Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Draft Showdown

The role

You will design and build the server-side foundation for the game Draft Showdown. You will move game logic from the client to the server and implement matchmaking and cheat detection.

What you will do

• Build server-side validation for the metagame
• Move toward server authority for competitive features
• Implement and improve matchmaking and cheat detection safeguards
• Design APIs and player-state management for Unity client integration
• Work on infrastructure, API design, coding, and client-side integration

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
• Extreme fluency in Golang (at least 1 year in a professional environment)
• Mastery of SQL and NoSQL
• Background in high-scale systems
• Understanding of Unix-like environments
• AI-first mindset: Comfortable using AI daily and building custom agents or reusable automations
• Experience working in cross-functional agile teams
• Strong analytical skills for scalability, performance, and integration
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to be self sufficient and work autonomously
• Based or willing to relocate in Paris

Nice to have

• A deep interest in game development

Benefits

• Best-in-class compensation
• Other benefits according to the country you reside

About the company

Voodoo is a consumer tech company founded in Paris in 2013. It is a mobile publisher with 1,000 people and over 7 billion downloads.