Engineering Intern (Hit It Rich)- Summer 2025

Toronto, Canada

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

Position Overview:

Do you want to define what online PLAY means?  We're looking for a developer to join our Hit It Rich team.

Our mission is to “Connect the World through Games” by building a truly social experience that makes the world a better place.  To be successful in this role you will have a passion for games, a high level of integrity, a positive attitude, great technical depth and skills, and a strong desire to build successful software.

Zynga developers don't just develop some of the world's largest games, we deliver them on some of the world's largest infrastructures.  We drive innovation in all facets of game design, web technologies, and massive scalability.  Zynga faces several challenges unique to our situation:  the large data requirements & concurrency in online gaming require us to push boundaries to discover the best solutions continually.  Our developers are willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to solve a challenge. If a conventional solution doesn't exist, we innovate as necessary!

What You'll Do: 

  • Work with an experienced team to help build innovative new features
  • Enhance, optimize, fix, and harden existing features
  • Brainstorm new ideas for features, optimizations, and improvements with the team
  • Collaborate with other disciplines and teams in a fast-paced agile environment
  • Learn the latest technologies and best practices with your mentor 

What You Bring: 

  • Enrolled in computer science, engineering, or related technical discipline
  • Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms
  • Experience with one or more of: JavaScript/Html, C#, Php, another statically typed language (Java, C/C++)
  • Familiarity with agile practices and overall development lifecycle is a bonus
  • Experience with version control and continuous integration tools is good to have
  • Knowledge of Unity or another game engine is a bonus
  • Passion for games and making great products

What We Offer You

  • Daily lunches, tons of snacks and beverages 
  • Zynga happy hours and frequent employee events
  • Flexible working hours on many teams
  • Casual dress every single day
  • Culture of diversity and inclusion including employee resource groups
  • Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players

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).  

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