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Voodoo is seeking a CTO/VP of Engineering to lead the BeReal engineering organization, consisting of 12 squads and approximately 80 people across tech and product. Reporting directly to the CEO, this role will focus on app stability at scale, faster squad delivery without regressions, controlling infrastructure costs, and elevating the talent bar. The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of experience, including 6+ years leading leaders in organizations of 80-200+ engineers, and a proven track record of scaling high-traffic consumer products. Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, and distributed systems is essential.
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.
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.
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:
GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, Fastly · Go (some legacy Node.js), Cloud Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub · Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin · BigQuery, Airflow, DBT, Amplitude