Engineering Lead (TypeScript /Node.js)
Department: Engineering & Data
Location: Paris
Employment Type: FullTime
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.
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
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