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Solo Game Developer Jobs in Texas (NOW HIRING)

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Activity Coordinator

Boerne, TX · On-site

$14.75 - $19.75/hr

Lead activities as needed, from brain fitness games to tea parties * Create printed monthly ... structured programming; support residents in self-directed/solo activities and in assuming ...

Activity Coordinator

Boerne, TX

$14.75 - $19.75/hr

Lead activities as needed, from brain fitness games to tea parties * Create printed monthly ... structured programming; support residents in self-directed/solo activities and in assuming ...

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Principal Software Developer

Principal Software Developer

Zynga

Austin, TX • On-site

Full-time

Posted 28 days ago


Job description

Job Summary:
Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment, known for its diverse portfolio of games. The Principal Software Developer will play a key role in financial analysis and data visualization within the FinOps team, ensuring effective cost management and strategic decision-making across the company's games.
Responsibilities:
• Lead financial analysis activities with regards to internal cost allocations for technology spend
• Lead data model design and data analysis aspects of the FinOps team’s software development, including close collaboration with other FinOps software engineers
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to design and iterate upon user-facing data visualizations
• Develop data ingestion and normalization to serve data visualizations and dashboards, as well as owning maintenance and ensuring ongoing data quality
• Support FinOps guidelines and work with other teams and partners to implement cost analysis and optimizations for technology spend across Zynga
• Interact with members of Finance and the C-suite with regards to technology cost allocations, forecasts, and ad hoc FinOps-related requests
Qualifications:
Required:
• B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated proficiency with Python for data cleaning and data wrangling (pandas, NumPy), and ability to work with source code via pull requests, CICD pipelines, etc
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with the following: SQL, data warehouses, Tableau or similar data visualization tools
• Ability to design monitoring rules for validating data quality within data pipelines
• Experience collaborating with customers to assess their analysis and visualization needs and design solutions that present the data effectively and clearly
• Ability to think through the UI/UX of data visualizations to best serve the target audience's needs
• Comfort interacting with stakeholders at a much more senior level, ability to adjust communication style to the audience
• Experience working autonomously and capable of tackling solo projects with ease
Preferred:
• Familiarity with FinOps practices
• Familiarity with financial concepts related to budgeting, forecasts, amortization, etc
• Previous experience with software engineering platforms such as AWS, Splunk, Datadog
Company:
Zynga is a mobile game developer that creates and operates social games as live services played on the Internet. It is a sub-organization of Take-Two Interactive Software. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.