Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - BeReal

BeReal.; Paris; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib

Premium healthcare coverage SideCare

Wellness activities in Paris office

Résumé du poste

BeReal, supported by Voodoo, is expanding its backend to scale to hundreds of millions of users. We seek a backend engineer with strong Go skills and experience building high-volume APIs in distributed systems.

You will join a tiny, autonomous team of world-class engineers and help shape critical infrastructure for our social app. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship new features quickly, analyze trade-offs, and address architectural challenges as BeReal grows in

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working on API on distributed architecture.
• Proven experience in Go and developing high volume API microservices.
• Self-reliant and have prior experience in a startup or similar environment.
• Value teamwork and thrive on challenges.
• Proficient in English as our team is diverse and international.
• Master degree in computer science or related field.
• Highly motivated to embark on an exciting and challenging journey.

Responsabilités

• Tackle backend scalability challenges, given a product with spikes of millions of users.
• Contribute to the development of a robust architecture supporting massive scale as we expand to new countries.
• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to create new features for the app.
• Analyze trade-offs and address technical challenges related to key components of our backend.
• Participate in code and design reviews.

Connaissances

Go

Distributed architecture

API design

Teamwork

English

Startup experience

Formation

Master's degree in Computer Science

Description du poste

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.

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

At BeReal, we are dedicated to authenticity in social media. By encouraging users to share unfiltered moments, we foster genuine connections and celebrate real life. We are now an international team of 100+ and have 40M+ monthly active users. Backed by Voodoo, our team is fully focused on scaling BeReal into an iconic social network used by hundreds of millions.

Role

We’ve built BeReal with a tiny technology team of world-class engineers and we intend to keep this mindset as we scale it to hundreds of millions of users. To achieve this, we ship new features faster than any other scaled social network while upgrading our infrastructure. We work in small teams of generalists and give each engineer high autonomy to make product related decisions.

• Tackle exciting technical challenges, given the nature of our product, which experiences spikes of millions of users connecting within a 2-minute window.
• Contribute to the development of a robust architecture capable of supporting massive scale as we attract new users and expand to new countries.
• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to create new features for the app.
• Analyze trade-offs and address technical challenges related to key components of our backend.
• Participate in code and design reviews.

Our Stack

• Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, GitHub actions, and ArgoCD.
• Backend: Go, Node.js (NestJS, Nx, Typescript)
• Frontend: Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android).
• Database: Spanner, PostgreSQL, Redis.

Profile

• You have 5+ years of experience working on API on distributed architecture.
• You have a proven experience in Go and contribute to developing high volume API microservices.
• You are self-reliant and have prior experience in a startup or similar environment.
• You value teamwork and thrive on challenges.
• You are proficient in English as our team is diverse and international.
• You have a master degree in computer science or related field.
• Most importantly, you believe in the project, are motivated, and eager to embark on an exciting and challenging journey.

Benefits

• Competitive salary upon experience
• Swile Lunch voucher
• Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)
• Premium healthcare coverage SideCare, for your family is 100% borne by Voodoo
• Wellness activities in our Paris office