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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 Wizz backend team of four Senior Backend Engineers and own the team strategy. • Own the backend architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability for millions of users. • Collaborate closely with product teams to 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 the backend infrastructure to support rapid product iterations, responsible growth, and a safe environment for users. • Improve system performance and scalability, with a focus on high-traffic distributed systems.

🎯 Requirements

• Passion for the mobile consumer industry • Fluency in French • Strong back-end development skills with 5+ years of experience • Interest in vanilla Node.js • Professional experience 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 • Track record working on a social media application is a plus • DevOps skills (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) are a plus

🏖️ Benefits

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