Global payments infrastructure for merchants and financial institutions
Worldline operates a large-scale, multi-region payments platform serving over one million businesses. The tech stack reveals a hybrid modernization effort: legacy backbone (COBOL, IBM i, Oracle) paired with cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL), while actively migrating workloads to GCP and replacing Oracle Database. Engineering hiring (227 roles) dominates the 572 open positions, with concurrent focus on compliance, fraud, and CI/CD automation—typical of regulated fintech infrastructure scaling globally across 24+ countries.
Notable leadership hires: Team Lead, Pricing & FX Head, Sales Director, Accounting Director, Data & IA team lead
Worldline is a publicly traded French payments company headquartered in Puteaux. The business processes payments for merchants, financial institutions, and mobile operators across merchant services, e-commerce, and financial processing. With 10,001+ employees and active hiring in 24 countries, the company operates regional payment rails and settlement infrastructure. Current roadmap priorities include fraud risk management, PCI DSS compliance, master-data simplification, ERP improvements, and large-scale cloud migration—reflecting the operational complexity of managing legacy payment systems while building modern cloud-based issuance and processing backends.
Core systems: Java, SQL, COBOL, IBM i, Oracle, .NET, C#. Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP (under adoption). DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitLab, AWS Lambda. Data: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB. Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, SonarQube.
Large-scale project migration to Google Cloud Platform is an active initiative. Concurrently adopting PostgreSQL, Web Application Firewall, Prometheus, and phasing out Oracle Database in favor of cloud-native infrastructure.
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