Senior Software Engineer (golang) Poker

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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 timesconnecting players in 175 countries through fun strategy and a little friendly competition.

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Position Overview:

Zynga is looking for a server-side engineer in the Austin or Toronto areas and more specifically someone whose level of experience should be equivalent to a Senior Software Engineer.

We have a well-rounded and tight-knit distributed team with a healthy mix of engineering skill levels and are looking to strengthen it with the right candidate. We need a self-driven and motivated engineer who is a strong communicator works well as a team player and performs well under the pressure of tight deadlines.

You will have the opportunity to work on high-performance large-scale applications contribute to systems architecture and focus on solving challenging problems for high profile titles. The ideal candidate is fluent in Go experienced in building APIs and services using REST and will have at least 4 years of experience working on teams in the game industry.

Our mission is to Connect the World through Games by building a truly social experience that makes the world a better place. To be successful in this role you will have a passion for games a high level of integrity great technical depth and skills and a strong desire to build successful software.

What Youll Do:

• Define architect & develop features and gameplay functionality in Go

• Develop & integrate new technologies and tools

• Dive into the internals of core systems to extend them as-needed

• Develop and integrate new technologies & SDKs

• Proactively optimize code & memory for high performance game application

• Scope out large tasks and systems with minimal direction and help with the work breakdown; work closely with other engineers participate in multi-week or months-long efforts

• Give team and/or divisional tech talks on architectures that youve built

• Work to identify and help to improve team and process inefficiencies

• Provide mentorship and technical leadership to less experienced team members

• Demonstrate outstanding coding and development skills including critical review and improvements to software developed by other specialists

• Ensure features follow secure coding practices protect user data and identify and mitigate security risks during design and implementation

• Be aware of the industry; identify future technical risks scalability concerns and strategic opportunities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align technical solutions with product and design goals

What You Bring:

• . in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent education / work experience

• 4 Years game industry / mobile app experience as a software developer

• Prior game development experience (on shipped titles or live games experience)

• Expert working knowledge in Golang C# and HTML

• Strong working experience in implementing APIs and services (gRPC and REST)

• Solid foundation in data structures algorithms and software methodologies

• Have solid working knowledge of the full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations

• Excellent communication skills and comfortable working in a collaborative environment

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Unity3D

• Experience with versioning and build systems: Git and Jenkins

• Experience with performance profiling and optimization

• Knowledge of Docker Database (PostgreSQL MySQL) Kafka Redis AWS gRPC and Protobuf

• Experience with monitoring tools: Bugsnag Splunk/ELK and Datadog

• Experience with Multiplayer / Realtime Systems

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

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