Who We Are:
mavens (formerly Storemaven) is a data technology company that aims to empower people with the tools, skills, and confidence they need to understand the world at their fingertips. Our goal is to tackle all the complex and unsolved areas of mobile publishing with innovative tools, accessible data, and scalable processes.
We’re a group of authentic, curious, intelligent, and playful problem-solvers who enjoy succeeding together. Founded in 2015 and operating as a bootstrap startup for seven years. mavens (previously Storemaven) was acquired in 2022 by mega mobile publisher Zynga/TakeTwo Inc to bring our maveness to the next level.
The Role joins the team acting as the backbone of mavens (Zynga & T2). You will build and scale the mission-critical data infrastructure that powers our products, moving data at high volumes and low latency. This is a hands-on, fast-paced role focused on ingestion, processing, and backend engineering.
What You’ll Do
- Build & Scale: Design robust, observable external data integration pipelines and backend services.
- Manage Data: Maintain data lake/warehouse layers using modern formats (Apache Iceberg, BigQuery).
- Model: Design schemas for flexibility, performance, and cost-efficiency.
- Collaborate: Work globally with engineers to integrate external APIs and support product needs.
What You Bring
- Experience: 3+ years in Data or Backend Engineering working on distributed systems.
- Core Stack: Strong Python coding and proficient SQL (optimization/modeling).
- Architecture: Deep knowledge of batch processing and event-driven architectures (i.e. Kafka, PubSub).
- Tools: Experience with Cloud (GCP/AWS), Orchestration (Airflow), and RDBMS (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Mindset: You are pragmatic, curious, and excited by real-time challenges and clear communication.
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 [email protected] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.
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. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage. 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).
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