Staff Backend Engineer (Golang) - BeReal

BeReal; Paris; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)

Premium healthcare coverage SideCare

Wellness activities in our Paris офис

Job summary

Voodoo is seeking an experienced backend engineer with 8+ years building distributed APIs. You will contribute to high-volume microservices in Go, collaborate with a global team, and help scale our backend for millions of users across countries.

The role requires strong Go expertise, experience with Kubernetes, GCP, and modern backend patterns. A master’s degree in CS and a passion for scalable systems are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience working on API on distributed architecture
• Proven experience in Go and contributing to high volume API microservices
• Startup or similar environment experience
• Strong English communication in an international team
• Master degree in computer science or related field

Responsibilities

• Tackle technical challenges in a high-scale backend supporting millions of users
• Contribute to robust architecture capable of scaling to new countries
• Collaborate with product and engineering to implement new features
• Analyze trade-offs and address key backend components
• Participate in code and design reviews

Skills

Go

Distributed architecture

API design

Teamwork

English proficiency

Education

Master's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Pub/Sub

Go

Node.js (NestJS)

Nx

Typescript

Spanner

PostgreSQL

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 the company and Wizz.

Team

At the company, 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 the company into an iconic social network used by hundreds of millions.

Role

We’ve built the company with a small 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 8+ 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

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