Sr UI Front End Engineer

ZYNGA INC; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global interactive entertainment company is seeking a Senior UI FE Engineer to lead end-to-end project development. The role involves designing scalable systems and shaping engineering best practices, with a focus on React and performance-sensitive applications. Join us to take your career to the next level in an innovative environment.

Benefits

World-class benefits package

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading projects in a product-driven environment.
• Deep expertise with React in performance-sensitive applications (4+ years).
• Strong system design skills and track record of building scalable architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of new features end-to-end.
• Own complex architectural decisions and collaborate on product design.
• Define and enforce development standards across teams.

Skills

Leading projects

React expertise

System design skills

Collaborative spirit

Tools

Next.js

GCP

Job description

Overview

At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level.

Join us and be part of the play!

Position Overview

As a Senior UI FE Engineer you will play a key role in a newly formed group responsible for developing a central, business-critical product that directly drives a significant portion of the company’s revenue. You’ll be expected to lead projects end-to-end, design scalable systems, and help shape engineering best practices. Your work will directly affect the productivity, performance, and quality of our engineering at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and development of new features end-to-end — from technical spec through production deployment
• Own complex architectural decisions and collaborate on high-level product design
• Define, spread, and enforce development standards across teams
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders across teams to ensure shared understanding, ownership, and alignment
• Drive the creation of reusable, generic components and services that serve multiple web apps
• Maintain a strong focus on performance, scalability, and code quality in a system that’s critical to the entire organization

What You Bring

• Proven experience leading projects and designing systems in a fast-paced, product-driven environment
• Deep expertise with React in complex, performance-sensitive applications (4+ years)
• Strong system design skills and a track record of building maintainable, scalable architectures
• Experience with Next.js (a plus)
• Experience working with CMS platforms (a plus)
• Experience with microservices and cloud infrastructure (GCP is a plus)
• A collaborative, thoughtful engineer who enjoys helping others and driving cross-team initiatives

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

Equal Opportunity

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 [e-mail] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

Important Notices

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. 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).