Head of Backend Engineer

About the Company

Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. With 800 employees and 7 billion downloads, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide. Their portfolio includes chart-topping games and popular apps like BeReal and Wizz.

Responsibilities

• Lead the backend team of 4 Senior Backend Engineers and define the technical strategy
• Own the backend architecture to ensure scalability, performance, and reliability for millions of users
• Collaborate with product teams to influence decisions with a technical perspective
• Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable backend systems, including safety and moderation features
• Integrate and manage third-party services such as analytics and cloud tools
• Define best practices in reliability, observability, and infrastructure management
• Improve system performance for high-traffic distributed systems

Requirements

• 5+ years of excellent back-end programming experience
• Proficiency in Node.js
• Professional expertise in GCP or AWS
• Experience building APIs
• Experience with high traffic and distributed systems architectures
• Fluency in French
• Passion for the mobile consumer industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the Wizz tech stack (Fastify, Socket.io, Go, Firebase, MongoDB, Redis)
• Track record with social media applications
• DevOps skills including Terraform or CloudFormation