem integration — particularly AWS financial services compliance requirements — alongside WA DFI licensing obligations. We deploy with both mapped from the architecture stage, not retrofitted when the licensing application triggers a compliance review.
Compliance Coverage
Every system we deploy for Fintech in Pacific Northwest / Seattle is SOC 2-compliant from architecture through deployment. SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance is enforced automatically at every commit — not assessed after the fact.
Engagement Scope
Duration: 8–16 weeks
A focused team deployed against a single Fintech platform in Pacific Northwest / Seattle. SOC 2 and PCI-DSS-compliant architecture from day one. Fixed price, fixed output, no discovery phase.
Duration: 3–9 months
40–100 engineers running parallel workstreams across a Fintech transformation in Pacific Northwest / Seattle. Multi-system compliance governance and SOC 2 and PCI-DSS certification maintained across the full program.
Duration: 6–18 months
100–250+ engineers owning the complete technology infrastructure for a Fintech organization in Pacific Northwest / Seattle. Full SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance across every system, every integration, every deployment.