Tax-free shopping, payments, and post-purchase solutions for global retail
Global Blue operates a payments and tax-compliance platform serving retail and e-commerce businesses across 53 countries. The tech stack reveals a legacy-heavy architecture (SQL, .NET, C#, Oracle) layered with modern tooling (Angular, REST, Azure DevOps), and active project work on gateway integrations, refunding systems, and customs platforms signals ongoing infrastructure modernization. Pain points around SOX compliance, refund errors, and legacy invoicing replacement indicate a company managing both regulatory complexity and technical debt while scaling transaction volume.
Global Blue is a public payments and retail-enablement company headquartered in Switzerland with over 2,000 employees across 53 countries. The business originated in tax-free shopping (processing over 40 million transactions annually) and has expanded into payment processing, dynamic currency conversion, and post-purchase e-commerce solutions. The company serves retailers, payment partners, and logistics operators; its post-purchase platform reaches over 52 million e-commerce shoppers globally. Recent hiring is weighted toward sales (41 open roles) and engineering (16), with active projects focused on point-of-sale integrations, customs authority connectivity, and self-service kiosk systems.
Tax-free shopping, payments processing, and post-purchase solutions for retail and e-commerce. Processes 40M+ tax-free transactions and 64M+ payment transactions annually across 53 countries.
Core: SQL, .NET, C#, ASP.NET, Angular. Analytics: Splunk, Tableau, MicroStrategy. Infrastructure: Azure DevOps, Windows Server, Active Directory. Adopting: mobile platforms (iOS, Android). Migrating away from Oracle.
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