Founding Engineer - BeReal

About the role

The will operate at the intersection of data and design to shape the future of a leading mobile platform. This role requires the ability to synthesize quantitative insights from analytics with qualitative findings from user research in order to pinpoint genuine user needs and transform them into product opportunities. You will be responsible for proposing pragmatic and feasible solutions while rigorously estimating the technical effort and the corresponding business impact of each initiative. The position involves active participation in high-level strategic discussions, where you will help define both the short-term execution plans and the long-term vision for the product roadmap. You will own features end-to-end, maintaining accountability from the initial stage of problem framing all the way through to UI/UX design, implementation, testing, and post-launch iteration. A core part of the role involves designing intuitive user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity interactive screens within Figma to ensure a cohesive and user-friendly experience. You will identify the key metrics that solutions must improve and take full ownership of achieving success against those benchmarks once features are released. The role demands strong coding abilities, requiring you to write clean, performant, and well-tested code for iOS using Swift and SwiftUI, as well as potentially for backend services using Go or Node.js. Finally, you will continuously assess the technical, user, and business impact of every shipped feature and contribute to upholding the highest standards of code quality, architecture, and development processes.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Combine analytics and user research to identify user needs, fuel ideation, and lead product improvements across the BeReal ecosystem.
• Propose pragmatic solutions and estimate both the technical effort required and the potential business impact of new initiatives.
• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions and actively participate in the definition of short-term and long-term product roadmaps.
• Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for problem framing, UI/UX design, implementation, testing, and post-launch iteration.
• Design user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity screens in Figma to translate concepts into tangible and testable design artifacts.
• Identify the key metrics that specific solutions should target and take ownership for ensuring these metrics are achieved after launch.
• Write clean, performant, and well-tested code for iOS using Swift and SwiftUI, and contribute to backend development using Go or Node.js when necessary.
• Assess the technical, user, and business impact of every shipped feature to validate assumptions and guide future iterations.
• Contribute to and uphold best practices concerning code quality, software architecture, and established development processes.
• Contribute to building and continuously improving the core design system to ensure consistency and efficiency across products.
• Analyze user behavior data to uncover friction points and opportunities for enhancing the user experience on mobile devices.
• Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to align on goals and refine implementation details.
• Rapidly prototype new ideas to validate hypotheses quickly before investing in full production implementation.
• Monitor live product performance and debug issues to ensure a stable and high-quality user experience for millions of users.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear technical specifications that guide the engineering and design teams.

Requirements

• Possess strong programming skills in iOS development, specifically with Swift and the SwiftUI framework, backed by a minimum of 4 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrate a product mindset that obsesses over user needs and consistently thinks in terms of metrics to drive data-informed decision-making.
• Show the ability to efficiently hack together quick prototypes for validation and simultaneously build robust, production-grade systems that scale.
• Exhibit strong UI/UX design skills with mandatory proficiency in Figma for creating and iterating on design concepts.
• Operate as a hyper-analytical professional who rigorously tests hypotheses and allows data to guide priority setting and decision-making.
• Have a demonstrated passion for B2C mobile applications, evidenced by a track record of successfully shipping meaningful features or complete products.
• Be highly driven, autonomous, and results-oriented, capable of self-managing complex tasks and delivering outcomes without constant supervision.
• Be fluent in English to communicate effectively with international teams, with French noted as a beneficial additional language.

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Practical notes

Note: About the company

Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees from 40+ nationalities, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.