Senior PHP Backend Engineer — Gaming Platform

Zynga Early Careers; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 98,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid holidays & vacation time

Job summary

Zynga is seeking a server‑side engineer in the Chicago or Austin area with at least four years of software development experience. You will contribute to user‑facing features, gameplay functionality, and existing systems while solving challenging problems on high profile titles.

The ideal candidate has strong PHP skills and a solid backend foundation, plus excellent communication in a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years industry experience as a Software Developer.
• Strong working knowledge in an object‑oriented backend language like PHP.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Help to develop features and gameplay functionality in PHP.
• Dive into the internals of existing systems to extend them as needed.
• Create and work with data objects in relational and non-relational storage models.
• Develop and integrate new technologies and tools.
• Assist with defining and scoping out work.

Skills

PHP

Backend development

Communication

Object-oriented programming

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science

Tools

Git

Job description

Zynga is seeking a server‑side engineer in the Chicago or Austin area with at least four years of software development experience. You will contribute to user‑facing features, gameplay functionality, and existing systems while solving challenging problems on high profile titles.

The ideal candidate has strong PHP skills and a solid backend foundation, plus excellent communication in a collaborative team environment.