About the Role
Voodoo creates mobile games and apps. Its VGP platform automates high-volume growth tasks, including distributing creatives across ad networks and campaigns, performance monitoring, and playable ad production.
Responsibilities
•Lead the technical direction and architecture for the squad's domain
•Drive design reviews, set coding standards, and ensure engineering excellence
•Own delivery of complex, cross-team technical initiatives
•Build, scale, and operate Node.js/TypeScript backend services on AWS/EKS
•Define the infrastructure and reliability strategy for the team's systems
•Partner with Product and Data to translate business goals into technical roadmaps
•Grow engineers through 1:1s, code reviews, mentorship, and technical coaching
•Identify systemic risks and drive improvements before they become incidents
•Promote an engineering culture of psychological safety, pragmatism, and craft
Requirements
•7+ years of professional software engineering experience
•2+ years of experience leading an engineering team, formally or informally
•Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js
•Good knowledge of industry best practices, including SOLID, KISS, YAGNI, DDD, and TDD
•Proven ability to own and deliver large technical projects with cross-team dependencies
•Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
•Track record of growing engineers and building high-performing teams
•Ability to balance delivery speed with long-term technical health
Nice to Have
•Advanced PostgreSQL
•VueJS or frontend architecture
•AWS infrastructure
•Infrastructure-as-code at scale
•Observability and SRE practices
•Experience in a hyper-growth or gaming/consumer product company
•Platform engineering or developer experience
Benefits
•Competitive salary based on experience
•Swile lunch voucher
•Gymlib membership fully covered by Voodoo
•Premium healthcare coverage with SideCare, fully covered for you and your family
•Wellness activities in the Paris office
•Remote Fridays
