EU expansion for US based fintech Lithic
Domain: fintech
Founded: 2014
The company
Lithic makes it simple to create payment cards to enable and control spending. Designed for developers, Lithic’s accessible building blocks reduce time to market, unlock new revenue streams and scale with your evolving business. Whether you’re creating payment cards for your customers, optimizing back-office operations, or simplifying disbursements, Lithic makes it easy to start without wading through lengthy MSAs or Sales demos. Pricing is simple, with no expensive monthly fees.
Tech stack
NodeJS, VueJS
Python, Rust
AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
The project
Lithic is a New York based company which was looking to expand their engineering to Europe, and Bee’s Knees helped them in this mission. The task was to find a top notch full stack engineer with a fintech background, who has previous experience working with the architecture of the applications.
To fill in this role, we did a thorough market research and assembled a list of fintech companies which we targeted for headhunting.
Hiring process
🐝 A 30 mins screening call with Bee’s Knees:
Pitching Lithic to the candidate
Questions to the candidate about their experience
Questions to the candidate related to their motivation and cultural fit
Questions to the candidate related to salary, availability, notice period
1️⃣ Lithic’s recruiter screen
2️⃣ Live coding
3️⃣ Homework (an architecture related task)
4️⃣ Project discussion
5️⃣ Culture fit interview
Results
🎯 Hires: 1
🧑💻 Roles filled: Full Stack JavaScript Engineer
📍 Location: EU