Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Casual Game

Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Casual Game Gaming Paris Remote About Voodoo Voodoo is a consumer tech company founded in Paris in 2013, with one mission: entertain the world. Today we are 1,000 people, generating $1b+ in annual revenue, profitably. Our games and apps have passed 7 billion downloads and reach 200 million+ active users every month, making Voodoo the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in downloads, after Google and Meta. We were backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent and GBL along the way. This position is remote. Team Our Gaming team is made up of hybrid-casual, casual, and mid-core experts. 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. Joining our Live games team means collaborating with gaming industry experts on globally renowned, enduring games while embracing exciting new entrepreneurial ventures. With over seven billion downloads worldwide and a portfolio of more than 10 resilient hybrid games generating more than $20m per year, we are the world's largest and most successful hybrid publisher. You will be joining one of our Live Studios, working on one of our top title. We’re building an iconic game that players will never forget! We're a small team of excellent people who take care of everything from ideas to testing, and we intend to grow while maintaining our high standards. Over the next 1 to 2 years, we want to turn the game from a successful casual game into a deeper, more competitive live game The goal is to create a territory game where players can progress in their own way, compete meaningfully, and stay engaged over time Backend will be key to support this vision through stronger progression, regular events, live operations, and scalable game systems You will be central to that transition. Role Own and build backend-driven features for the game Work closely with game designers, client developers, product, and data from feature design to launch and iteration Help us build scalable systems for progression, events, competition, social features, and live ops Bring strong technical ownership and challenge product/design choices when needed to make features scalable and robust Reuse and extend Voodoo’s backend platform when relevant, while making sure the game can move fast The responsibilities are cross-functional, ranging from infrastructure, API design