Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Voodoo
Golang
Mobile video game publisher
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Mobile video game publisher
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help games reach the top of the charts and coach developers of all sizes on finding ideas and developing their games.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of backend development experience
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
- Extreme fluency in Golang
- Mastery of SQL and NoSQL
- Background in high-scale systems
- Understanding of Unix-like environments
- Experience working in cross-functional agile teams
- Strong analytical skills with a track record of solving complex problems related to scalability, performance, and integration in high-stakes environments
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of influencing teams and interfacing effectively with various stakeholders
- Ability to be self sufficient and work autonomously
- A deep interest in game development is a plus
What the job involves
- You will be a part of a team of 5 engineers, working on the gaming backend platform. This team collaborates closely with all departments of the company, including Core Gaming, Live Gaming and Engineering & Data
- Our 'Core' games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing, and launching new hit games, whilst our 'Live' games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on our existing and successful games. The Engineering & Data team builds innovative tech products and platforms to support the growth of their gaming and consumer apps
- This team is a crucial part of Voodoo’s transition from Hyper-Casual games to Hybrid, Casual & Mid-Core. The backend platform has helped big titles like Mob Control & Marble sort & castle busters achieve amazing growth. In the next phase of evolution, we want to scale this platform to our upcoming promising titles. The objective is to scale the most common features as well as develop new features based on studios'
- You will work on the backend platform supporting highly scalable mobile games, played by millions of people every day. You will work closely with client-developers & game designers starting from feature design to delivery, validation, and iteration
- The responsibilities are cross-functional, ranging from infrastructure, API design & coding all the way to client-side integration (we are using Golang). To succeed in this role, you will need to have passion for everything you do. You love to write code that scales to millions of users, are skilled at requirements gathering, champion new tech initiatives & leverage existing solutions
Our take
Voodoo is a leader in the mobile gaming market. The company, which is the world's number one mobile game developer in terms of downloads, creates and publishes mobile games for casual players, with releases including Paper.io, Snake VS Block, Flappy Dunk and Dune!
Voodoo oversees an inordinate data ecosystem, hence for its business to succeed, it needs to be data-ware and operationally responsive at all times. In order to be so, the company partnered with oolo, a platform that improves data tracking with automated monitoring.
Voodoo believes in continuous improvement of processes and sharing best practices. Its culture is based on its strategy: achieve excellence by creating and publishing hit games and hiring great talent. Several funding rounds have fuelled product expansion towards gaming apps while consolidating its technological infrastructure to support this growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2021
$305.4m
LATE VC
May 2018
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $506.4m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive relocation package (including visa support)
- Swile Lunch voucher
- Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)
- Premium healthcare coverage for your family 100% borne by Voodoo
- Child day care facilities (Les Petits Chaperons rouges)
- Wellness activities in our Paris office
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Remote days
Company HQ
Les Halles, Paris, France
Leadership
Alexandre Yazdi
(CEO)Studied Engineering at Polytech Nancy - ESSTIN and is the CEO of aura.
Laurent Ritter
(Co-founder)Studied HR at ESC Rennes and founded Purple.
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