Position Overview
Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Central Technology! As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for the technical vision, design and realization of backend services that power our games at scale. We’re looking for outstanding engineers with a passion for tec hnology and the ability to work with a team with varied strengths.
Main Responsibilities
- Design and architect new backend applications/services running in AWS
- Optimize & refactor existing services to improve reliability, scalability and to lower cost
- Advoc ate for new technologies and engineering best practices across the team
- Perform technical review of other engineers’ work and provide feedback/advice
- Create documentation and tech plans for new architecture/system designs
- Work reciprocally across discipli nes to understand product/customer requirements and propose technical solutions.
- Establish engineering process and KPI metrics to measure software quality
- Coach and mentor other engineers
Desired Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Compu ter Science, or equivalent
- 8+ years of professional experience in software development of server applications
- Experience programming RESTful services using Java, GoLang, Python, Spring, and/or PHP
- Strong familiarity and experience using AWS and/or other cl oud computing platforms (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Deep understanding of algorithms, design patterns, debugging and performance optimization.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
- Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes a plus
- Familiarity with database systems (SQL, NoSQL) a plus
- Familiarity with web development using JS, Angular and React a plus
What we offer you:
- Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
- Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and Zynga RSUs
- Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
- Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
- Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
- Well stocked pantry
- Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Active Employee Resource Groups – Women at Zynga
- Frequent employee events
- Additional leave options for most employees
- Flexible working hours on many teams
- Casual dress every single day
- Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!