Straight talk on fintech hiring, salaries and career moves, written by people who read the job postings so you don’t have to.
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Ireland wants 70,000 new financial services jobs by 2030. Finjobsly looked at what fintech roles are open in Ireland today.
What the OCC's final GENIUS Act rule settled, and what Finjobsly's live job data shows about stablecoin and compliance roles.
Finjobsly counted active fintech roles by seniority level and looked at which employers hire at entry level.
How one large employer shapes fintech job statistics, and which skills rankings change when Stripe is removed from Finjobsly's panel.
Finjobsly checked how many active fintech job ads publish a pay range, and which employers do it most and least often.
What do live job postings and published forecasts say about fintech hiring in 2027? We separate what Finjobsly observed on 20 October 2026 from what BLS, the WEF, KPMG, the ONS and regulators project, and list what to monitor.
Manchester fintech listings are thin, with just 5 active roles on Finjobsly on 20 October 2026, all at Zopa. Here is what is open and how to widen your search if you are targeting the city.
4,187 active fintech roles across 36 tracked employers, engineering and sales dominating by title, and a seniority skew of roughly nine senior-or-above roles for every entry-level one. Finjobsly's own job data on where fintech hiring stands on 20 October 2026.
Finjobsly data shows 343 open Account Executive roles against just 13 distinct entry-level SDR openings. The traditional fintech sales ladder has far more rungs at the top than at the bottom.
Finjobsly tracked 711 active fintech vacancies listing San Francisco or the Bay Area at 18 employers on 20 October 2026. Stripe (137), Block (87) and Brex (76) lead, and the 386 roles with USD pay ranges have a median midpoint of $207,200.
Finjobsly tracked 52 active fintech vacancies listing Atlanta at 5 employers on 20 October 2026. Stripe (24) and Gusto (15) lead, 30 roles are sales and go-to-market, and the 13 roles with USD pay ranges have a median midpoint of $164,450.
Finjobsly tracked 31 active fintech vacancies listing Miami at 5 employers on 20 October 2026. Gemini (13) and Nubank (12) lead, 26 roles allow remote work, and the 18 roles with USD pay ranges have a median midpoint of $170,000.
Banking skills map to real demand in fintech. Compliance is tagged on 1,086 roles, Fraud on 390, Risk Management on 281 and Treasury on 211 (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Only 25.5% of fintech roles are engineering titles. Sales, product, risk, operations and finance make up most of the rest. See the no-code roles, employers and pay (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Fintech employers want product managers who know payments (54.1% of PM roles) and compliance (50.7%). 209 PM-titled roles, the employers hiring and the pay (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
144 fintech roles carry compliance, AML, KYC, financial crime or regulatory titles, and Compliance is tagged on 25.9% of all roles. See who hires and what it pays (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Payments (47.0%), Compliance (25.9%) and Go (23.4%) top the skills tagged on 4,187 fintech roles. Ranking, the Stripe effect and how to prioritise (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Payments is the most common skill in fintech job ads: 1,966 of 4,187 active roles (47.0%). See who is hiring, which roles and what they pay (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
US fintech roles advertise an average range of $174,965 to $229,785 against £91,948 to £118,521 in the UK. Engineering, sample sizes and caveats (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
59.8% of the 3,142 fintech roles that state a work style are remote. See which employers hire remotely, which roles allow it and how to apply (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Finjobsly tracked 844 active fintech vacancies listing New York at 25 employers on 20 October 2026. Stripe (172), Ramp (131) and Mercury (73) lead, and the 359 roles with USD pay ranges have a median midpoint of $193,000.
184 fintech roles carry AI, machine learning or LLM titles, and 10.1% of all roles mention AI in the title or skills. See who hires and what it pays (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Which fintech employers with a New York presence appear in independent workplace lists (checked 1 October 2026), what they publish about working there, and which have open New York roles in Finjobsly's live data as of 20 October 2026.
Which fintech employers with a London presence appear in independent workplace lists (checked 1 October 2026), what they publish about working there, and which of them have open London roles in Finjobsly's live data as of 20 October 2026.
Finjobsly tracked 858 active roles listing New York City at 25 of its 36 tracked employers on 20 October 2026, but only 455 name New York alone. Stripe has 183 and Ramp 131, and 358 roles advertise a USD range (median $166,300 to $218,150).
Finjobsly tracked 358 active roles listing London at 21 of its 36 tracked employers on 20 October 2026. Checkout.com (75), Monzo (53) and Stripe (53) lead, engineering and sales are close to level, and GBP pay is advertised on 59 roles, 46 of them at Monzo.
Payments tops Finjobsly's skill tags (47.1% of 4,173 roles) and still leads at 35.9% without Stripe, ahead of Compliance, the only tag at all 36 employers. Which skills pair up, which define each function, and where pay differs within a family, at 36 tracked employers on 20 October 2026.
Engineering and sales are the biggest job families in Finjobsly's data: 1,096 and 926 of 4,190 active roles at 36 tracked employers (20 October 2026). Product and marketing roles are 86% and 82% senior or above, sales is 53%. Median advertised USD minimums run from $120,000 to $191,500.
Finjobsly first saw 590 of the 3,653 active roles (16%) at 31 long-tracked fintech employers in the 14 days to 20 October 2026, across 30 of them. Stripe, Toast, Affirm, Adyen and Robinhood added the most. Page refreshed regularly.
