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Voodoo

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501 - 1000 employees

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Gaming • Media • B2C

Voodoo is a global tech company known for entertaining the world through its iconic apps and games. The company creates engaging puzzle and strategy games that are easy to pick up, yet challenging to master. With a focus on fun that meets real stakes, Voodoo turns favorite games into competitions with cash rewards. It boasts over 7 billion downloads and 200 million monthly active users, generating $600 million in revenue as of 2023. Voodoo empowers bold creators to bring their ideas to life, working alongside creative minds, content creators, and technical innovators to shape future hits.

📋 Description

• Lead the backend team at Wizz, managing a team of 4 Senior Backend Engineers and owning the technical strategy • Own the backend architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability for millions of users • Collaborate closely with product teams to shape and influence product decisions from a strong technical perspective • Design, implement, deploy, and maintain highly scalable and highly available backend systems, including features that enhance user safety and content moderation • Integrate and manage third‑party services (e.g., analytics, moderation, cloud tools) to ensure a secure and seamless user experience • Define and promote best practices for reliability, observability, and infrastructure management • Contribute to the evolution of backend infrastructure to support rapid product iteration, responsible growth, and a safe environment for users • Improve system performance and scalability, particularly for high‑traffic distributed systems

🎯 Requirements

• Excellent back-end programming skills with 5+ years of experience • Interest and experience with vanilla Node.js • Professional expertise with GCP or AWS • Experience building APIs • Experience with high-traffic and distributed systems architectures • Familiarity with the services and technologies used in our stack • Experience with social media applications is a plus • DevOps skills (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) are a plus • Fluent in French

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience • Swile lunch voucher • Gymlib membership (100% covered by Voodoo) • Premium SideCare healthcare coverage for your family (100% covered by Voodoo) • Wellness activities in our Paris office • Unlimited vacation policy • Remote work days on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays