Senior Software Engineer Client - Words With Friends
Senior Software Engineer Client - Words With Friends
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Job Description
Who We Are:
Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a whollyowned subsidiary of TakeTwo Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile including Star Wars: Hunters CSR Racing Dragon City Empires & Puzzles FarmVille Golf Rival Hair Challenge Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells High Heels! Merge Dragons! Merge Magic! Monster Legends Toon Blast Top Eleven Toy Blast Two Dots Words With Friends and Zynga Poker.Founded in 2007 Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America Europe and Asia. For more information visit www.zynga or follow Zynga on Twitter Instagram Facebook or the Zynga blog
Position Overview:
Zynga is looking for a Senior web developer in the Austin Bay Area or Toronto areas.
We have a wellrounded and tightknit distributed team with a healthy mix of engineering skill levels and are looking to strengthen our team in tackling a variety of challenges. We are looking for a selfdriven and motivated engineer who is a strong communicator has a strong sense of ownership works well as a team player and performs well under deadlines.
The candidate would have an opportunity to develop and maintain webbased games under the Words With Friends umbrella including wordswithfriends and those hosted on the Facebook Canvas and Instant Games platforms. These games are built using an inhouse JavaScript framework that interfaces with AWS Lambda Zynga APIs and other thirdparty APIs to bring the game experience to our players on the web.
The ideal candidate will have strong software design skills capable of owning feature work throughout the entire development pipeline of design architecture development testing release and monitoring. The candidate can write clean code and automated tests; can provide scalable solutions in a distributed environment; and has at least three years of experience working on mobile games or live service software.
What Youll Do:
Develop and maintain the webbased versions of Words With Friends hosted on wordswithfriends and the Facebook Canvas and Instant Games platforms.
Collaborate with Customer Service LiveOps Product Analytics Design Engineering & QA to ensure Words With Friends on the web continues to meet its product goals.
Write clear maintainable portable and highly functional code that is well tested and documented.
What You Bring:
Webfrontend development experience Javascript CSS HTML Node.js npm
- Proficient inC# and Unity
Amazon Web Services experience S3 CloudFront Lambda Cloud Watch API Gateway
Demonstrated experience with integrating 3rd party web APIs and architecting scalable systems.
B.Sc. degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
Demonstrable significant prior success as web developer who designed and implemented complex UIs.
Ability to work independently and in collaboration with others.
Ability to own a project endtoend from inception to release and ongoing maintenance.
Bonus Points :
Facebook Applications
TypeScript/React.js
Ruby on Rails
Jenkins
Agile/JIRA
What We Offer You:
Zynga offers a worldclass benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits visit the Zynga Benefits site
The pay range for this position in California at the start of employment is expected to be between $98400 and $145620 per year.
However base pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as jobrelated knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations. Subject to those same considerations the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a bonus and/or equity awards in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired employee will be in an atwill position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.
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Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over thirdparty 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. Zyngas inhouse recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e. via a zynga naturalmotion smallgiantgames themavens gram.gs email domain).
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
