Frontend UI Developer

Who We Are:

Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile, including Star Wars™: Hunters, CSR Racing™, Dragon City, Empires & Puzzles™, FarmVille™, Golf Rival™, Hair Challenge™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, High Heels!™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Monster Legends, Toon Blast™, Top Eleven, Toy Blast™, Two Dots, Words With Friends™, and Zynga Poker™.Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or follow Zynga on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or the Zynga blog

As a Frontend UI Developer in our Foundations team, you have a pivotal role in shaping the core UI library and shared services that power our entire platform. This is not just another frontend role—your work will directly impact every product in our ecosystem, ensuring consistency, scalability, and efficiency across our growing global R&D organization.

About the team

Creating a healthy, professional and fun to work in tech organization is hard. The foundations’ team’s motivation is to allow the mavens tech org to grow efficiently.

Let developers focus on product development and integrate their work into a stable and secure environment by providing solid standards and shared services.

A Day in the Life of

1. Review developer PRs in the core packages and manage releases.
2. Support front-end developers using the core packages - implementation details, bugs, and missing functionality.
3. Add functionality, components, and new packages to our core packages according to PMs & UI/UX team requirements.
4. Advise developers, PMs, and designers on UI/UX questions and issues, whether related to the core packages or UI/UX in general.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the Foundations team and most developers across the organization and designers.
• Create and maintain code for our UI library, which all products across the platform use.
• Support front-end developers using and contributing to the core packages - implementation details, CR, docs, bugs, and missing functionality.
• Responsible for new features e2e - from the feature tech spec to the production deployment.
• Define with the team, spread, and enforce development standards.

Requirements

• Frontend Javascript developer with a proven track record working on components-based, complex products in a product-driven company setting.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with React.
• Works well with CSS
• Familiar with Typescript
• Familiar with Figma as a developer
• Ability to write clean, organized, and maintainable code, and manage very high-risk deployments, affecting all major company operations
• Familiar with Cloud Services and microservices architectures (GCP is a plus)
• Familiarity with Storybook is a plus
• Familiarity with Material UI (MUI) is a plus
• A genuinely human being, who seeks to help others, working across multiple projects and teams simultaneously, and often starting new projects.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.  Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at accommodationrequest@zynga.com to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others.  Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel.  Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage.  Zynga’s  in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).