Q3 2026 Hiring Report
Open jobs each week of the quarter, pulled directly from company career pages. Pick a company or a function to see its own numbers.
Fintech companies
The leading fintech companies, such as Stripe, Block, Affirm, Coinbase, and Nubank. The group is drawn from the Forbes Fintech 50, the F-Prime Fintech Index, and Andreessen Horowitz's Fintech portfolio, plus McCoy's lists of climate fintech and other fintech companies.
Open jobs
Across companies: 21 of 27 grew, 6 shrank. The median company changed +24%. The 5 biggest gainers account for 73% of the growth.
Open jobs, top 6 functions
Top hirers by jobs added
| Company | Trend | Added | Closed | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 754 | 534 | 507 → 727 | ||
| 675 | 625 | 338 → 388 | ||
| 583 | 485 | 151 → 249 | ||
 Block | 249 | 232 | 218 → 235 | |
| 237 | 211 | 161 → 187 | ||
 Coinbase | 228 | 137 | 136 → 227 | |
| 227 | 190 | 147 → 184 | ||
| 221 | 211 | 99 → 109 | ||
 Robinhood | 206 | 171 | 131 → 166 | |
 Ramp | 144 | 87 | 95 → 152 | |
| 135 | 106 | 47 → 76 | ||
 Shopify | 128 | 131 | 37 → 34 | |
 SoFi | 123 | 156 | 100 → 67 | |
 Plaid | 122 | 95 | 94 → 121 | |
| 96 | 69 | 23 → 50 | ||
 Alkami | 95 | 83 | 51 → 63 | |
 Klarna | 92 | 97 | 102 → 97 | |
 Chime | 88 | 85 | 68 → 71 | |
 Mercury | 88 | 72 | 49 → 65 | |
 BILL Holdings | 87 | 75 | 30 → 42 | |
 Carta | 85 | 57 | 39 → 67 | |
| 69 | 142 | 113 → 40 | ||
 nCino | 64 | 72 | 36 → 28 | |
 Rogo | 53 | 14 | 41 → 80 | |
 Runway | 33 | 28 | 31 → 36 |
By function
| Function | Trend | Added | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 1,328 | +41% | |
| Engineering | 1,102 | +25% | |
| Operations | 765 | +24% | |
| Customer Success | 249 | +35% | |
| Marketing | 236 | +5% | |
| Data | 196 | +48% | |
| Finance | 191 | −2% | |
| Product Management | 167 | −3% | |
| Legal | 162 | +56% | |
| Design | 80 | +22% | |
| Business Development | 71 | – | |
| Project Management | 71 | – | |
| Security | 46 | – | |
| Infrastructure | 32 | – | |
| Research | 25 | – | |
| People | 23 | – | |
| Consulting | 22 | – | |
| Executive | 4 | – | |
| Other | 156 | – |
By seniority
Jul 1
Sep 30
- Intern & entry5% → 8%
- Early career (1-3 yrs)17% → 20%
- Senior (3-6 yrs)26% → 26%
- Staff / Lead (6-10 yrs)16% → 17%
- Principal+ (10+ yrs)5% → 3%
- Manager14% → 14%
- Director & above4% → 4%
- Not specified13% → 8%
| Level | Trend | Open | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 5 → 79 | 2% | – | |
| Entry (new grad) | 139 → 209 | 6% | +50% | |
| Early career (1-3 yrs) | 491 → 730 | 20% | +49% | |
| Senior (3-6 yrs) | 754 → 924 | 26% | +23% | |
| Staff / Lead (6-10 yrs) | 475 → 621 | 17% | +31% | |
| Principal+ (10+ yrs) | 142 → 101 | 3% | −29% | |
| Manager | 395 → 501 | 14% | +27% | |
| Director | 89 → 131 | 4% | +47% | |
| VP | 13 → 11 | 0% | – | |
| C-Suite | 5 → 3 | 0% | – | |
| Not specified | 386 → 287 | 8% | −26% |
By location
In the US: 1,660 → 2,121 (+28%). Outside the US: 1,040 → 1,236 (+19%).
| Metro area | Trend | Open | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Bay Area | 363 → 419 | +15% | |
| New York City | 314 → 418 | +33% | |
| London | 131 → 163 | +24% | |
| Chicago | 54 → 91 | +69% | |
| Seattle | 54 → 87 | +61% | |
| Toronto | 66 → 87 | +32% | |
| Bengaluru | 87 → 73 | −16% | |
| Mexico City | 51 → 50 | −2% | |
| São Paulo | 23 → 39 | – | |
| Sydney | 27 → 36 | – | |
| Dublin | 29 → 34 | – | |
| Stockholm | 41 → 29 | – | |
| Other or not specified | 1,276 → 1,722 | +35% |
About the data
- These are open job postings on company career pages, not hires. An open role can stay up for weeks before someone is hired.
- Every number covers the 27 companies we tracked for all of Q3 2026, so each week compares the same companies. 167 more were added during the quarter and are left out, since we don't have their count from the start of the quarter.
- Some companies list the same role in several cities, and each listing counts. For location, a job listed in several places counts once, under the first location the company lists.
- 53% of open jobs at the end of the quarter are outside the metro areas we map, or don't list a location we can read. They show as Other or not specified.
- 240 open jobs at the end of the quarter don't list a country we can read, so they are in neither the US nor the outside-the-US count.
- Jobs are grouped by function using each posting's title and description.
- Q3 2026 is our first full quarter of tracking, so there is no earlier quarter to compare with yet.
- We pull open roles directly from company career pages, refreshed daily, using only public sources and honoring each site's crawler preferences. More in our methodology.