Fintech hiring pockets
- Multiple fintechs posted hires and funding moves this week, keeping selective engineering roles open. - Openings include Tower Research freshers in Gurgaon, Trellis founding backend engineer, Circle senior roles, and Perpay hiring in Philly. - VC funding for startups like Pillar and visible listings suggest fintech still recruits backend engineers with payments and reliability experience ( ).
Fintech hiring has not snapped back across the board, but a cluster of firms is still adding engineers in payments, infrastructure and trading systems this week. (fintechfutures.com, perpay.com, job-boards.greenhouse.io) Perpay’s careers page lists Philadelphia roles including Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack; Software Engineer, New Grad; and a 2026 software engineering internship. The company says it operates from a riverfront Center City office and runs an invite-only “Super Day Series” for early-career hiring. (perpay.com) A separate job post highlighted Perpay’s Philadelphia engineering push on April 20, 2026, saying software-engineer pay can reach $160,000 depending on level. A ZipRecruiter listing for Perpay’s Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack role also showed $160,000. (studentscircles.com, ziprecruiter.com) Tower Research Capital’s live job board shows Gurgaon openings including Software Engineer I, Reliability Engineer II, ML Engineer and several quantitative trading roles. That mix points to demand for low-latency systems, machine learning and production reliability rather than broad-based consumer-fintech hiring. (job-boards.greenhouse.io) The pattern is similar at Circle, where current openings include senior engineering roles in site reliability, payments, infrastructure and live product systems. Recent job descriptions call for work on checkout flows, payment-provider integrations, real-time systems and platform performance. (job-boards.greenhouse.io, job-boards.greenhouse.io, job-boards.greenhouse.io) Fresh funding is helping keep some of those roles open. FinTech Futures reported on April 21 that Pillar raised $20 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, and TechCrunch reported the round on April 14, saying the company builds software to automate commodity and currency hedging. (fintechfutures.com, techcrunch.com) That matters because fintech employers are hiring around specific plumbing problems: moving money, keeping systems up, handling risk and scaling data-heavy products. The open roles that are visible now skew toward backend engineering, site reliability and product teams tied directly to payments or trading infrastructure. (job-boards.greenhouse.io, job-boards.greenhouse.io, perpay.com) The hiring is also uneven by stage. Perpay is still advertising new-grad and internship tracks, while Tower and Circle’s visible openings lean more senior or specialized, especially in reliability, infrastructure and payments-adjacent engineering. (perpay.com, job-boards.greenhouse.io, job-boards.greenhouse.io) Trellis appears to be hiring too, though the company’s public careers pages were not fully readable through search tools during reporting, so I could not independently verify the exact “founding backend engineer” listing from a primary source. What is verifiable this week is narrower but clear: fintech still has hiring pockets, and they are concentrated in engineers who can keep money-moving systems fast, stable and auditable. (trellis.finance, job-boards.greenhouse.io, perpay.com)
