Operations Engineer, Voodoo
V.I.E, New York, Blitz
Mobile video game publisher
Open for applications
Mobile video game publisher
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
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
- Graduate of a top-tier French engineering school (École Polytechnique, Mines, CentraleSupélec, Ponts, or equivalent) with 1+ years of professional experience
- Eligible for the V.I.E. program (EU citizen, under 28 years old at departure)
- Proficient in Python: able to write scripts, develop internal tools, interact with APIs, and manipulate data; familiarity with AI-assisted workflows is a plus
- Genuine generalist and “Swiss Army knife”—comfortable with both high-level strategy and hands-on implementation
- Highly proactive and accountable: thrive in ambiguity, identify challenges, and take initiative without waiting for direction
- Strong analytical mindset, attention to detail, and a structured problem-solving approach
- Previous experience in a US tech company or French tech scale-up is a strong asset
- Fluent in English (work language); French is a plus
What the job involves
- Join Blitz as an Operations Engineer and become a driving force in our platform's operational success. You'll lead automation, technical product ownership, and data-driven decision-making across Payments, Fraud, Support, Finance, and CRM
- Serve as a technical product manager across Payments, Fraud, Support, Finance, and CRM, managing requirements, creating technical specs, and analyzing post-release data
- Analyze operational data to uncover insights and identify key business levers to enhance efficiency and user experience
- Proactively automate processes by identifying system bottlenecks, designing workflows, and developing Python scripts or Proofs-of-Concept (PoCs)
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to design scalable solutions to operational challenges
- Monitor platform performance and KPIs, flag risks, and recommend data-driven improvements
- Build internal tools and automate repetitive processes to boost team productivity
- Document systems, processes, and technical specifications clearly and systematically
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
$308.7m
LATE VC
May 2018
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $509.7m
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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