CTO / VP Engineering - BeReal

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

• 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