Wade Arnold

When you open a new bank account, there’s usually one dominant emotion driving that decision: frustration. You’re fed up with your current financial institution.

I’ve always considered myself a software engineer by craft and an entrepreneur by accident. I never planned to end up in fintech, and I certainly never envisioned myself at the helm of a company like Moov.

If I were still using paper checks, I’d write the date as 2020, because the last few years have been a blur.

When I started in fintech, it wasn’t commonly called fintech yet. We just called it financial services back then. In that previous life, I spent a lot of time connecting to processors, and a lot of banking cores—42 of them, if I remember right.

What’s the best way to recruit phenomenal engineers? It’s not just the stock options and home office stipends (yeah, we do that, too).

I always wanted to host a fintech developer conference—the type where I wouldn’t have to dress up or smile for PR interviews.

We’re excited to announce that our flagship developer conference is back and ready to bring together builders in 2022. fintech_devcon started as a way to democratize fintech knowledge across payments, compliance, finance, and more.

I will judge my success at Moov based on the experiences of my employees. Not how many people we hire, how much money we raise, or how many dollars we move through our platform.

We started Moov in 2017 to lend a trusted hand to developers building or integrating financial products. After more than 15 years of experience developing digital banking solutions, core banking, and payments, we knew that banking infrastructure could be better.