Full Stack Engineer

Level Up Your Career with Zynga!

At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. 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.

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Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. 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.

Join us and be part of the play!

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will play a key role in a newly formed group responsible for building the core and shared services of a growing global R&D organization. This is a high-impact role that spans multiple products and teams across the company. You’ll be expected to lead projects end-to-end, design scalable systems, and help shape engineering best practices. Your work will directly affect the productivity, performance, and quality of our engineering at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of new features end-to-end — from technical spec through production deployment
• Own complex architectural decisions and collaborate on high-level product design
• Define, spread, and enforce development standards across teams
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders across teams to ensure shared understanding, ownership, and alignment
• Drive the creation of reusable, generic components and services that serve multiple web apps
• Maintain a strong focus on performance, scalability, and code quality in a system that’s critical to the entire organization
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript developer
• Proven experience leading projects and designing systems in a fast-paced, product-driven environment
• Deep expertise with React and Redux/Recoil in complex, performance-sensitive applications (4+ years)
• Highly fluent in TypeScript and modern JavaScript best practices
• Strong system design skills and a track record of building maintainable, scalable architectures
• Experience with Next.js (a plus)
• Experience working with CMS platforms (a plus)
• Experience with microservices and cloud infrastructure (GCP is a plus)
• A collaborative, thoughtful engineer who enjoys helping others and driving cross-team initiatives
  
  

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. 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.

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