Engineering Manager

Job description

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 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. What You'll Do: • 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 • Balance maintenance of a wide variety of live services and tools with updates and forward-looking enhancements and refactoring initiatives. What You Bring: • B.Sc. 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 • Ability to manage, mentor and lead a distributed team of engineers. • 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 • Updates knowledge constantly, always seeking to learn about new technologies • Excellent communication skills Bonus Points: • Experience defining and maintaining SLOs for live services</p&g