Finjobsly data shows 64% of 4,182 fintech roles mention AI in some form, but only 36% once repeated company boilerplate is removed and 10% name AI in the title or skill tags. Here is where AI skills really appear, by function and employer.
As of 20 October 2026, Finjobsly tracked 925 sales and go-to-market roles at 32 of its 36 employers. Account Executive titles are 444 of them, and Toast alone holds 206. Here is the role and employer mix by sales function.
Finjobsly tracked 1,095 engineering roles at 34 employers on 20 October 2026. Advertised USD pay ranges for Senior engineers have a median of $186,065 to $233,000 (n=167), and Stripe is the largest with 157 roles.
Nine fintech employers on Finjobsly's panel publish benefit details on official pages. Monzo, Affirm and Robinhood give the most numbers. Pay ranges are disclosed on 3% to 88% of their live roles (1,993 roles, 20 October 2026).
Finjobsly tracked 4,187 live roles at 36 fintech employers on 20 October 2026. Pay ranges are recorded on 35.6% of roles, from 0% to 100% by employer. These are posting behaviours, not culture, and this guide separates them from company claims and employee lists.
As of 20 October 2026, Finjobsly tracked 1,030 live software engineering roles at 34 fintech employers. Stripe, Affirm, Coinbase, Brex and Robinhood hire the most. Here are the skills, seniority, remote share and pay.
There is no single objective list of the best fintechs to work for. This guide combines independent employee-survey recognition with live hiring, pay-transparency and remote-work data from 36 tracked employers, as of 20 October 2026.
As of 20 October 2026, Finjobsly tracked 360 live data, analytics and machine learning roles at 33 fintech employers. Stripe, Coinbase, Checkout.com, Affirm and Adyen hire the most. Here is who is recruiting, what they pay and which skills they ask for.
US fintech roles that state pay advertise an average range of $174,965 to $229,785, UK roles £91,948 to £118,521. Medians by role family, city and sample size (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
336 of the 4,129 seniority-labelled fintech roles on Finjobsly are junior or internship, 8.1% of the total. See who hires them, where, and how to apply (20 Oct 2026 data).
Finjobsly tracked 358 active fintech vacancies listing London at 21 employers on 20 October 2026. Checkout.com (74), Stripe (53) and Monzo (53) lead, and the 59 roles with GBP pay ranges have a median midpoint of £105,000.
Engineering (1,066 roles, 25.5%) and sales (914, 21.8%) are the most in-demand fintech job families, followed by product, data and risk (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Stripe leads with 776 active roles, followed by Toast (337), Brex (263) and Adyen (240). See the 20 fintech employers hiring the most right now (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
What actually happens to your health coverage after a layoff looks completely different depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on. Here's both, without the panic.
Base severance is shrinking. The outplacement extras around it, resume coaching, alumni networks, interview prep, are increasingly where the real value sits, and they're not automatic.
Severance packages have shrunk about 30 percent since 2023. That makes what you negotiate beyond the base number more important this year, not less.
By the time a layoff makes the general news cycle, the people it affects are already days behind. Here's where the signal actually shows up first.
FNZ's $650M raise and a wave of AI-advisory funding are reshaping WealthTech hiring. Here's which roles are actually in demand, and how to land one.
Three fintechs cut staff within the same quarter of 2026. One stock jumped 16.8 percent, one fell more than 8 percent, and one did both in the same day. The cut size didn't predict the reaction, what it was paired with did.
2026's cuts get talked about like an isolated event. They're actually the third distinct wave in four years, and each one has had a different cause.
US employment law doesn't guarantee severance the way people assume. Here's what a fintech layoff actually entitles you to under the WARN Act, COBRA, and state law in 2026.
If you've been made redundant at a UK fintech, here's what the law actually entitles you to on notice and severance, and where the real negotiation room is.
Stripe has the most AI-titled roles (32), but Nubank (11.1%) and Plaid (9.8%) have the highest share of AI roles in their own hiring. Eight employers compared (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Fintech interviews test more than coding ability or product sense, most also screen for regulatory literacy. Here's what the actual assessment categories look like and how to prepare for each.
UK fintech engineering roles that state pay advertise an average range of £108,176 to £141,633, but the sample is only 21 roles. Skills, London demand and caveats (Finjobsly data, 20 Oct 2026).
Fintech layoffs hit record highs in 2026 while funding hit record highs too. Here is what the job cuts at Block, Bolt, Coinbase, Visa and others actually mean for your next fintech role, and the AI tools built for a market like this one.
Most fintech job postings read like buzzword bingo. Here is how to tell a role with real technical depth from one padded with jargon, and what that means if you are writing the posting instead of reading it.
Stripe, Plaid, Ramp, Adyen and others are actively hiring in fintech in 2026. Here's who's growing, where, and how to get on their radar.
Confused by fintech job titles? Here's what roles like Risk Analyst, Platform Engineer, and AI Governance Specialist actually mean and pay in 2026.
No finance or target-school background? Here's a realistic path into fintech in 2026, what actually gets you noticed, and where to start.
PayPal, Block, Visa, Bolt, Coinbase, and Intuit have all cut jobs this year and named AI as the reason. Here's what's actually driving it, which fintech roles are exposed, and how to protect your career.
