Lead Backend Engineer (Ruby)
Job Summary
Job Description
As the Lead Backend Engineer (Ruby) at WeMoms, you will spearhead the technical execution of the app, leading a high-performing backend and data team. Key responsibilities include team management, optimizing for business impact, ensuring scalable delivery, and bridging tech and product needs. You will make strategic decisions, ensuring efficient technological execution while prioritizing speed and quality. The role requires strong experience in Ruby, system & software architectures, and ideally, infrastructure/DevOps. You'll lead the team with a hands-on approach, remaining operational while maintaining a strong technical vision. Success hinges on balancing speed and quality to meet the company's growth objectives and user needs.
Must have:
- Lead and empower a high-performing team
- Strong experience in Ruby, system & software architectures
- Optimize for business impact and MVP
- Deliver at scale, ensuring quality and speed
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager/Leader (min 5 years)
- Pragmatic decision-making
Good to have:
- Experience in Infra/DevOps
3 skills required
Job Details
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.
About WeMoms
- Founded in 2014 by Antoine Cardoso & Dino Jaegle, WeMoms is dedicated to making womanhood easier and more fulfilling. Our app offers personalized guidance, a nurturing community, and practical tools designed to empower moms with confidence and joy.
- In 2021, WeMoms joined forces with Voodoo, the largest French unicorn and a global leader in mobile games. This partnership allows WeMoms to leverage Voodoo's expertise and resources while maintaining its independent spirit.
- Today: With 4 million downloads, 150,000 daily active users, and $10 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), WeMoms is experiencing exciting growth.
- By 2026, our ambition is to reach 10 million monthly active users (MAU) and $40 million in revenue, solidifying WeMoms as the go-to platform for families worldwide.
Role
- As our lead back end, your primary goal will be to drive the technical execution of our app while leading a high-performing backend in Ruby and data team.
- You will achieve your goals by ensuring excellent tech execution aligning with business objectives.
- Your success will lie in balancing speed & quality.
- Team management: Lead and empower a high-performing tech & data team, fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence, and well-being.
- Optimize for Business Impact: always make the rational technical choice to maximize speed, MVP and impact.
- Deliver at scale: Execute the product roadmap efficiently, ensuring quality, speed, and continuous improvement.
Scope
Profile
- Tech Leadership: Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Leader, preferably in Consumer Tech or AdTech, with a minimum of 5 years
- Pragmatic: Ability to make strategic, pragmatic decisions at critical moments to ensure the company’s technological needs are met efficiently
- Back end: Strong experience in Ruby, System & software architectures.
- Infra : An experience in Infra / DevOps is a plus
- Hands-on : Lead the team toward a strong technical vision while remaining very operational.
- Business-Oriented: Make the bridge between the tech and product, drive your team members to always have the end users in mind
- Calm: Remain calm and collected under pressure, providing steady and reassuring leadership to the Tech team and executive committee.
Mindset
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About The Company
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.
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