Backend Engineering Lead (TypeScript /Node.js)

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

The Engineering & Data team builds innovative tech products and platforms to support the impressive growth of their gaming and consumer apps which allow Voodoo to stay at the forefront of the mobile gaming industry.

You will specifically join VGP Team. VGP automates repetitive and high-volume growth tasks, starting with the distribution of over 25,000 creatives across multiple ad networks and campaigns per year, and continuously improves decision-making, performance monitoring, and playable ads production. The platform is evolving to integrate AI-driven campaign launches, bidding automation, and expanded network coverage.

Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead (TypeScript/Node.js) to join our Engineering & Data team. As an Engineering Lead, you'll combine strong individual technical contributions with team leadership. You'll be responsible for the technical direction of your squad, the growth of your engineers, and the delivery of high-impact projects. This is a hybrid IC/manager role — you'll still write code, but your leverage is through the team.

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: psychological safety, pragmatism, and craft

Profile (MUST have)

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

Profile (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

Our Stack

TypeScript ; Node.js ; AWS ; Terraform ; CDK ; Helm

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