Zynga
Engineering Manager
Austin, TX · Senior
No sponsorshipDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times-connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition.
Responsibilities
- Manage a pod of engineers on the team on a daily basis, both in their tasks as well as morale, career growth and future planning
- Drive standards for technical excellence within the team in partnership with the technical lead
Requirements
- 4+ Years experience as an Engineering Manager
- 4+ Years industry experience as a Software Engineer
- Hands-on experience with low-latency systems and massive-scale backend online services infrastructure in an AWS environment
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes deployments
- Experience defining and maintaining SLOs for live services
- Experience with test-driven development and testing frameworks
- Experience with JS frameworks, both frontend and backend
- Experience with IaC frameworks such as Terraform and Helm
- Mobile development experience with a focus on iOS and/or Android
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent education / work experience
- Ability to build and maintain roadmaps and schedules for a diverse set of services, balancing support with new projects
- Ability to manage, mentor and lead a distributed team of engineers.
- Able to work collaboratively with engineering stakeholders including production, product, and customer engineering teams.
- A background building backend services in modern languages such as Java or Golang, with the depth to give meaningful feedback and mentorship on microservice architecture, API design, and implementation on a large-scale platform.
- Updates knowledge constantly, always seeking to learn about new technologies
- Excellent communication skills
- Bonus Points:
Nice to have
- Level Up Your Career with Zynga!
- From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone.
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- Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation-and where you can take your career to the next level.
- Position Overview
- The optimal candidate will have experience as a senior engineer working on and maintaining large-scale distributed backend services, and at least four years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
Company info
- At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play.
- Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Please note that Zynga is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position.
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