10 fintech internship programs hiring in 2026: Earn $2,000+ weekly at Stripe, Coinbase and beyond
Not all internships in finance are found at an investment bank or trading firm. If you prefer to work at a smaller start-up or scale-up, plenty of fintechs have summer internship programs for 2026. We've looked at a variety of top fintechs in the US and the UK to compile a list of 10 fintech internship programs you ought to consider if you're a student looking for your next gig.
Revolut
Revolut is leading the charge for fintech internships in Europe with its Rev-celerator program. It took in 140 interns and graduates last summer, and is planning to bring in 200-300 next year. The internship program lasts for 10 weeks and gives students roles across the engineering, product, IT and operations departments of Revolut.
You'll need to act fast if you want one; we're midway through its application window that runs from June to December. The recruitment window has also begun this month, and ends in January.
Be warned, getting into Rev-celerator won't be easy. The firm has already received over 45,000 applications for just those few hundred roles. Its acceptance rate is already lower than Goldman Sachs' summer analyst program and may fall lower still by the time the application window closes.
Coinbase
Coinbase has one of the most comprehensive internship programs in fintech when it comes to the variety of roles available. There are 29 different internships on offer across multiple divisions including UI, tax, compliance, engineering, recruitment and even in HR support for the firm's M&A team.
The catch is that the vast majority of internships are available in the US. Outside the states, Coinbase is hiring compliance interns in the UK and engineering interns in both India and Singapore... but that's it.
Internships in the US happen to be very well paid. Many of its technical internships pay up to $2400 per week, including internships in machine learning, product design and user research. It's not clear how many interns Coinbase recruits but, according to LinkedIn profiles, more than 100 students claim to have interned at the firm this year.
Stripe
Stripe's intern program is a lot more limited than Coinbase's in terms of variety of roles, but it still recruits on a massive scale. More than 100 students say they interned there this year, the majority of which did so as software engineers.
Stripe's software engineer internship program is available in the US, Canada, India, Singapore, Ireland and Romania. Pay varies massively from region to region; US interns can earn up to $2375 per week, while interns in its Dublin HQ earn €1015 ($1175) and Singaporean interns earn just 1385 SGD ($1066). In the US, Stripe hires both Summer and Winter interns, who work on projects like "rebuilding our statistics aggregation service [and] building new service discovery systems."
Stripe offers a number of other specialist internships as well. For example, a PhD data science intern in Toronto can earn over $2000 per week while a PhD machine learning intern in the US can earn up to $3106 per week.
Grab
Singapore's largest fintech also happens to run a yearly internship program, albeit smaller than those discussed previously. We've seen over 15 students claiming to have interned at Grab in Singapore this year, working across various functions including data analysis, engineering, HR and sales.
Currently available internships are all non-technical, however. They include multiple internships in social media marketing and an internship in operations. One internship in Grab's strategy team does expect you to use Python, though.
Ramp
New York based payments fintech Ramp offers some of the highest paying internships in fintech to undergraduates. Most engineering internships in its New York headquarters pay over $11k per month.
Ramp's summer internship programs are a bit longer, lasting between 12 and 16 weeks from May to August. While the firm is reportedly pushing for staff to spent more time in the office, these internships have a hybrid arrangement. Be warned, it's supposedly a pretty intense place to work, but for many employees, that's a positive. Interestingly, the firm also has an 'AI operations' internship available. It involves using low/no-code platforms like Zapier to prototype and test workflows at Ramp.
Robinhood
Another New York fintech, Robinhood, has openings for 14 seperate internships across both technical and non-technical roles. Most of these are US-based but a few are software development internships available in Toronto.
The highest paying internships at Robinhood aren't in New York; they're based in Menlo Park, California, working on application, web and backend engineering. These roles pay $48 per hour. Robinhood loves people being in the office, but you do get a few days to work from home; interns are expected to be in the office three days per week.
If you want to work at Robinhood, you'll need to know how to use AI coding tools, but CoPilot isn't enough. Earlier this year, CEO Vlad Tenev said Robinhood now uses the likes of Cursor and Windsurf rather than "autocomplete" coding tools, and that more than half of code written at Robinhood today is done by AI.
Block
Block, the $46bn fintech conglomerate founded by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, houses multiple fintechs you might know, including Square and CashApp. It's offering a number of engineering internships across the frontend, backend, mobile engineering and platform engineering.
Like Ramp, Block's internships run for up to 16 weeks, but are available in a variety of cities including Seattle, New York and Toronto, as well as being available remotely. Pay varies depending on where you're working. New York interns earn up to $51 per hour while, in Nashville, you earn a maximum of $43.
Gemini
Another major crypto exchange, Gemini, might be of interest to you if you want to work under the Winklevoss Twins. It's currently recruiting for both winter interns and spring interns in 2026 based in its New York headquarters. This year, more than 20 students said they interned at Gemini.
Like Robinhood, Gemini's internship is hybrid, requiring three days in the office per week. It happens to pay marginally better, offering an hourly rate of $50. Roles are available in both frontend and backend engineering.
Monzo
Revolut isn't the only digibank in the UK hiring interns. Monzo currently has internship openings in both data science and software engineering, each offering a pay of £769 ($1025) per week. Monzo's program appears to be much smaller than Revolut's at the moment. It calls its interns 'associate software engineers' which might infuriate you if you're an associate in software engineering at an investment bank.
Monzo also breaks down its tech stack in its job openings. Software engineers at the bank use Go, Kotlin and Swift for application development among other technologies. Data scientists primarily work in Python but also use SQL, Docker and excel.
Plaid
Payments infrastructure firm Plaid doesn't have any internships open right now, but it makes a yearly habit of shouting out top performers and their projects in its class of... 'plinterns'.
Interns at Plaid say they've had 1:1 meetings with the CTO, played pickup basketball with founder Zach Perret and went to see Broadway shows with the intern cohort. They also happen to do work; Anmol, an intern in Plaid's integrations platform team, said he worked on writing scalable Go systems and distributed systems and databases via TiDB.
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