Chief Technology Architect: AI-Driven Platform Scale

Voodoo; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)

Premium healthcare coverage SideCare,

Job summary

Voodoo seeks an exceptional technologist to define the next generation of BeReal's technology. You will work closely with BeReal's strongest engineers to lead major transformations across Mobile and Backend, and to define how AI changes the way BeReal engineers build software.

You report directly to BeReal's CEO and will set long-term technical direction, drive critical migrations, and raise technical standards across the organization to handle tens of millions of users with reliability and

Qualifications

• Exceptional technical track record.
• Architect-level depth; able to challenge excellent Staff / Principal engineers.
• Deep understanding of native mobile engineering.
• Strong Backend and distributed-systems fundamentals at consumer scale.
• Proven experience with significant legacy transformations.
• Evidence of raising the technical level of an engineering organization, not just designing systems personally.
• Strong production judgment: reliability, failure modes, performance and scale.
• Strong judgment around technical investment, prioritization and rewrite vs migration.
• Practical point of view on AI applied to software engineering.
• Experience with high-scale consumer products or comparable high-throughput systems.
• Strong product sense and excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Define BeReal's long-term technical direction across Mobile, Backend, Data and infrastructure.
• Lead the transformation of a large native mobile application carrying significant legacy architecture.
• Set technical principles that allow teams to move quickly without degrading reliability, performance or maintainability.
• Challenge the hardest technical decisions alongside Staff-level engineers.
• Raise technical standards across the organization without centralizing every decision.
• Ensure BeReal remains reliable under highly concentrated traffic spikes from tens of millions of users.
• Guide major migrations and decide when to evolve incrementally vs rewrite.
• Define how AI transforms coding, testing, debugging, migrations, architecture and developer tooling.
• Partner with the CEO and engineering leadership on BeReal's most important technical bets.

Skills

Architect-level depth

Backend fundamentals

Distributed systems

Mobile engineering

AI in software

Performance & reliability

Communication

Leadership

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Datadog

Fastly

Go

Node.js

Swift/SwiftUI

Kotlin

BigQuery

Airflow

DBT

Amplitude

PostgreSQL

Redis

Cloud Spanner

Job description

Voodoo seeks an exceptional technologist to define the next generation of BeReal's technology. You will work closely with BeReal's strongest engineers to lead major transformations across Mobile and Backend, and to define how AI changes the way BeReal engineers build software.

You report directly to BeReal's CEO and will set long-term technical direction, drive critical migrations, and raise technical standards across the organization to handle tens of millions of users with reliability and