Engineering Director - Software Development

Director - Engineering

Main Responsibilities :

- Effectively run and lead multiple teams of software engineers working on mobile and web games

- Track record of building successful teams and delivering and operating sophisticated software products

- Demonstrated success at developing and leading people and growing their careers

- Drive technical excellence by validating technology choices, architectural design and code quality, diving deeper when necessary

- Enable the team to succeed by identifying gaps, improving engineering process and providing growth opportunities

- Be the voice of the team in interacting with various stakeholders across disciplines both inside and outside of the organization

- Act as a conduit from executive leadership down to the team, distilling strategic direction into tactical action

- Collaborate with other technical leaders at Zynga to drive best practices and engineering culture

- Coordinate closely with other disciplines (especially Production and Product) to ensure alignment against larger organizational goals

- Collaborate with design, product, analytics, user experience, live operations, central and leadership teams to specify and build incredible game features and development tools

- Be an expert recruiter of top engineering talent

Desired Skills and Experience:

- 5+ years of experience directly managing teams of software engineers

- 8-15+ years of prior hands-on software development experience

- Solid understanding of best practices for engineering process, code quality, build/release pipelines, security and live operations

- Knowledge of the mobile landscape and emerging technologies

- Familiarity with multiple programming languages and platforms (Java, C#, C++ and/or Go)

- Familiarity with agile development methods and tools

- Full stack experience on iOS, Android and AWS/Cloud technologies

- Experience with Unity would be a plus