The fintech hiring more analysts and associates than engineers after cutting heads

Checkout.com has struggled with layoffs in the past few years but is entering a new era. The payments fintech's CEO Guillaume Pousaz said today that Checkout is anticipating 30% growth in 2025, and that headcount is expected to grow 15%. Checkout is hiring again. There are currently 133 openings at the fintech, but not many are in tech.

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Checkout.com has just 22 roles in technology (19 of which are engineers) and nine in product. There are still interesting opportunities; Checkout is hiring a full-stack engineer for its "AI centre of excellence", which it appears to have quietly launched, working on "use cases for Generative AI that drive business value and innovation." Pousaz said in a letter today that Checkout is "continually invest[ing] in R&D, machine learning, and AI."

Checkout wants analysts and associates, but not to do banking jobs. Current analyst openings are all within the firm's operations team, while associate openings are in its finance team. Many of the analyst jobs are in....Mauritius.

Checkout is also running a summer internship program in its London office in 2025, and is interviewing candidates from January to March, although applications for this have now closed. Interns will be working in its product, operations and people teams.

Checkout grew its headcount by 12% last year, but it wasn't all about hiring. The fintech made multiple rounds of layoffs over a 16-month period, while its call for staff to spend an extra day in the office per week had a divisive reception.

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