Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack), ZMGT

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2 Locations
In-Office
Senior level
Gaming
The Role
Design and develop customer-facing web and backend services, collaborate with UX/UI designers, and ensure code quality in the Mobile Game Tech organization at Zynga.
Summary Generated by Built In

Level Up Your Career with Zynga!

At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition.

From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Wizard of Oz Slots™, Hit it Rich! Slots™, Wonka Slots™, Top Eleven™, Toon Blast™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, CSR Racing™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™—plus many more!

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level.

Join us and be part of the play!

Position Overview:

Passionate about technology? Join our team at Zynga as a Senior Software Engineer (SSE) in the Mobile Game Tech organization. We are in search of an outstanding individual to join the Customer Hub team of software engineers. Together, you will design and develop a customer-facing portal that offers a smooth experience. This portal will highlight various MGT products such as Payments, Identities, Directory, Forge, and Analytics. As an SSE, you will play a key role as part of the Mobile Game Tech organization, focusing on sophisticated technology developments to build, improve and maintain next-gen tech solutions for our games.

What You'll Do:
  • Design, build, and maintain new and existing features and improvements to web and backend services used by mobile and web clients.
  • Collaborate with UX/UI designers to build a streamlined customer experience.
  • Take a hands-on approach in architecting, writing, and reviewing code.
  • Proactively identify & recommend improvements to address systemic problems and tech debt.
  • Follow engineering standard methodologies to ensure code quality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Collaborate effectively with teammates, contributing to an innovative environment of technical excellence.
  • Review detailed tech plans from others, aligning with the team, and Zynga-wide technical vision.
  • Provide production & integration support for shared technology across Zynga games.
What You Bring:
  • A proven foundation in software programming, with strong proficiencies in data structures and algorithms is required.
  • Experience programming RESTful services using Java, Golang, Python, and Spring.
  • Experience programming with web development using ReactJS and React-based frameworks.
  • Experience in HTML, CSS, and frameworks such as Tailwind CSS.
  • Experience in object-oriented design of applications/systems.
  • Good understanding of algorithms, design patterns, debugging and performance optimization.
  • Familiarity with agile development methodologies and tools.
  • Excellent ability to work efficiently with teammates and independently.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills - particularly the ability to discuss timelines, design concerns, work with distributed teams, and provide effective feedback to team members.
  • Bachelor or equivalent degree in Computer Science.
  • 4+ years of hands-on software development experience.
Bonus Points:
  • Experience with DevOps, cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes in AWS is a plus.
  • Experience with database systems (SQL, NoSQL) is a plus.
What We Offer You:

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.  Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at [email protected] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others.  Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel.  Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage.  Zynga’s  in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).  

Top Skills

CSS
Go
HTML
Java
NoSQL
Python
React
Spring
SQL
Tailwind Css
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,449 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Zynga was founded in 2007 with the vision that play would become one of the core activities on the Internet. We pioneered social games with the belief that if we could make games simple, accessible and social the world would start playing. We are excited that games have grown to become the second most popular activity by time spent, even surpassing email. But we have a lot of hard work, innovation and growth ahead of us to create a future where social gaming is a daily habit for everyone.

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