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Voodoo
Voodoo

Senior Backend Software Engineer - Wizz

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
A few days at home
Experience: > 5 years

Voodoo
Voodoo

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Job description

Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 6 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.

The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL.

Voodoo is now a team of over 750 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to come and entertain the world with us.

Team

Our consumer apps teams are creating innovative and entertaining apps for everyday life. Our mission to entertain the world goes beyond gaming. The apps we create are downloaded and used by millions of people around the world, with a central focus on the US. 

You will work on Wizz, which is a social app for teens which currently has 1M+ daily active users in the US & UK. You will be part of 15 high-performing team members, and you will work together in goodwill to make Wizz scale.

In 2021 & 2022, we’ve worked extensively on Wizz product & engagement, our monetization, and tech so we’re ready to scale Wizz outside of the US & the UK.

Role

  • Design, implement, deploy and maintain highly-scalable and available backends for a social app used by millions of users
  • Contribute to shaping product
  • Contribute to best practices on reliability and availability
  • Contribute to the back-end overall infrastructure

    • Our stack

  • Language and libraries: Node.js, Fastify, Socket.io, Firebase
  • Databases: MongoDB, Redis
  • Infrastructure: Cloud Run, Cloud functions, Bucket, S3, CloudFront
  • Ops: Github Action, AWS CLI, Gcloud CLI, Docker, microservice architecture
  • iOS: XCode, GitHub, Cocoapods (public and private)

    • Profile

  • Excellent back-end programming skills (5+ years experience)
  • Interest in Node.JS
  • Professional GCP or AWS expertise 
  • Experience building APIs
  • Experience with high traffic and distributed systems architectures
  • Familiarity with services & technologies used in our Stack
  • Be fluent in French
  • Track record with successful highly-scalable backends is a plus
  • DevOps skills (Terraform, Cloud formation, …), are a plus

    • Benefits

  • 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
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  • Remote days on Mondays and Fridays

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