What is waiting for you?

At Zynga Turkey, we are proud to be the studio behind some of the most popular titles in our Plus portfolio, including 101 Okey Plus, Gin Rummy Plus, Spades Plus, and Backgammon Plus. These games have been enjoyed by tens of millions of players around the world and continue to shape the social gaming experience.

We are now looking for an experienced Senior Mobile Game Engineer to join our team and directly contribute to the continued success and stability of our beloved titles. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape the vision and roadmap of games enjoyed by millions of players every day, leveraging data, insights, and creativity to drive product strategy and growth. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in design, engineering, and analytics to deliver world-class player experiences, while being part of Zynga’s strong product culture where innovation, collaboration, and a player-first mindset are at the heart of everything we do.

What You'll be doing?

Keeping our tens of millions of happy players in mind;

• Contributing to the development of current and new games using Unity engine
• Participating in project planning and estimation
• Researching, designing and implementing solutions which will enhance services
• Seeking and resolving any performance and scalability challenges
• Work as part of a team with other talented developers, designers and artists on the game team
• The chance to improve yourself inside Zynga engineering culture
   

What you need?

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or any equivalent department
• 3/4+ years of game development experience with at least 2 years in Unity
• Experience in the development of UI, audio, animation systems, shader effects
• Good CPU and GPU optimization skills
• Deep understanding of the mobile platforms and their specific requirements
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, coding, and testing patterns
• Eager to search/discuss/share information about new technologies & tools
• Comfortable with speaking/reading English
• Having analytical, practical problem-solving skills
   

What is nice to have?

• Experience in native development for Android or IOS
• Released titles in Unity on a mobile platform is a big plus
• Experience in developing multiplayer games
• One particular area of expertise (Architecture, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Network, WebGL, Client Security, …)

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.