Senior Engineer, Chess Analysis at Chess

About Chess.com

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the leading platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. We are a fully remote company of 600+ people in 60+ countries, serving a global community of over 200 million players. Our mission is to provide the best possible product, content, and tools for the chess community, and we combine tech, gaming, and content expertise to deliver at scale.

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Engineer to join the Chess Analysis team. You will help ship improvements to the world’s largest chess analysis cluster and maintain the cross-platform C++ chess analysis library that powers bots, Coaches, Fairplay, Game Review, Advanced Stats, and other features used by millions every day. This is a full-time, fully remote role that welcomes engineers passionate about high-quality, high-performance code and scalable distributed systems.

What You’ll Do

• Ship improvements to the chess analysis cluster that serves Game Reviews and other analysis features to millions of players.
• Design, extend, optimize, and maintain the cross-platform C++ chess analysis library used across product components.
• Contribute developer automation and tooling that accelerates the team, for example CI/CD workflows or integrations with collaboration platforms.
• Participate in system architecture and API design discussions at the application and distributed-systems level.
• Own end-to-end delivery from design through implementation, deployment, and support, and help the team move faster with practical automation.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with production expertise in C++, Go, or Python, and strong proficiency in at least one of these languages.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, API design, deployment and operations practices, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Protocol Buffers or similar serialization frameworks is helpful.
• Fluency with Git and GitHub workflows, including branching strategies and code review processes.
• Linux/Unix proficiency for scripting, debugging, and production operations.
• Familiarity with modern developer productivity tools and AI coding assistants, and the ability to use them to increase velocity and quality.
• Strong ability to learn new technologies, context-switch across languages and domains, and take full ownership of features and systems.

About You

You are proud of shipping high-quality, high-performance code and enjoy working with a collaborative team. You are humble, enjoy a bit of humor, and are passionate about chess and building great player experiences. You embrace ownership, learn quickly, and enjoy tackling unfamiliar technical challenges.

Opportunity Details

This is a full-time role on a fully remote team. Chess.com has served more than two billion chess games and continues to scale its analysis and game services to reach even more players. You will be joining a mission-driven, flat, and life-celebrating culture that values impact and craftsmanship. Learn more about how our virtual team works together and about the company at the links below.

How Chess.com virtual team works together

About Chess.com

How to Apply

Apply via the link on the job page. The hiring process includes evaluating your production experience, system design and coding ability, and fit with our remote, collaborative culture.