About Us
Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.
We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 200M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!
We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.
About You
You take pride in writing high-quality, high-performance code, and enjoy working with a team of awesome developers. You are humble with a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously. You are passionate about chess, and whether you've been working in or dreaming of working in the gaming industry, you're ready to turn your talents toward the game we love! We have been ranked #1 in the app store and have served more than two BILLION chess games, but we need you to help take us to 10 billion and beyond.
What you'll do
- Ship improvements to the world’s largest chess game analysis cluster that serves fun and educational Game Reviews to millions of chess players every day
- Design, extend, optimize and maintain our cross-platform C++ chess analysis library that powers our bots, Coaches, Fairplay, Game Review, Advanced Stats and more
- Proactively contribute developer automation/tooling for helping the team move faster via useful CI/CD workflows or Slack integrations
- Contribute to system architecture & API design discussions at the application and distributed system levels
Preferred Skills
- 5+ years professional software development with production experience in C++, Go, Python, with very good proficiency in at least one
- Solid distributed systems understanding including service architecture, API design, deployment and operations practices, Kubernetes, Protocol Buffers
- Git/GitHub fluency including branching strategies, code review, and multi-repo workflows
- Linux/Unix proficiency for scripting, debugging, and production operations
- AI coding tool proficiency - Possesses the necessary foundational skills to move with excellent velocity and quality using agentic coding systems
- Eagerness to learn - Excited by unfamiliar technologies rather than intimidated by them
- Gameness for variety - Great at context-switching between different languages/domains
- End-to-end ownership - Take responsibility from design → implementation → deployment → support
About the Opportunity
- This is a full-time opportunity
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
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You can learn more about us here:
- https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together
- https://www.chess.com/about
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