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Staff Backend Engineer - Golang

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

Listed for France

From the listing details: Residency required in France

Employer listed it 2 weeks ago · Added 12 days ago

Been open since 2 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.

Salary

Not stated

Location

Listed for France

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

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Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: 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.
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: Competitive salary based on experience

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in France. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Paris, Remote"

What Nomaders makes of it

Residency required in France
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About the role

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

You will be a part of a team of 5 engineers, working on the gaming backend platform. This team collaborates closely with all departments of the company, including Core Gaming, Live Gaming and Engineering & Data.

Our 'Core' games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing, and launching new hit games, whilst our 'Live' games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on our existing and successful games. The Engineering & Data team builds innovative tech products and platforms to support the growth of their gaming and consumer apps.

This team is a crucial part of Voodoo’s transition from Hyper-Casual games to Hybrid, Casual & Mid-Core. The backend platform has helped big titles like Mob Control & Block Jam 3D achieve amazing growth. In the next phase of evolution, we want to scale this platform to our upcoming promising titles. The objective is to scale the most common features as well as develop new features based on studios'.

This position can be fully remote in any EU country.

Role

You will work on the backend platform supporting highly scalable mobile games, played by millions of people every day. You will work closely with client-developers & game designers starting from feature design to delivery, validation, and iteration.

The responsibilities are cross-functional, ranging from infrastructure, API design & coding all the way to client-side integration (we are using Golang). To succeed in this role, you will need to have passion for everything you do. You love to write code that scales to millions of users, are skilled at requirements gathering, champion new tech initiatives & leverage existing solutions.

7+ years of backend development experience

Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals

Extreme fluency in Golang

Mastery of SQL and NoSQL

Background in high-scale systems

Understanding of Unix-like environments

Experience working in cross-functional agile teams

Profile

Strong analytical skills with a track record of solving complex problems related to scalability, performance, and integration in high-stakes environments.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of influencing teams and interfacing effectively with various stakeholders.

Ability to be self sufficient and work autonomously.

A deep interest in game development is a plus.

Benefits

Competitive salary based on experience

Requirements

The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.

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

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Voodoo, mentioning your remote working experience.
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 13d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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