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.
TeamBeReal 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.
RoleYou 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
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
Profile12+ 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
Skills Required
- 12+ years in engineering
- 6+ years leading leaders
- Experience leading organizations of ~80-200+ engineers
- Experience scaling high-traffic consumer products or high-throughput infrastructure
- Architect-level depth in distributed systems and trade-offs
- Built regression-prevention systems for many teams shipping in parallel
- Experience leading distributed teams with strong async communication, metrics, and clear writing
- Familiarity with the listed stack (GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, Fastly, Go, Cloud Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub, Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin, BigQuery, Airflow, DBT, Amplitude)
- Experience completing large migrations (e.g., Node.js to Go) without slowing delivery
- Experience in consumer social, camera/media products, or native mobile orgs
What We Do
BeReal is a new kind of photo sharing app where you spontaneously share your real life with your friends. Every day at a different time, everyone is notified simultaneously to capture and share a photo within 2 minutes. Without filters, followers & likes. Only your friends for real.
