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 185M+ 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’re a creative software engineer with an passion for architecture and software design. You’ve built software for fun. You’re a regular chess player. When there’s a problem, you can think of more than one way to solve it. You care about your code’s correctness, clarity and structure. You’ve shipped bugs to production, found them and fixed them.
About the Team (Core Chess)
The Core Chess team is responsible for Chess.com’s most “chess-intensive” and customized technologies: game analysis, puzzle generation and rating, custom bots, text-generation systems, our proprietary chess computation library and more. We are actively building many new products and features to make chess easier to learn and more enjoyable for a broader range of people. With your help, we are bringing the joy of chess to the world!
What you'll do
- Work on software that millions of people use to learn and understand chess.
- Join a team writing chess algorithms and their surrounding infrastructure to recognize everything interesting about any move, piece, position or game.
- Developing engine-based chess bots, coaches, and puzzles.
- Plan, build, test, deploy, debug, refine, and enjoy.
Preferred Skills
- 5+ years of experience in professional C/C++.
- Typescript, Java/Kotlin, Go, Swift/ObjC, and Python experience is a plus.
- Chess engine development experience is a plus.
About the Opportunity
- This is a full-time opportunity
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
