About the job
Elevate Your Career with Zynga!
At Zynga, we unite people through the joy of gaming. As a premier force in interactive entertainment and a distinguished label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have amassed over 6 billion downloads—bringing players from 175+ countries together through enjoyment, strategy, and a touch of friendly rivalry.
Our exciting range of games includes everything from exhilarating casino experiences to grand strategy confrontations, challenging puzzles, and engaging social word games. Our beloved titles and recent releases encompass FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Wizard of Oz Slots™, Hit it Rich! Slots™, Wonka Slots™, Top Eleven™, Toon Blast™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, CSR Racing™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™—and many more!
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams stretch across North America, Europe, and Asia, collaboratively crafting unforgettable gaming adventures. Whether you’re strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where entertainment converges with innovation—and where you can advance your career.
Join us and immerse yourself in the world of play!
Position Overview:
We are in search of skilled software engineers to develop services for games that are cherished by millions of players daily worldwide. These services must be capable of scaling to accommodate high user traffic and be crafted with the utmost quality demanded by this competitive sector. We anticipate our developers to maintain cutting-edge technology while also contributing innovative ideas.
What You’ll Do:
- Our backend applications utilize a variety of programming languages and technologies (Golang, PHP, AWS EC2, Kubernetes, etc.), so you should be enthusiastic about working with our legacy code, enhancing, maintaining, and continuously refactoring the backend of our games.
- Your role extends beyond just coding; you will collaborate with mobile developers, data analysts, and systems engineers to integrate your components, while also creating technical designs, documentation, and sharing knowledge, as well as training other team members.
- As a backend engineer, you will be integrated into our games team and work closely with game design, player experience, mobile, and other departments, participating in business decisions as part of our technology strategy.

