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 love chess and want to help bring it to players around the world. You’re curious, creative, and eager to learn from a team that’s building the future of online chess. This internship is a chance to grow your frontend skills, contribute to real projects used by millions, and collaborate with teammates who are passionate about great design, clean code, and creating a meaningful user experience
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You naturally resonate with a mix of the following qualities and are eager to learn how they can serve as the foundation for your career:
- Multidisciplinary: You’re comfortable switching between different subjects and areas of focus with ease.
- Resilient: You can tolerate ambiguity and stay adaptable during the early discovery phases of projects.
- Ability to Simplify: You can absorb complex information and distill it into clear, straightforward solutions.
- Agile: You maximize productivity while remaining adaptable for future growth and iteration.
- Holistic: You understand how the parts of a project fit together to achieve broader goals—and how that project contributes to the company’s larger mission.
- Unorthodox: You’re not afraid to find creative, unconventional solutions to technical limitations.
- Logical Intuition: You balance structured, logical thinking with intuitive insight and gut instinct.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with a multidisciplinary team to design and build great chess experiences while learning from experienced engineers and designers:
- Develop clean, responsive, and accessible user interfaces with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Help improve site performance and user experience by optimizing Core Web Vitals
- Support quality efforts through automated end-to-end testing and debugging
Preferred Skills
- Javascript/Typescript
- Component architectures such as Vue, React, Svelte (Vue preferred)
- CSS and preprocessors like SASS
- Chess player
- Sense of ownership and responsibility
- Excellent communicator and team player
- Degree-seeking student currently enrolled at a college or university or equivalent bootcamp
- Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
About the Opportunity
- This is a paid internship opportunity
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
- This role is open to candidates who can work in the United States or Canada
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