Fintech in IT — global market
Fintech engineers build payment gateways, card processing, core banking, anti-fraud and trading systems — software where an error of one cent becomes an incident and every transaction has to reconcile in the ledger. Zorky currently tracks 24 553 open tech jobs in Fintech; the leading countries are the US (45%), Poland (12%), the UK (11%) and India (10%). The most common directions are backend, data, fullstack and DevOps. Below: the technologies and roles employers in this industry ask for, and what to learn on top of the stack to get hired.
Salary distribution
The distribution uses postings with an explicit salary; there are fewer of them than all postings in the industry.
Hiring geography
The US leads by the number of openings in this industry. Shares count postings with an identified country; remote positions are often open to candidates elsewhere.
Industry tech stack
Postings in this industry most often name Python, SQL, AWS, Java and Kubernetes. The number next to each technology is how many postings mention it.
Who's hired
The industry hires more than developers: the top directions are backend, data, fullstack and DevOps.
What to know to work in Fintech
Much of the stack is shared across industries. What sets this one apart is the domain knowledge interviewers expect:
- double-entry bookkeeping and reconciliation — how money balances across systems
- idempotency: retrying a payment without charging twice
- PCI DSS rules for storing card data
- KYC/AML: customer checks and suspicious-transaction monitoring
- exact money arithmetic: decimal types instead of float, rounding, currencies