Zynga is a leading developer of the world’s most popular social games that are played by millions of people around the world each day. To-date, more than 1 billion people have played our games across Web and mobile, including Words With Friends, FarmVille, Zynga Poker, Merge Dragons, Empires & Puzzles, Hit it Rich! Slots and CSR.

Zynga’s data science and analytics team uses our unique and expansive data to model and predict user behavior, making our games more personalized and more fun to play! We strive for a better understanding of our players which translates into challenges and features that delight them and increased social engagement within our games.

Here’s where you would come in: identify and formalize problems to understand user behavior. Create systems and analyses to derive insights that change the studio’s world view. Be innovative, be creative, use every bit of that key commodity – data. Millions of people play Zynga games every day, so our data is tremendously rich and we have a lot of it!

We will rely on you to communicate your findings to your peers – both technical and non-technical. Your solutions to difficult problems will need to be demonstrably impactful, visual and maintainable. You will work with our game teams to put your models into production. You will collaborate with Product Managers, Game Designers, and Engineers to deliver business impact, changing current practices in line with new findings and insights.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop new and innovative features played by millions of players using C#, C++, Python, JavaScript.
  • Follow The best coding practices.
  • Strong Analytical, programming and debugging skills
  • Perform Code reviews.
  • Be responsible for the Live game health
  • Closely work with other functions like PM, UI/UX, Art, QA
  • Constantly look for opportunities to improve the game performance.
  • Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes quickly
  • Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
  • 3+ years professional experience working in C#, C++, Python, Javascript
  • Proven fundamental programming skills (algorithms, data structures, OOP, OS, Networking, AWS Cloud)
  • Experience with source control management and code reviews
  • Good Communication skills and Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (UX, game design, PM) in an agile environment
Technical Skills
Python
Java
C++
JavaScript
C#
AWS
UI/UX
Is a Remote Job?
No
Employment Type
Full time

Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games. To date, more than one billion people have played Zynga’s franchises including CSR Racing™, Emp...

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