Full-Time

Technical Lead

Puzzle Games

Posted on 8/23/2025

Voodoo

Voodoo

501-1,000 employees

Free mobile games monetized by ads

No salary listed

Paris, France

Remote

The job is Paris-based with relocation support available.

Category
Engineering Management (3)
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Requirements
  • 3 years of experience as a Technical Director or Technical Lead on casual games
  • At least 5+ years of professional experience with Unity
  • Successful track record in top-tier mobile casual games, with experience in both new and live game development
  • Experience in creating, growing, and leading engineering teams
  • A creative and innovative mindset with strong problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Comfortable switching from management work to hands-on coding as needed
  • Experience with backend development or client-server interactions
  • Extremely passionate about casual games and driven to create a new hit
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, enthusiastic about building new things from the ground up
Responsibilities
  • Partner with the General Manager to structure, recruit, and onboard the technical team
  • Define and establish the technical foundations for a new puzzle game, addressing all aspects from prototype to worldwide launch, including the creation of the switcher engine, level editor, and future live operations
  • Develop and implement ways of working for the engineering craft, including technical practices, team rituals, and collaboration processes
  • Define an execute the long-term technical strategy for the studio, ensuring scalability for both the team and the game, in alignment with the overall product and studio strategy
  • Work with product leadership on roadmap, rollouts, and adoption strategies
  • Engage in hands-on coding when needed, building new features and iterating rapidly based on player feedback and market testing
  • Monitor the health of the product, guiding the technical team to continuously enhance product quality and address issues promptly
  • Help the General Manager and other Leads manage the studio, contributing to its strategy, operations, and people management, always fostering a culture of innovation and creativity

Voodoo.io creates free, accessible mobile games and apps, mainly hyper-casual games, and earns revenue through advertising. It also provides advertising services to brands that want to reach a premium mobile gaming audience. The games run by displaying ads via partnerships with ad networks; data analytics help optimize user engagement and ad performance, with a focus on user consent, privacy controls, and avoiding data collection from anyone under 16. The company differentiates itself with a large in-house team of artists and developers for mobile marketing content, a broad U.S. user base, and an integrated approach that combines entertaining free games with brand advertising opportunities. Its goal is to reach millions of global users with free content while generating ad-based revenue and helping brands connect with mobile gamers in a privacy-conscious manner.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$493.6M

Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

2013

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Revenue hit $778M in 2025 from diversified portfolio beyond hyper-casual.
  • AppHarbr partnership boosts ARPU 5% via superior ad quality control.
  • Tencent Cloud partnership accelerates high-quality game releases globally.

What critics are saying

  • Wizz faces bans for enabling underage hookups, halting US growth.
  • Game cloning triggers lawsuits from developers, draining resources.
  • Supersonic surpasses Voodoo in downloads, dropping #3 ranking.

What makes Voodoo unique

  • Voodoo leads hybrid-casual movement with Mob Control and Hole.io driving IAP records.
  • Acquired BeReal for €500M and launched Wizz with 3M daily users.
  • CEO Yazdi negotiates majority stake in DC Company owning Konbini.

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Benefits

Competitive salary upon experience

Comprehensive relocation package

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib

Premium healthcare coverage

Child day care facilities

Wellness activities in our Paris office

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

0%
Maddyness
Mar 19th, 2026
The boss of Voodoo is about to acquire Konbini and Le Gorafi.

The boss of Voodoo is about to acquire Konbini and Le Gorafi. Alexandre Yazdi is on the verge of becoming the head of a media group. He is preparing to take a majority stake in DC Company, which owns Konbini and Le Gorafi. After BeReal, Alexandre Yazdi has other targets in his sights. Indeed, the boss of the French mobile gaming heavyweight Voodoo has entered into exclusive negotiations with a view to taking a majority stake in the capital of the digital media group DC Company, which owns Konbini and Le Gorafi, both parties announced to AFP on Thursday. This operation 'aims to support a new phase of development for the group, notably by strengthening its investment capabilities,' indicated Alexandre Yazdi and DC Company in a joint statement. No financial details were disclosed. This 'is part of the continuity of a relationship that began several years ago,' with Alexandre Yazdi being 'a long-term investor in DC Company,' according to the statement. The amount of his current stake was not revealed. Konbini acquired by DC Company in 2024. Founded by Geoffrey La Rocca, DC Company acquired Konbini, a pioneer in online media popular among 15-35 year-olds, in early 2024. The group also includes other digital media: the satirical site Le Gorafi, and the feminist media Herstory (formerly Les Éclaireuses) and C'est Qui La Boss. The group claims 8 billion views in 2025 in France and internationally. 'By leveraging the product and technological expertise of Alexandre Yazdi developed within Voodoo and BeReal, and the know-how of Geoffrey La Rocca in developing strong and committed media brands, the two entrepreneurs intend to continue developing an innovative, sustainable, and independent media model,' according to the joint statement. Voodoo acquired BeReal for half a billion euros. Alexandre Yazdi is the co-founder and head of Voodoo. Founded in 2013, the company has become a heavyweight in the mobile gaming market (which is worth more than $100 billion worldwide in 2025, according to Newzoo). It generated $778 million in revenue in 2025. Voodoo has also diversified into applications by creating Wizz, a social network for teenagers that has 3 million daily users worldwide, one-third of whom are in the United States. The French company also acquired the BeReal network in 2024 for 500 million euros. This application, very popular with Generation Z, where users share instant photos, has 40 million monthly users, including more than 8 million in Japan (its first market) and 5.5 million in France. Don't miss out on tomorrow's economy, receive the Maddyness newsletter every day at 7:30 AM. SUBSCRIBE REPORT AN ERROR Alexandre Yazdi, co-founder and CEO of Voodoo.

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