Events 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 500+ fully remote people in 70+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are also growing fast, with more than 100 million players and a large base of happy subscribers.

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 the idea of bringing over-the-board chess into the online world and are excited about building new features to make watching chess more fun. You understand chess, it’s intricacies, and are looking forward to scaling large real-time systems for delivering chess moves.

What You’ll Do

• Work on software that powers chess.com’s connection and integration with live, in person events

• Build custom systems, workflows, and automations to help improve events relay and integration

• Improve CI/CD workflows by making them faster and maintaining their tooling as the scale of the project grows

• Maintain front-end dependencies by keeping tools up-to-date and routinely resolve security vulnerabilities

• Sole responsibility for maintaining the existing 3rd-party developed service-based application while integrating and evolving it into our standard ecosystem for architecture, CI/CD and growth

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge in our current stack (Node with Koa and Knex.js, Python, React / next.js, Golang)

• Excellent knowledge of Node.js and its native modules, knowing that you don’t need need an npm package for every single operation

• Proficiency in front-end module bundlers, including webpack + rollup, being able to create custom plugins/loaders when necessary

• Excellent understanding of CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions as they relate to deploying service based applications

• Familiarity in working with containers and cloud technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, and GCP

• Sense of ownership and responsibility

• Chess player

• Lifelong learner

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time or equivalent position

• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)

You can learn more about us here:

https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-chess-com-s-100-person-virtual-team-works-together

https://www.chess.com/about