Engineering Manager

The posting, as Zynga wrote it

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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 engi
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for this position. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.

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