Chess Learning Engine Developer

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’re a creative software engineer with an interest in chess. You’ve built software for fun. You’re a regular chess player

and want to combine your software and chess skills to help teach others the game. You enjoy collaborating and iterating with partners in the product organization to deliver high-quality experiences to users. You care about your code’s correctness, clarity and structure. You’ve shipped bugs to production, found them and fixed them.

What you'll do

• Work on software that millions of people use to learn and understand chess
• Have a singular focus on improving our ability to explain every chess move, piece, position, or game
• Plan, build, test, deploy, debug, refine, and enjoy

Preferred Skills

• 2+ years professional C++ experience
• Comfort with git and github
• Experience with the full software development life cycle
• A strong chess player

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be!)

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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