Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby)
6 Months ago • 5 Years +
Backend Development
Job Description
As a lead backend engineer at WeMoms, you'll drive the technical execution of their app, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Responsibilities include optimizing for business impact, delivering at scale, and balancing speed and quality. You'll make strategic technical decisions, execute the product roadmap, and ensure continuous improvement. This role requires proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Leader, preferably in Consumer Tech or AdTech, with strong Ruby, system & software architecture skills. Experience with Infra/DevOps is a plus. The ideal candidate is hands-on, business-oriented, and calm under pressure, providing leadership to the tech team.
Good To Have:
- Infra/DevOps experience
Must Have:
- Proven experience as Engineering Manager/Leader
- Strong Ruby, system & software architecture experience
- Pragmatic decision-making, focusing on impact and speed
- Ability to deliver at scale with quality and efficiency
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.
- You will achieve your goals by ensuring excellent tech execution aligning with business objectives.
- Your success will lie in balancing speed & quality.
- 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 : Maintaining a strong technical vision while remaining very operational.
- Business-Oriented: Make the bridge between the tech and product, while keeping the end users in mind
- Calm: Remain calm and collected under pressure, providing steady and reassuring leadership to the Tech team and executive committee.
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