Zynga Hiring for Principal Software Engineer 2 at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Why Zynga:
Our mission at Zynga is to connect the world through games by building games around core social experiences to deliver deep player engagement, organic acquisition and long-term retention. Our portfolio of games – Empires & Puzzles, Merge Dragons, CSR Racing 2, Farmville, Hit it Rich! Slots, Words with Friends and Zynga Poker span some of the fastest growing mobile gaming categories including Action Strategy, Casual, Social Casino and Invest Express.

In 2019, we delivered a record topline performance with revenue of $1.32 billion, up 46% year-over-year, and bookings of $1.56 billion, up 61% year-over-year

Our strong Q4 performance capped off an outstanding year as we delivered the highest annual revenue and bookings in Zynga history. We expect to build on this momentum as we continue growing our business in 2020.

Come join us, thrive, and take risks and dream big to shape the future of fastest growing gaming platform mobile.

Zynga India:
Zynga India is Zynga’s largest studio outside USA with 500+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of Zynga’s biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The Zynga India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.

Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity

Modernizing the tech stack

Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games

Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements

Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources

Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.

Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.

Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.

Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack

Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL

Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.

A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design

Strong problem solving and debugging skills

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)

Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning

Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)

Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins

Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.

Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

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!

Careers Category: Engineering

Careers location: Bengaluru, India

Requisition ID: P209458