Principal Software Engineer - Payments

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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 Principal 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, implement and maintain Payments platform features (SDK and Client)
• Provide production and integration support for shared technology across Zynga games
• Design & implement UI/UX solutions across mobile and web platforms
• Work with Product Management to translate business goals into technical requirements
• Build well-structured / maintainable code with documentation
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve reliability, scalability
• Review detailed Tech Plans from others, aligning with the team and Zynga-wide technical vision
• Proactively identify and recommend improvements to address systemic problems and tech debt

What You Bring:

• Degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering) or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience
• Shown understanding of C# language, software design patterns and OOP
• Good experience with game engines such as Unity or Unreal; have an understanding of how packages & dependencies work
• Experience with distributed & high-performance applications: APIs, SaaS, etc.
• Experience with asynchronous, multi-threaded and parallel programming paradigms
• Proficient in debugging, profiling and performance optimization of mobile and web-based applications
• Experience with all aspects of SDLC; specifically software release & version management
• Good interpersonal skills, a collaborative and proactive mentality with a sense of ownership
• Experience with agile development methodologies and tools

Bonus Points:

• One or more of: Java, Javascript, Kotlin, Objective-C, C/C++, Swift
• iOS / Android / Nintendo / Windows / other platform experience
• Good database skills including SQL
• Experience with Cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Angular, React or other Web UI
• Linux experience
• Gradle / Maven / Jenkins / Docker

What We Offer You:

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site

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