Fintech, Payments & Digital Assets Lawyer

Axiom; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Health benefits

Pension

Professional development

Job summary

Axiom is seeking a senior legal advisor in the United Kingdom to provide commercially oriented guidance on fintech, payments, digital assets, and related technology offerings. You will draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial and technology agreements, and navigate regulatory issues affecting cross-border services.

You will collaborate with product, compliance, risk, and external counsel to support launches, partnerships, and ongoing risk management in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with fintech, payments, digital assets, crypto, blockchain or financial services experience.
• Experience advising fintechs, PSPs, e-money institutions, digital asset businesses, banks or related entities.
• Strong drafting, review and negotiation of commercial contracts, SaaS, cloud, outsourcing, partnerships and platform agreements.
• Excellent commercial judgment, stakeholder management, and ability to deliver pragmatic advice in a regulated, fast paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical, commercially focused legal advice on fintech, payments, digital assets, crypto, blockchain, and related offerings.
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial and technology agreements including SaaS, cloud, outsourcing and platform arrangements.
• Advise on regulatory considerations affecting fintech, payments, e-money, cryptoassets, data governance, and cross-border services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external counsel to support product development, regulatory change, partnerships, and risk mitigation.

Skills

UK fintech & payments experience

Drafting & negotiating

Regulatory & compliance

Stakeholder management

Education

Qualified UK solicitor/barrister

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Provide practical, commercially focused legal advice on fintech, payments, digital assets, crypto, blockchain, embedded finance, digital wallets, tokenisation, payment products, platform arrangements, and innovative financial services offerings.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial and technology agreements, including partnership agreements, payment services agreements, SaaS agreements, cloud contracts, outsourcing arrangements, referral agreements, reseller agreements, supplier contracts, and platform agreements.
• Advise on regulatory considerations affecting fintech, payments, e-money, cryptoassets, digital assets, outsourcing, operational resilience, data governance, technology risk, cross-border services, and financial services innovation.
• Partner with legal, compliance, product, commercial, technology, risk, operations, and external counsel teams to support product development, product launches, regulatory change, commercial partnerships, and risk mitigation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK, or equivalent overseas qualification with strong fintech, payments, digital assets, crypto, blockchain, technology, or financial services experience.
• Experience advising fintech companies, payment service providers, e-money institutions, digital asset businesses, technology companies, banks, financial institutions, or other regulated financial services organisations.
• Strong drafting, review, and negotiation experience across commercial contracts, technology agreements, SaaS, cloud, outsourcing, partnership agreements, supplier arrangements, payment services agreements, or platform agreements.
• Excellent commercial awareness, stakeholder management, drafting, analytical, and legal judgment skills, with the ability to deliver pragmatic, business-focused advice in fast-paced, innovative, and regulated environments.

Compensation, Benefits & Location:

This role offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace, that includes health benefits, pension and more. Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiom provides the opportunity to work remotely, onsite or hybrid, depending on client requirements.

Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alternative legal services.