Voodoo

Backend Engineering Lead (TypeScript /Node.js)

Paris, Remote. Posted 7 months ago

The role

You will lead the technical direction and architecture for a squad within the VGP Team. You will combine individual technical contributions with team leadership to deliver high-impact projects and grow engineers.

What you will do

  • Lead the technical direction and architecture for your squad's domain
  • Drive design reviews, set coding standards, and ensure engineering excellence
  • Own the full delivery of complex, cross-team technical initiatives
  • Build, scale and operate Node.js/TypeScript backend services on AWS/EKS
  • Define the infrastructure and reliability strategy for your team's systems
  • Partner with Product and Data to translate business goals into technical roadmaps
  • Grow engineers through 1:1s, code reviews, mentorship and technical coaching
  • Identify systemic risks and drive improvements before they become incidents
  • Be an ambassador for engineering culture

Required qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team (formal or informal)
  • Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript /Node.js
  • Good knowledge of industry best practices (SOLID, KISS, YAGNI, DDD, TDD...)
  • Proven ability to own and deliver large technical projects with cross-team dependencies
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Track record of growing engineers and building high-performing teams
  • Ability to balance speed-of-delivery with long-term technical health

Nice to have

  • Advanced PostgreSQL — schema design at scale, performance tuning, migrations
  • Experience with VueJS or frontend architecture decisions
  • Experience with AWS infrastructure (EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, ALB)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, Helm) at scale
  • Observability and SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, on-call management
  • Experience operating in a hyper-growth or gaming/consumer product company
  • Platform engineering or developer experience background

Benefits

  • Competitive salary based on experience
  • Swile Lunch voucher
  • Gymlib (100% covered by Voodoo)
  • Premium healthcare coverage with SideCare, 100% covered for you and your family
  • Wellness activities in our Paris office
  • Remote Fridays

About the company

Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. It is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.

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