Entry-level roles are scarce in fintech: 336 of the 4,129 seniority-labelled roles on Finjobsly are junior or internship positions, which is 8.1%, while 70.1% are senior or above. This guide uses Finjobsly's live job market data as of 20 October 2026, covering 4,187 active roles across 36 tracked employers, to show who hires early-career candidates, what the roles look like and how to compete for them.
Key findings
- 336 active roles are tagged Junior or Internship, 8.1% of the 4,129 roles with a seniority label (Finjobsly data, 20 October 2026).
- 2,896 roles, or 70.1% of labelled roles, are Senior or above. Senior alone is 1,870 and Staff is 520.
- Toast has 56 entry-level roles, Stripe 53, Coinbase 34, Checkout.com 25, Block 19, Ramp 16, Brex 15, Robinhood 13, Tide 12 and Carta 11.
- The ten employers above account for 254 of the 336 entry-level roles, so early-career hiring is concentrated in a small group of companies.
How many entry-level fintech jobs are there?
As of 20 October 2026 Finjobsly tracks 336 active junior and internship roles. That is a real number of openings, but the mix matters more than the total. Fintech hiring in the tracked panel leans heavily towards experienced hires: for every junior or internship role there are roughly nine roles at Senior level or above. Candidates with no experience are competing for a thin slice of the market, and the slice is not spread evenly across employers.
The panel covers 36 employers, not the whole fintech sector, so these counts describe the companies we track. They are a reliable guide to where early-career hiring happens at large, well-known fintech employers, and a poor guide to small startups that do not post publicly.
Which fintech companies hire the most junior staff?
Toast leads with 56 entry-level roles, followed by Stripe with 53 and Coinbase with 34. Checkout.com (25), Block (19), Ramp (16), Brex (15), Robinhood (13), Tide (12) and Carta (11) complete the top ten. Stripe is also the largest employer in the panel overall, with 776 active roles, so its position here partly reflects its size. Toast stands out because its entry-level count is higher than Stripe's despite far fewer total roles (337).
If you are building a target list, start with these ten and check each careers page weekly. Browse the full list of tracked employers or see who is hiring this month.
What kinds of roles do junior candidates get?
Across the panel, engineering and sales dominate by volume: engineering titles make up 25.5% of all active roles and sales titles 21.8%. Entry-level hiring follows the same pattern, with sales development, customer success and support roles forming the usual first step into a fintech company, followed by junior engineering, analyst and operations positions. Roles in risk, compliance and legal are 307 of the 4,187 total and often ask for a relevant qualification even at junior level.
Titles to search for include associate, analyst, representative, coordinator, junior and intern. Skills that appear most often across all active roles are Payments (1,966 roles, 47.0%), Compliance (1,086, about 25.9%), Go (980), Python (700) and SQL (611). For a first role, SQL, Excel and a working knowledge of payments are the cheapest skills to show evidence of. See our guide to the most in-demand fintech skills.
Can you get an entry-level fintech job remotely?
Of the 3,142 roles that state a work style, 59.8% are remote, 32.5% hybrid and 7.8% onsite. A further 1,045 roles do not state one. Remote entry-level roles exist, but employers often prefer to onboard juniors in person, so treat the overall remote share as an upper bound for early-career openings. Our remote fintech jobs guide and the remote jobs page list current openings.
How do you stand out when only 8.1% of roles are junior?
Treat the numbers as a reason to be targeted rather than discouraged. Practical steps that fit the data:
- Apply to the ten employers with the most junior roles first, and set a weekly reminder to check them.
- Tailor your CV to the role's stated skills. Run it through the resume analyzer before applying.
- Look at adjacent routes. Customer success, support and sales development often lead into product, operations and risk roles inside the same company.
- Practise for interviews with the career coach.
- Read our guide to breaking into fintech as a student and the list of fintech jobs with no coding required.
What do entry-level fintech roles pay?
Only 1,491 of 4,187 active roles (35.6%) disclose a pay range, and the sample of junior roles with disclosed pay is too small to publish a reliable median. For context, the median midpoint for US engineering roles that disclose pay is $216,000 (n=354) and for UK roles in the panel the average advertised range runs from about £91,948 to £118,521 across 89 roles, but those figures are dominated by senior hires and should not be read as junior pay. Use the salary benchmark for role-level ranges.
FAQ
How many entry-level fintech jobs are open right now?
336 roles tagged Junior or Internship were active on Finjobsly on 20 October 2026, out of 4,129 roles with a seniority label.
Which companies hire the most entry-level fintech staff?
Toast (56), Stripe (53), Coinbase (34), Checkout.com (25) and Block (19) have the most entry-level roles in the Finjobsly panel.
Do I need to code to get a junior fintech role?
No. Sales, customer success, operations, compliance and finance roles are open to candidates without coding skills. Engineering titles are 25.5% of all roles, so the majority are not engineering.
Are there entry-level roles outside the US and UK?
Yes, the panel includes employers hiring in several countries. Browse the city pages to filter by location.
Methodology and data notes
Figures come from Finjobsly's tracked employer panel: 4,187 active roles at 36 employers on 20 October 2026. Seniority labels cover 4,129 roles. Percentages use that base unless stated. Work style percentages use the 3,142 roles that state one. Skill and job family shares are based on skills tags and title keywords, and one role can carry several skills. The panel covers the employers we track, not the whole market, and counts will change daily. Last updated: 20 October 2026. See the methodology page and browse live openings at fintech jobs.