Senior Software Developer

About the role

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.

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 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™—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. 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!

Position Overview

Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Central Technology! We focus on shared client & server tech that drives the core gameplay experience under the hood. We’re looking for outstanding engineers with a passion for technology and the desire to work in a team with dynamic strengths. The Senior Software Engineer will be working with a complementary team of software engineers to craft and maintain Zynga’s core Payments platform, which enables flawless integration with app stores, consoles, and payments processing providers. They will play a key role in helping architect, build and improve the next-gen framework for our games.

What You'll Do:

- Design, code, and develop new backend applications/services running in AWS

- Optimize and refactor existing services to improve reliability, scalability and to lower cost

- Take a hands-on approach in architecting, writing and reviewing code

- Review detailed tech plans from others, aligning with the team and Zynga-wide technical vision

- Follow engineering standard methodologies to ensure code quality, performance and reliability

- Collaborate effectively with teammates, contributing to an innovative environment of technical excellence.

- Provide production and integration support for shared technology across Zynga game

What You Bring:

- Degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering) or equivalent experience

- 4+ years of hands-on software development experience

- Experience in programming RESTful services using Java

- Solid understanding of backend server applications, web services

- Strong familiarity and experience using AWS and/or other cloud computing platforms (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)