CTO / VP Engineering
- Role
- Engineering Management
- Experience
- C-Level
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Mid-size
Open to FR only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Lead BeReal's engineering organization (12 squads, ~80 people across tech and product, 3 codebases) reporting to the CEO. Focus on app stability at scale, faster squad releases without regressions, controlled infrastructure costs, and higher talent bar. Drive technical strategy and hire/develop exceptional engineers.
Core skills
Required skills
Optional skills
ABOUT VOODOO
Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.
TEAM
BeReal stands for authenticity in social media: one notification a day, unfiltered photos and videos, real friends. 40M+ people use BeReal every month, and they all post at the same moment. Since joining Voodoo, BeReal has returned to growth with a healthy business model and $50M in revenue this year. The opportunity is clear: people want an alternative to Instagram and TikTok. Our ambition is to make BeReal the leader in authentic social, used by hundreds of millions.
ROLE
You will lead BeReal’s engineering organization: 12 squads, around 80 people across tech and product, three codebases (iOS, Android, Backend). You will report directly to BeReal’s CEO. Your mandate: app stability at spike scale, faster squads without regressions, infrastructure cost under control, and a higher talent bar.
What you'll do:
- Own the stability of a system where millions of users post within the same two minutes, every day
- Run 12 squads across three codebases: release discipline, feature flags, platform, developer experience
- Own infrastructure cost as a P&L line: GCP, Cloud Spanner, media delivery at scale
- Complete our Node.js to Go migration without slowing delivery
- Hire exceptional engineers, develop them, and hold the bar
- Set technical strategy with the CEO and product leadership
OUR STACK
GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, Fastly · Go (some legacy Node.js), Cloud Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub · Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin · BigQuery, Airflow, DBT, Amplitude
PROFILE
- 12+ years in engineering, 6+ leading leaders, in organizations of 80–200+ engineers
- You scaled a high-traffic consumer product or comparable high-throughput infrastructure
- Architect-level depth: you hold your own with staff engineers on distributed-systems trade-offs. No coding test.
- You have built regression-prevention systems for many teams shipping in parallel
- You lead distributed teams through clear writing, metrics, and fast async decisions
- A plus: consumer social, camera or media products, native mobile organizations
BENEFITS
- Competitive salary upon experience
- Swile Lunch voucher
- Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)
- Premium healthcare coverage SideCare, for your family 100% borne by Voodoo
- Wellness activities in our Paris office
What you'll do
- Own the stability of a system where millions of users post within the same two minutes, every day
- Run 12 squads across three codebases: release discipline, feature flags, platform, developer experience
- Own infrastructure cost as a P&L line: GCP, Cloud Spanner, media delivery at scale
- Complete our Node.js to Go migration without slowing delivery
- Hire exceptional engineers, develop them, and hold the bar
What they require
- 12+ years in engineering, 6+ leading leaders, in organizations of 80–200+ engineers
- Scaled a high-traffic consumer product or comparable high-throughput infrastructure
- Architect-level depth: hold your own with staff engineers on distributed-systems trade-offs
- Built regression-prevention systems for many teams shipping in parallel
- Lead distributed teams through clear writing, metrics, and fast async decisions
Benefits
- Competitive salary upon experience
- Swile Lunch voucher
- Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)
- Premium healthcare coverage SideCare, for your family 100% borne by Voodoo
- Wellness activities in our Paris office
BeReal is a social media app focused on authenticity and unfiltered moments. Backed by Voodoo, the team is scaling BeReal into a large social network.