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Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Excellent back-end programming skills with 6+ years of experience
  • Experience with Python is mandatory
  • A good understanding of the basics of algorithms and databases
  • Experience with microservice architecture and highly distributed systems

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement services that plug and play with the existing microservice ecosystem
  • Contribute to choice of the technology stack and observe best practices for reliability and availability
  • Explore and solve open-ended problems that span across the back-end and infrastructure
  • Write readable, maintainable, and testable code

About the company

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Voodoo

Video Games & Interactive Entertainment

Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 7 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL. Voodoo is now a team of over 750 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to join. Entertain the world with us voodoo.io/careers/jobs

Company details

IndustryVideo Games & Interactive Entertainment
Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

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

Blitz is a leading real-money mobile gaming platform where players compete in skill-based games for cash prizes. Our ecosystem includes flagship titles like Blitz Win Cash, alongside Rush Arena and Bingo Win Cash.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of players compete on Blitz, with over $1M in prizes distributed daily across the platform. Built for both casual and competitive mobile gamers, Blitz combines accessible gameplay, high-performing live operations, and a creator-native approach to entertainment.

Blitz is part of the Voodoo group, a global leader of mobile entertainment.

 

Role

We are looking for a talented Senior Backend Engineer (Python) who will play a key role in the development of Blitz, our real-money gaming platform.

  • Design and implement services that plug and play with the existing microservice ecosystem

  • Contribute to choice of the technology stack and observe best practices for reliability and availability

  • Explore and solve open-ended problems that span across the back-end and infrastructure

 

Profile

  • Excellent back-end programming skills with 6+ years of experience

  • Experience with Python is mandatory

  • A good understanding of the basics of algorithms and databases
    Experience writing production-grade systems in Python

  • Experience with microservice architecture and highly distributed systems

  • Write readable, maintainable, and testable code

  • Experience with any cloud infrastructure provider (AWS, GCP, etc.)

  • The willingness to learn and evolve

  • Nice to have :

  • Experience with Payment Services Providers

  • Knowledge of frontend development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and frameworks associated (Bootstrap, JQuery, Vue.js, …)

  • Knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform

  • Startup/scaleup/tech/app environment is a plus

 

Our Stack

  • Programming Languages: Python, bash

  • Databases: AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, AWS Timestream, Redis, PostgreSQL

  • AWS Cloud Services: S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, EKS

  • CI/CD: Kubernetes, Docker, argocd

  • Monitoring and Alerting: Prometheus, Grafana

  • Productivity: Trello, Slack, Notion, Discord, GDrive

 

Benefits

  • Competitive salary upon experience

  • Swile Lunch voucher

  • Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)

  • Premium healthcare coverage SideCare, for your family 100% borne by Voodoo

  • Wellness activities in our Paris office

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