French e-commerce platform with integrated logistics, marketplace, and payments
Cdiscount operates a vertically integrated e-commerce business across marketplace, logistics, advertising, and payments — anchored by a Java/Spring Boot + React stack running on PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Kafka. Heavy hiring in logistics and operations (16 of 45 roles) reflects their core constraint: managing high-volume order throughput, warehouse scaling, and parcel sorting at a 7-million-customer, 10,000-seller scale. Stack migration from Talend and SAP toward Python suggests internal moves toward leaner data pipelines.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Product Supply Chain, Logistics Team Lead
Cdiscount is a French e-commerce leader founded in 1998, now operating as the primary brand within Cnova holding alongside four B2B subsidiaries: Octopia (marketplace solutions), C-Logistics (e-commerce logistics), Peaksys (technology), and CnovaPay (payments). The platform serves 7 million customers, hosts 10,000 sellers, and processes 2.7 billion euros in annual transaction volume. Operations span three logistics hubs and ~2,000 employees across Bordeaux, Saint-Étienne, and Paris. The business model combines direct retail, a third-party seller marketplace, in-house logistics, and retail-media advertising services.
Backend: Java, Spring Boot, FastAPI, Python. Frontend: React. Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, Kafka. Cloud: Azure DevOps, GitHub Copilot. Adopting Python; migrating away from Talend and SAP.
Approximately 2,000 employees across Bordeaux, Saint-Étienne, and Paris, distributed among the holding company and its five main operating entities.
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