Worldline currently employs 9,400 people worldwide. The decision to recruit 1,500 new employees is in line with the company's ambition unveiled during its Investor Day on 3 October 2017, which saw notably a revised increase of the company's targets for the 2017-2019 period.

To meet both growing customer demand and the challenges presented by the digitalisation of services, Worldline is looking to recruit 1,500 new people to strengthen its existing teams.

More specifically, Worldline will be conducting its talent search to recruit developers, project managers, program directors, security and quality experts, database administrators, architects, systems and project engineers. A broad range of profiles that share one thing in common: the wish to invest oneself in an international market leader who is constantly evolving and working on innovative solutions.

Worldline's broad positioning enables it to provide a wide range of offers covering different sectors: IoT, public sector, digital banking, e-commerce, transport.

Gilles Grapinet, CEO of the Worldline Group, said: "Recruiting 1,500 people to join Worldline worldwide illustrates our wish to consolidate our position as the European leader in payment and digital services and to be a major player in a fundamental trend taking place in our societies: the rapid rise of digital payment methods. Joining Worldline also means seizing the opportunity to work on technologies that are at the heart of the digital revolution, providing among the most advanced secure payments solutions to our customers, and contributing to the emergence of innovations that are transforming our world on a daily basis."

Patrice Gry, Director of Human Resources at the Worldline Group, said: "Worldline is in full growth and we're offering 1,500 candidates the chance to join a company whose HR policy is based around the motto: build your career and grow with us. We'll be recruiting juniors who we'll train, as well as experts who'll bring their skills; everyone progress and evolve at the same time than Worldline. We continuously develop our expertise internally so that we are always in a position to innovate and offer new solutions to our customers. In addition, joining Worldline means working in a responsible company, which prioritises workplace wellbeing and has incorporated this into its Corporate Social Responsibility program TRUST 2020."