Development Lead

Location: Beeston, UK (hybrid)

This is Worldline.

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

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Development Lead for our Transport Retail division to The successful candidate will be based in our Beeston, UK office and will report to the Senior Project Manager.   

Day-to-Day Responsibilities​

• Design, develop, and deploy applications using modern .NET) and C# best practices.
• Lead technical implementation, ensuring deliverability, scalability, and code quality.
• Align the engineering roadmap with business objectives and long-term product vision.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable technical plans.
• Act as the technical voice during planning and refinement sessions.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to automate deployments and streamline development workflows.
• Use Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC), provisioning and managing cloud resources (AWS).
• Conduct peer code reviews and offer constructive feedback to uphold quality standards and shared practices.
• Mentor junior developers to foster an inclusive, collaborative, and growth-oriented engineering culture.
• Engineer robust software for self-service kiosks, enabling seamless interaction with peripheral hardware (e.g. payment devices, scanners, printers), with built-in self-recovery mechanisms to handle operational anomalies without human intervention.
• Troubleshoot and optimize application performance in production environments.
• Champion test-driven development (TDD) and maintain a robust test automation strategy to ensure software reliability, scalability, and maintainability across environments.
• Awareness of broader Worldline engineering initiatives

Who Are We Looking For

We're after bold thinkers—people who inspire positive change, thrive in ambiguity, and bring curiosity, grit, and a hunger to grow. In practice, this looks like:

• Strong experience designing and building scalable full-stack applications using modern .NET and Vue.js.
• Experience building fault-tolerant software for kiosk-based systems, with the ability to anticipate and programmatically recover from unpredictable hardware or environmental edge cases.
• Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, embracing both engineering excellence and UX impact.
• Passion for crafting innovative, user-centred solutions that solve meaningful problems.
• Proven problem-solving skills with an ability to navigate complex systems and deliver elegant performance improvements.
• You master the principles of DevOps, utilising tools like Azure DevOps for CI/CD, and Terraform for infrastructure as code to streamline development and deployment processes.
• Skilled in software architecture for distributed systems, with cloud experience across AWS and GCP, leveraging Terraform and Azure DevOps to streamline delivery, while incorporating messaging patterns, telemetry/observability, and RESTful API design for robust, maintainable applications.
• Commitment to engineering excellence through practices like TDD, continuous integration testing, and maintaining high test coverage across codebases.

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:

• Be part of a company guided by a strong purpose to do good and recognized as top 1% of the most sustainable companies in all sectors worldwide.
• Work with inspiring colleagues and be empowered to learn, grow and accelerate your career.
• Have 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (possibility to buy more days off through salary sacrifice)
• Emergency time off: up to 5 paid days
• Private medical insurance with AXA - you can add family member coverage through salary sacrifice
• Doctor at Hand Service (online GP service) for online consultation
• Pension scheme: Up to 10% matching via salary sacrifice
• Income protection scheme: 67% of base salary for 5 years 
• Life Insurance: 1 x salary if not in a pension scheme, 4 x salary if joins the pension scheme
• Access to discounts and cash backs on shopping

Shape the evolution.

We are pushing towards the next frontiers of payments technology, and we look for big thinkers to join our journey. 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. And with our empowering culture, strong technology and extensive training opportunities, we help you accelerate your career. Wherever you decide to go. Join our global team of over 18,000 innovators across 40+ countries, 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 (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or any applicable legally protected characteristics.

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