VP of Engineering — Scale a High-Traffic Mobile Platform

BeReal.; Paris; Sur place; EUR 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

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Résumé du poste

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Staff-level depth

Team scaling

Technical strategy

Outils

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Datadog

BigQuery

Airflow

DBT

Amplitude

PostgreSQL

Redis

Pub/Sub

Go

Node.js

Swift

Kotlin

Description du poste

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.