Voodoo
CTO / VP Engineering - BeReal
6d ago
EuropeC-levelRemoteiosandroidbackendinfrastructurescalabilityfeature flagsdeveloper experience
Lead the engineering organization of BeReal, managing multiple squads and codebases to ensure app stability, scalability, and cost control.
Conditions
- Competitive salary upon experience
- Swile Lunch voucher
- Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)
- Premium healthcare coverage SideCare, for your family 100% borne by Voodoo
- Wellness activities in our Paris office
Other
- Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.
- BeReal stands for authenticity in social media: one notification a day, unfiltered photos and videos, real friends. 40M+ people use BeReal every month, and they all post at the same moment. Since joining Voodoo, BeReal has returned to growth with a healthy business model and $50M in revenue this year. The opportunity is clear: people want an alternative to Instagram and TikTok. Our ambition is to make BeReal the leader in authentic social, used by hundreds of millions.
- You will lead BeReal’s engineering organization: 12 squads, around 80 people across tech and product, three codebases (iOS, Android, Backend). You will report directly to BeReal’s CEO. Your mandate: app stability at spike scale, faster squads without regressions, infrastructure cost under control, and a higher talent bar.
- What you'll do:
- Own the stability of a system where millions of users post within the same two minutes, every day
- Run 12 squads across three codebases: release discipline, feature flags, platform, developer experience
- Own infrastructure cost as a P&L line: GCP, Cloud Spanner, media delivery at scale
- Complete our Node.js to Go migration without slowing delivery
- Hire exceptional engineers, develop them, and hold the bar high
- Set technical strategy with the CEO and product leadership
- GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, Fastly · Go (some legacy Node.js), Cloud Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub · Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin · BigQuery, Airflow, DBT, Amplitude
- 12+ years in engineering, 6+ leading leaders, in organizations of 80–200+ engineers
- You scaled a high-traffic consumer product or comparable high-throughput infrastructure
- Architect-level depth: you hold your own with staff engineers on distributed-systems trade-offs. No coding test.
- You have built regression-prevention systems for many teams shipping in parallel
- You lead distributed teams through clear writing, metrics, and fast async decisions
- A plus: consumer social, camera or media products, native mobile organizations