Tech Lead

Who we are

Worldline helps businesses of all shapes and sizes to accelerate their growth journey - quickly, simply, and securely. We are the innovators at the heart of the payments technology industry, shaping how the world pays and gets paid. Our technology powers the growth of millions of businesses across 5 continents. And just as we help our customers accelerate their business, we are committed to helping our people accelerate their careers. Together, we shape the evolution.

The opportunity

As a Tech Lead within Risk Technology Services, you move beyond individual development to orchestrating the technical strategy of our platform. You will own the architectural integrity of our services, mentor the engineers who build them, and serve as the primary technical interface for our business stakeholders. We are looking for a leader who balances hands-on technical excellence with the pragmatism required to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient software in a high-velocity environment.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Architectural Stewardship: Define the long-term technical roadmap. Own high-level design decisions-service boundaries, cross-service contracts, and data models-ensuring they align with both business objectives and engineering best practices.

• Team Enablement: Lead, mentor, and foster a culture of technical excellence. Empower team members through constructive code reviews, design critiques, and active professional development.
• Operational Leadership: Translate complex business requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions. Act as the technical point of contact for Product and cross-functional leadership.
• Delivery Governance: Manage technical debt and drive initiatives for system reliability and performance. Champion resilience patterns, automated testing, and secure-by-design principles across the team.
• Engineering Standards: Establish and maintain high-bar coding standards, security protocols, and CI/CD practices. Lead complex incident investigations to ensure platform stability.
• Strategic Innovation: Stay ahead of industry trends and cloud-native advancements, advocating for the adoption of new technologies where they drive tangible business value.

Who are we looking for

Technical Competencies

• Backend Mastery: Deep expertise in modern Java (LTS) and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Security, OAuth2/JWT).
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Proven experience in AWS (or GCP/Azure). You possess a platform mindset, with hands-on experience in containerization (Docker, ECS/EKS) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Data & Integration: Advanced relational database experience (PostgreSQL/Oracle), including schema migration strategies (Flyway) and complex query optimization. Proficient in designing event-driven, asynchronous architectures.
• Observability & Resilience: Deep understanding of distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (OpenTelemetry, Datadog/CloudWatch). Proven ability to design for failure (circuit breakers, idempotency, retries).
• AI-Augmented Development: Extensive experience leveraging AI coding assistants and CLI tools to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality and security.

Experience & Requirements

• Proven Leadership: 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a clear trajectory of taking ownership in technical leadership roles.
• Strategic Maturity: Ability to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders. You possess the "quiet confidence" to influence decision-making and the pragmatism to know when not to add complexity.
• Delivery Mindset: Demonstrated success in managing full-cycle software delivery within an Agile environment.
• Mentorship: A genuine interest in growing junior and mid-level talent. You make the team better simply by raising the bar for the work they produce.
• Communication: Exceptional English proficiency, with the ability to lead meetings, document architectural decisions, and foster cross-functional collaboration.

• Regulated Industry Experience: Experience working in a regulated industry is a strong advantage, particularly familiarity with KYC, AML, and customer due diligence principles, as well as integrating with external data aggregators and screening services.

Perks & Benefits

At Worldline you’ll get the chance to be at the heart of the global payments technology industry and shape how the world pays and gets paid. On top of that, you will also:

• Private medical & life insurance
• MyBenefit Platform
• Holiday allowance
• Public transportation allowance
• Meal allowance
• Annual bonus

Pursuant to the Article 24 sec. 6 of the Act of 14 June 2024 on the protection of whistleblowers, we inform you that Worldline Financial Services (Europe) S.A., a joint-stock company, Branch in Poland (hereinafter referred to as Worldline) is governed by the Regulations on the receipt of internal reports and taking follow-up actions (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations).

Shape the evolution

We are on an exciting journey towards the next frontiers of payments technology, and we look for big thinkers, people with passion, can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow. Here you'll work with ambitious colleagues from around the world, take on unique challenges as a team, and make a real impact on the society. With an empowering culture, strong technology and extensive training opportunities, we help you accelerate your career - wherever you decide to go. Join our global team of 18,000 innovators and shape a tomorrow that is yours to own.

Learn more about life at Worldline at jobs.worldline.com

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or any applicable legally protected characteristics.