Manager - Planning & Engineering

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.

From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVilleTM, Words With FriendsTM, Zynga PokerTM, Game of Thrones Slots CasinoTM, Wizard of Oz SlotsTM, Hit it Rich! TM, CSR RacingTM, Harry Potter: Puzzles & SpellsTM, Match FactoryTM, and Color Block JamTM—plus many more!

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Zynga is looking for an Engineering Manager in the Chicago, Austin or Toronto areas to lead a newly formed Core Services team within our larger Development and Infrastructure Systems organization in the Central Technology group. Core Services is a small, distributed team with a mix of engineering skill levels that builds and maintains a number of central services critical to both Central Technology and all games across Zynga.

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. You will work with the team on a day-to-day basis in partnership with the technical lead to ensure timely, high quality outcomes and technical excellence.

Ensure the team has clearly defined and scoped projects, overseeing timeline scoping and task breakdown with the engineers

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

Review and give feedback to engineering architectures

Help to monitor and improve engineering process

in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent education / work experience

4+ Years experience as an Engineering Manager

4+ Years industry experience as a Software Engineer

Ability to build and maintain roadmaps and schedules for a diverse set of services, balancing support with new projects

Able to work collaboratively with engineering stakeholders including production, product, and customer engineering teams.

Hands-on experience with low-latency systems and massive-scale backend online services infrastructure in an AWS environment

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.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes deployments

Bonus Points:

Experience with test-driven development and testing frameworks

Familiar with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog

Experience with JS frameworks, both frontend and backend

Mobile development experience with a focus on iOS and/or Android

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site

Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s 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 applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process.