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Zynga is looking for a full stack engineer (with an emphasis on frontend) 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 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 user-facing features (including UI / UX), core gameplay functionality, various backend systems, and generally solve challenging problems for high profile mobile games.
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 You'll Do:- Define, architect, & develop features and gameplay functionality in Unity, C# on the front end and RoR stack, C# on the backend.
- Develop & integrate new technologies and tools (working with content teams)
- Dive into the internals of core systems to extend them as-needed
- Iterate on new or existing functionality and UI / UX
- Collaborate with other engineers and architect systems at scale with minimum disruption to the live game
- Support live-ops and deployments on a rotational basis
- Proactively optimize code & memory for high performance simulations with tight constraints
- Scope out large tasks and system with minimal direction
- Work closely with other engineers to lead multi-week or month-long efforts
- Give team tech talks on architectures that you’ve built
- Work with the lead to identify and help to improve team and process inefficiencies
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent education / work experience
- 5+ Years game industry / mobile app experience as a software developer
- Shipped titles and/or live games experience
- Expert knowledge in C#, Java, Python, Ruby or a similar programming language
- 2+ Years Unity experience
- 1+ Year backend experience with any of the RoR/Golang/C# .NET/Java/Python
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software methodologies
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working in a collaborative environment
- In-depth understanding of client-server interactions
- Experience with git
- Experience with performance profiling and optimization
- Mobile development with a focus on iOS & Android
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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