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Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and support backend services running in AWS.
- Develop and integrate new technologies and tools.
- Load-test, benchmark, and optimize infrastructure.
- Define, architect, and develop features and gameplay functionality in PHP.
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Provide escalation support and infrastructure monitoring.
- Apply engineering standards to ensure code quality, performance, and reliability.
- Identify and improve team and process inefficiencies.
- Mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- A degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 4 years of backend software development experience.
- Deep hands-on AWS experience.
- Experience maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Experience with PHP or a similar programming language.
- Experience building and operating high-traffic, low-latency backend systems at scale.
- Strong familiarity with SQL and NoSQL database systems.
- A solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software methodologies.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working collaboratively.
- Prior game development experience is a bonus.
- Experience with Chef, Terraform, Jenkins, Vue.js, or monolith-to-distributed-microservices migrations is a bonus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage.
- 14 paid holidays per calendar year.
- 15 to 25 paid vacation days per calendar year or eligibility for the company’s discretionary time off program.
- Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year.
- Paid parental and compassionate leave.
- Mental health and wellness support programs.
- Family planning support through Maven.
- Commuter benefits and fitness-expense reimbursements.
- Regular, full-time employment; the role is available in Austin, Chicago, or Toronto.
About Zynga
Zynga builds free-to-play mobile and social games for global consumer audiences, monetized through in‑app purchases and advertising. Its portfolio includes franchises such as Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, FarmVille, Toon Blast, CSR Racing, Merge Dragons!, and Empires & Puzzles. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, Zynga operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, with billions of cumulative mobile downloads across hundreds of countries.