CTO - BeReal

United States Digital Space LLC; Paris; Sur place; EUR 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib

Premium healthcare coverage SideCare

Wellness activities in Paris office

Résumé du poste

Voodoo in Paris is seeking an exceptional technologist to define the next generation of the company’s technology. You will work with top engineers, challenge technical decisions across Mobile and Backend, lead major transformations, and shape how AI transforms coding, testing, and tooling.

You will report directly to the CEO and partner with engineering leadership on the company’s most important bets. The stack includes Go, Kotlin, Swift, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, Datadog,

Qualifications

• Architect-level depth and ability to challenge senior engineers.
• Deep native mobile engineering knowledge (iOS/Android).
• 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.
• Strong production judgment on reliability, performance and scale.
• Practical view on AI applied to software engineering.

Responsabilités

• Define the company's long-term technical direction across Mobile, Backend, Data and infrastructure.
• Lead the transformation of a large native mobile application with legacy architecture.
• Set technical principles enabling fast delivery without sacrificing reliability or maintainability.
• Challenge hard technical decisions alongside Staff/Principal engineers.
• Raise technical standards across the organization without centralizing every decision.
• Ensure reliability under high traffic from tens of millions of users.
• Guide major migrations and decide when to evolve incrementally vs rewrite.
• Define how AI transforms coding, testing, migrations, architecture and tooling.
• Partner with the CEO and engineering leadership on the company's most important technical bets.

Connaissances

Architect depth

Mobile engineering

Backend systems

Legacy migrations

Engineering leadership

AI for software

High-scale systems

Product sense

Description du poste

About VoodooFounded 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 the company and Wizz.

TeamBeReal stands for authenticity in social media: one notification a day, unfiltered photos and videos, real friends. 40M+ people use the company every month, and they all post at the same moment. Since joining Voodoo, the company 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 the company the leader in authentic social, used by hundreds of millions.

RoleWe are looking for an exceptional technologist to define the next generation of the company's technology.

You will go deep with our strongest engineers, challenge technical decisions across Mobile and Backend, lead major transformations, raise the technical level of the organization, and define how AI changes the way the company engineers build software.

You report directly to the company's CEO.

What you'll do:

• Define the company'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 the company 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 the company's most important technical bets.

Our stackGCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, Fastly Go (some legacy Node.js), Cloud Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin BigQuery, Airflow, DBT, Amplitude

Profile 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.

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