Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - Draft Showdown
Job description
Backend engineer role at Voodoo's newly established internal studio, building the server-side foundation for Draft Showdown, a turn-based multiplayer game moving from client-authoritative to server-validated competitive PvP. The engineer will own the game's backend while building on and contributing to Voodoo's shared gaming backend platform.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Paris, France
What you'll do
- Build server-side validation for the metagame - currency, card upgrades, chest opens, and progression - staged by risk, replicating economy and reward logic on the server
- Move toward server authority for competitive features, where game state lives in one place and can be trusted
- Implement and improve matchmaking and cheat detection safeguards for a Deterministic lockstep PvP architecture
- Design APIs and player-state management that the Unity client integrates against, and help shape how client and server split responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally from infrastructure and API design & coding to client-side integration (using Golang)
- Work closely with client developers and game designers from feature design through delivery, validation and iteration
- Build on and contribute back to Voodoo's shared gaming backend platform in close collaboration with the wider backend team
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of backend development experience
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
- Extreme fluency in Golang (at least 1 year in a professional environment)
- Mastery of SQL and NoSQL
- Background in high-scale systems
- Understanding of Unix-like environments
- AI-first mindset: comfortable using AI daily and building custom agents or reusable automations to speed up work
- Experience working in cross-functional agile teams
- 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
- Based or willing to relocate in Paris
Nice to have
- A deep interest in game development
Your team
Newly established internal studio (Draft Showdown)
A dynamic and focused team dedicated to one of Voodoo's most promising prototypes in scale, chartered to improve this high-potential game up to a successful and market-ready title. The role works alongside Draft Showdown's client engineers and game designers as a full member of the game team, and is plugged into Voodoo's shared gaming backend platform.
Benefits
- Best-in-class compensation
- Other benefits according to the country you reside
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About Voodoo
Voodoo is a consumer tech company founded in Paris in 2013, generating $1b+ in annual revenue, profitably. Its 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.
Mission
Entertain the world
Key facts
- 1,000 people
- 2013
- Paris
- Consumer tech / mobile games
- Generating $1b+ in annual revenue, profitably
- Games and apps have passed 7 billion downloads
- Reach 200 million+ active users every month
- #3 mobile publisher worldwide in downloads, after Google and Meta
- Backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent and GBL
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