CTO / VP Engineering - BeReal

BeReal.; Paris; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib

Premium healthcare coverage SideCare

Wellness activities

Job summary

BeReal is seeking an experienced engineering leader to head its BeReal tech organization. You will guide 12 squads across iOS, Android, and Backend, reporting directly to the CEO. The role focuses on app stability at scale, rapid squad delivery, and maintaining a tight control on infrastructure costs.

You will hire and develop engineers, set the technical strategy with product leadership, and ensure we maintain a high talent bar while shipping with speed and reliability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in engineering leadership, with experience guiding large teams.
• Proven ability to scale high-traffic consumer products or similar high-throughput systems.
• Architect-level depth and ability to align staff engineers on distributed-systems decisions.
• Strong track record building regression-prevention and distributed teamwork with metrics.
• Experience leading distributed teams via clear writing, metrics, and async decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Own stability of a system serving millions of users posting in a short window daily.
• Lead 12 squads across three codebases: iOS, Android, Backend; enforce release discipline and feature flags.
• Oversee infrastructure cost as a P&L line and optimize spend.
• Drive migration from Node.js to Go without slowing delivery.
• Hire, develop, and maintain a high-caliber engineering team.
• Set technical strategy with CEO and product leadership.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Staff-level depth

Team scaling

Technical strategy

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Datadog

BigQuery

Airflow

DBT

Amplitude

PostgreSQL

Redis

Pub/Sub

Go

Node.js

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

About Voodoo

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.

About Voodoo

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.

Team

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.

Role

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
• Set technical strategy with the CEO and product leadership

Our stack

GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, Fastly

• Go (some legacy Node.js), Cloud Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub
• Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin
• BigQuery, Airflow, DBT, Amplitude

Profile

• 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

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