About the role
Company Overview
Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, the company has teams across North America, Europe, and Asia. Its game portfolio includes titles such as 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.
Position Overview
The Central Technology team focuses on client and server technology that drives core gameplay experiences. This role involves managing multiple teams with a focus on game support, AI development, R&D, and FinOps.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead multiple software engineering teams supporting mobile game development, AI initiatives, R&D projects, and FinOps cost optimisation.
- Guide teams in using AI to accelerate development workflows and improve business outcomes.
- Drive technical excellence by validating technology choices, architecture, and code quality, including diving deep into technical details when necessary.
- Set teams up for success by identifying gaps, improving engineering processes, and creating growth opportunities.
- Represent teams with stakeholders across disciplines, both inside and outside the organization.
- Own team roadmaps, incorporating feedback from stakeholders and leadership to support Central Technology objectives.
- Partner with technical leaders across Zynga to advance best practices and engineering culture.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Management: Experience directly managing software engineering teams.
- Development: Hands-on software development experience.
- Engineering Standards: Solid understanding of best practices for engineering processes, code quality, build and release pipelines, security, and live operations.
- Mobile Development: Experience developing mobile applications (native iOS/Android, Unity, or Unreal).
- Languages: Familiarity with multiple programming languages, such as Java, C#, C++, Python, or Go.
- Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile development methods and tools.
Nice to Have
- Game development experience.
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies.
Equal Opportunity and Accommodations
Zynga is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds. Employment is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic regardless of 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 law.
Accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments. Requests for support or accommodation during the application or interview process may be sent to accommodationrequest@zynga.com.
Security Notice
- Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram or WhatsApp.
- Zynga does not engage in financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process and will never ask for personal or financial information over unofficial chat channels.
- Official recruitment communications originate only from official company email domains (zynga.com, take2games.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, or gram.gs).