Senior User Interface Front End Engineer, Zynga
$96.4-142.7k
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
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$96.4-142.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript developer
- Proven experience leading projects and designing systems in a fast-paced, product-driven environment
- Deep expertise with React in complex, performance-sensitive applications (4+ years)
- Highly fluent in TypeScript and modern JavaScript best practices
- Strong system design skills and a track record of building maintainable, scalable architectures
- Experience with Next.js (a plus)
- Experience working with CMS platforms (a plus)
- Experience with microservices and cloud infrastructure (GCP is a plus)
- A collaborative, thoughtful engineer who enjoys helping others and driving cross-team initiatives
What the job involves
- As a Senior UI FE Engineer you will play a key role in a newly formed group responsible for developing a central, business-critical product that directly drives a significant portion of the company’s revenue. You’ll be expected to lead projects end-to-end, design scalable systems, and help shape engineering best practices. Your work will directly affect the productivity, performance, and quality of our engineering at scale
- Lead the design and development of new features end-to-end — from technical spec through production deployment
- Own complex architectural decisions and collaborate on high-level product design
- Define, spread, and enforce development standards across teams
- Partner with engineers and stakeholders across teams to ensure shared understanding, ownership, and alignment
- Drive the creation of reusable, generic components and services that serve multiple web apps
- Maintain a strong focus on performance, scalability, and code quality in a system that’s critical to the entire organization
Our take
Zynga is a games developer that rode Facebook's platform to success back in the late noughties and early 2010's. It is now one of the biggest casual game producers globally, with a presence across 175 countries and regions and over 80 million monthly active users.
Though the company hit a number of roadblocks after its initial success - such as falling stock prices, and numerous calls it was copying other games - its subsequent resurgence is proof of its staying power. It continues to use social media as a distribution channel, and boasts titles such as FarmVille, Merge Dragons! and Words With Friends.
Future success will lie in the company's continued investment in building viral games that people love. It will also need to attune to the social media waves and keep track of where users can be found, as the landscape has become more mobile. Notable recent activity includes a collaboration with BBC Earth ahead of 2024's Earth day, and grant to develop actionable push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2011
$490m
SERIES C
Oct 2010
$6.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $865.5m
Company benefits
- COMPENSATION - Performance bonuses, opportunities for equity participation & retirement/pension savings support
- HEALTH - Medical, dental & vision covered for employees, with participation for employees eligible dependents, plus disability and life insurance program
- FAMILY - Generous parental leave for birth parents, partners and adoptive families, plus Infertility support, emergency child care and flexible time-off policies
- WELLNESS - Gym benefits, wellness programs, employee assistance programs and generous time-off policies
- FOOD - Food and snacks made in-house or delivered, healthy snack kitchens with drinks and treats, coffee bars, regular social gatherings and happy hours
- WORK & LIFE - Flexible time-off policies (DTO), office rest areas, gaming spaces, employee discounts and more
- TRANSIT BENEFITS - Shuttle service in select locations, commuter/parking benefits, secure bicycle storage, business travel assistance
- RESOURCE GROUPS - Women at Zynga (WAZ), zCares charitable giving, zParents, zEndurance adventure club, BZU, zPride LGBTQ+ inclusion and belonging
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Pincus
(Chairman)Previously founder and CEO of Freeloader, Supportsoft and Tribe.net, an early social network
Michael Luxton
(Co-founder)Previously an engineer at NetApp
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