Senior Backend Engineer, Zynga
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Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- +3 years of experience as a Backends Engineer
- Proactive team player that is ready to work with diverse roles and people
- Strong background in programming languages like PHP and Golang
- Knowledge of frontend frameworks such as React or Angular is a plus
- Excellent strategic decision-making skills and a strong sense of responsibility/ownership
- Prefer maintainable code over overengineering
- Able to design, implement and maintain code in complex systems on your own
- Able to manage infrastructure and understand what happens behind your code
- Able to explain complex problems to both technical and non-technical people
- Able to understand and tune application scalability, performance, and reliability
What the job involves
- We're looking for software engineers that will work on services for games that are played & loved by several million users every day, all over the world
- Those services must scale-out to serve high users traffic every day and must be developed with the highest quality this competitive industry requires
- We expect from our developers to keep our tech state-of-the-art and, at the same time, come up with great new ideas
- Our backend applications are developed using several programming languages & technologies (Golang, PHP, AWS EC2, Kubernetes, etc…), so you should be eager to work with our legacy code, extend, maintain & continuously refactor the backend of our games
- Having knowledge of frontend frameworks like React or Angular is considered a plus, as some of our internal tools rely on them
- Your job is not only about writing code. You will also have to work with other roles like mobile developers, data analysts and systems engineers to integrate your components, as well as write technical designs, documentation, knowledge share and train other team members
- As a backend engineer, you will also be part of our games team and work closely with game design, player experience, mobile, and other departments. You will be integrated with business decisions as part of our technology strategy
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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