PayPal, Block, Visa, Coinbase, and Intuit have all cut roles in 2026, and every one of them named AI as part of the reason. If you've read the coverage, or our own breakdown of what the AI-driven cuts actually mean for your career, it's easy to walk away thinking fintech hiring has stopped. It hasn't. It's just concentrated in different places than it used to be, and the news cycle isn't built to cover a company quietly adding headcount the same way it covers one making cuts.
The other side of the 2026 story
Layoffs and hiring are running side by side this year, sometimes inside the same sector, sometimes at companies competing directly with each other. Adyen is the clearest example: the payments company added 249 net new employees in the first half of 2026 and is on track for its full-year target of 550 to 650 net new hires, roughly 12.5% headcount growth, according to its own earnings disclosures. That's not a company treading water. That's a company still building.
Adyen isn't alone. Stripe, Plaid, Ramp, Mercury, Wise, Revolut, Toast, Gusto, Rippling, SoFi, Chime, Nubank, Klarna, and Rho are all actively hiring in 2026, per KORE1's tracking of fintech hiring activity. Wise alone runs close to 6,500 employees across 11 locations and has more than 400 open roles right now, with a noticeable weight toward compliance, business development, and early-career programs. Revolut is hiring aggressively too, though a large share of that growth (roughly 1,600 roles) is going to its India offices as part of a plan to make India close to 40% of its global workforce by the end of 2026, so location matters as much as headline headcount when you're deciding where to look.
What's different about hiring at these companies right now
The growth isn't evenly spread across every function. It's concentrated in the same places our layoffs coverage identified as resilient: AI and ML engineering, payments infrastructure, cybersecurity, and what's increasingly being called "integrator" roles, people who combine technical depth with a domain like risk, compliance, or payments rather than staying narrowly specialized. Adyen's own hiring commentary points toward technical and go-to-market roles specifically, not company-wide expansion. If you're applying, tailoring your pitch to where the growth actually is will get you further than a generic application to "fintech" as a category.
Companies actively hiring right now
US-based or US-hiring
- Stripe — payments infrastructure, continuing to expand engineering and platform roles.
- Plaid — data connectivity and API infrastructure roles.
- Ramp — one of the more active hirers by open role volume in 2026, per KORE1.
- Mercury — banking infrastructure, frequently cited as remote-friendly.
- SoFi, Chime, Rho — consumer and business banking platforms with open roles across engineering and operations.
UK, Europe, and global
- Adyen — 550-650 net new hires targeted for 2026, technical and go-to-market focus.
- Wise — 400+ open roles, strong compliance and early-careers presence.
- Revolut — hiring aggressively, though check location carefully given the India-weighted expansion.
- Klarna, Nubank — continued international growth in engineering and product.
Company hiring status moves fast. Treat this as a starting list, not a guarantee, and confirm current openings directly on each company's careers page before you build an application strategy around it.
How to find and apply to these roles
Manually checking a dozen careers pages every week isn't a strategy, it's a part-time job. Set a job alert filtered to the specific functions where hiring is actually concentrated (AI/ML, payments infrastructure, compliance-adjacent engineering) rather than a broad "fintech jobs" alert that buries the signal in noise. Before you get to an offer conversation, check Finjobsly's salary benchmarking tool so you know what these roles actually pay at fintech companies specifically, not generic tech or traditional banking averages. And if you're trying to match your current skill set against which of these companies and roles actually fit, AI Job Matching does that filtering for you instead of you doing it by hand across fifteen different career sites.
For students and early-career candidates
Several of these companies run structured internship or new-grad programs, but which ones and when they open changes year to year, so verify directly on each company's careers page rather than assuming a program exists. Wise's early-career weighting noted above is a reasonable starting point if you're specifically looking for a company hiring at the entry level right now.
The bottom line
Fintech isn't in a single, uniform state in 2026. It's cutting in some places and growing in others, often for the same underlying reason: companies are being more deliberate about where headcount actually moves the business forward. If you're job hunting, that's useful information, not just background noise. Know which companies are growing, know which functions inside them are growing, and apply there instead of spreading effort evenly across a sector that isn't moving evenly itself.