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 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.

ChessKid.com is the world’s #1 chess site for kids and the scholastic extension of Chess.com. ChessKid is all about growing the game of chess for kids around the world. ChessKid is fun, educational, and dedicated to being a safe place for kids to learn and play chess.

We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join and help make chess more fun and enjoyable for kids! In this role you will use your team leadership, organization and hands on coding skills to maintain a seamless platform experience.

About You

You take pride in shipping 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 have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!

What you'll do

• Support ChessKid engineering across the full stack - frontend, backend, iOS and Android
• Work with the broader Chess.com engineering team on infrastructure and systems integration
• Ensure that our user facing products are being built with high quality and velocity
• Partner with product and engineers to itemize projects into chunks, predict value delivery and support prioritization
• Continuously improve the efficiency for developers by investing in testing, CI/CD, shared libraries, and best practices
• Continuously improve your craft as a mentor/teacher, designing relationships that level up your colleagues skills and knowledge
• Continuously improve your craft as a coach/leader - design relationships that build trust and support the people around you

Preferred Skills

• Strong technical leadership skills (PHP, iOS, Android, MySQL, Java)
• Constant yearn for learning and adaptability to change
• Servant leadership

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time opportunity
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This is open to applicants 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