Senior Software Engineer, Zynga
Wizard of Oz Slots
$98.1-161.2k
US salary range for candidates based in California and Illinois only. Canada salary range: $96,400 and $142,660 CAD
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$98.1-161.2k
US salary range for candidates based in California and Illinois only. Canada salary range: $96,400 and $142,660 CAD
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- Degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering) or equivalent experience
- 5+ Years of backend software development experience
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud computing (preferably AWS)
- Experience maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Experience with PHP
- Experience building and operating high-traffic, low-latency backend systems at scale
- Strong familiarity and experience with database systems (SQL, NoSQL)
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software methodologies
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in a collaborative environment
Desirable
- Prior game development experience (on shipped titles or live games experience)
- Experience with Chef, Terraform and/or Jenkins
- Experience in Vue.js or similar frontend frameworks
- Experience migrating monolithic architectures to distributed microservices
What the job involves
- Zynga is looking for a server-side engineer in the Austin, Chicago, Bay Area, or Toronto areas, and more specifically, someone whose level of experience should be equivalent to a Senior Software Engineer on the Wizard of Oz Slots
- We have a well-rounded and tight-knit, distributed team with a healthy mix of engineering skill levels, and are looking to strengthen our team. We need a self-driven and motivated engineer who is a strong communicator, works well as a team player, and performs well under pressure of tight deadlines
- The candidate would have an opportunity to work on critical game components that contribute to user-facing features, gameplay functionality, existing functionality & systems, and have a general focus on solving challenging problems for high profile titles
- Design, architect, and support back-end services running in AWS
- Develop, integrate, and advocate for new technologies and tools
- Load-test, benchmark and optimize infrastructure
- Define, architect, and develop features and gameplay functionality in PHP
- Maintain and develop CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Provide escalation support and infrastructure monitoring
- Follow engineering standard methodologies to ensure code quality, performance and reliability
- Work to identify and help to improve team and process inefficiencies
- Help to mentor other engineers
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 over 170 countries and regions and millions of 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. In 2024 the company announced it was developing push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application, which will be an interesting addition to its outputs.
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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 & Co-founder)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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