Chess.com

Backend Engineer

• Design and architect database systems optimized for Chess.com's specific workloads including real-time gaming, puzzle systems, and social graph traversal
• Build internal tooling and automation to improve database deployment, migration, and operational efficiency, simplifying work streams for the broader engineering organization
• Develop data pipelines and ETL processes for analytics, machine learning features, and cross-system data synchronization
• Engineer multi-regional database architectures capable of handling massive volumes of chess games, user data, and social network interactions with minimal latency
• Solve complex data modeling challenges including chess game storage optimization, puzzle attempt tracking, and large-scale social graph representation
• Drive database platform evolution evaluating and implementing new technologies, storage engines, and architectural patterns with a bias toward continuous improvement
• Build observability and performance tooling providing deep visibility into database behavior, query patterns, and capacity trends
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to design optimal schemas, access patterns, and data layer integrations, ensuring the right people have the information they need
• Implement infrastructure-as-code practices for database provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management with high first-time-right quality
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 database availability and contribute to incident post-mortems.

Database Engineer

SEO Marketing

• Own the full lifecycle of our search and analytics data platform: capacity planning, cluster architecture, performance tuning, incident response, migration strategy, and operational excellence.
• Be the single point of deep expertise across all Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters at Chess.com.
• Hands-on with cluster internals, write ILM/ISM policies, push infrastructure changes through GitOps, and make real-time decisions about replica allocation when a cluster goes red.
• On-call ownership for Elasticsearch-related incidents: cluster health degradation, node loss, disk pressure, shard imbalance, and write rejection cascades.
• Real-time cluster triage and cross-team coordination during production incidents.
• Post-mortem authoring and systemic reliability improvements.
• Snapshot and disaster recovery management across clusters.
• Advise engineering teams on index design, mapping strategy, retention policies, and query optimization.
• Manage Kibana and OpenSearch Dashboards access and configuration for internal consumers.
• Define and maintain workload priority tiers across clusters.

Senior Elasticsearch Engineer

Copywriter

• Write onboarding words for new players
• Craft upgrade flows, paywalls, and special offers
• Own lifecycle marketing emails and messages
• Partner with performance marketing team for paid marketing copywriting
• Steward Tone & Voice for Chess.com

Senior Conversion Copywriter

Android Engineer

• Develop and maintain Chess.com's flagship Android application to serve 185M+ global chess players with high-performance, scalable mobile experiences
• Design and implement shared codebase architecture across our Android ecosystem to maximize development efficiency and code reusability
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product management, data analytics, coaching, and titled player teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions and enhance user experience
• Optimize application performance and user experience through code reviews, performance monitoring, and implementation of Android best practices
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions for mobile platform scalability and maintainability as the user base grows
• Maintain and improve development workflows to support rapid iteration and deployment cycles in a fully distributed team environment

Data Analyst

• Uncover retention and growth drivers by leveraging exploratory analytical techniques
• Dive into our data to discover insights on player behavior across different cohorts, segments, and stages of the user lifecycle, and communicate collect feedback on your findings from peers, and business and product partners
• Work with business, product, and engineering teams to [plan → design → ship → evaluate] experiments/AB-Tests, and communicate their results/impact with the company.
• Work directly in BigQuery to extract truths and trends that inform and guide business and product decisions
• Collaborate with analysts/data-scientists in building scalable, and reproducible analyses, and communicate their insights with the company
• Develop tools and best practices to ensure high data quality and identify and prevent errors before they reach production datasets

Senior Data Analyst

Manager

• Get inside the experience of real players.
• Close the loop, don't just generate insight.
• Make sure every kind of player has a seat at the table.
• Turn signal into action across the company.
• Spread the mindset.
• Own the experience.
• Lead and grow the function.
• Use AI to move fast.

Senior Manager, Player Experience

Translator

• Help translate user interfaces of all Chesscom apps (Chesscom, Chesscom Mobile, ChessKid, ChessKid Mobile, Dr Wolf, etc).
• Help translate marketing campaigns.
• Help translate Coach analysis / Game Review.
• Help translate bot chat for monthly bot events.
• Translate & edit graphical assets.
• Review previously submitted translations and ensure they're high quality.

German Translator

Engineer

• You will work with service-based architecture and cloud native apps to maintain system efficiency and security
• You will use Cursor and Claude to build technologies that are AI-first
• You will code! A lot!
• You will do code reviews
• You will ship a ton of applications to k8s and have fun with building telemetry and watching their dashboards
• You will design software serving traffic originating from millions of users

Full Stack Engineer

Data Scientist

• Own high-impact data science work across product data science and fair play
• Create and build novel algorithms, models, and data-powered features that directly shape the chess experience for our users
• Partner across the company on product vision and execution
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and writers
• Design and deploy creative heuristics, algorithms, and models that identify cheating at scale
• Raise the quality and sophistication of our approaches over time
• Manage a lean team of data scientists
• Turn strategy into clear team objectives and results
• Help data scientists grow into scientists who can operate with more speed and independence over time
• Communicate early and often

Senior Manager, Data Science

Product Designer

• Own the design of core Chess.com experiences
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Copywriters, and leadership to help define the problem and build effective product experiences together
• Design polished, intuitive interfaces for web and mobile using Chess.com’s design system
• Present your design proposals and clearly articulate your decisions, backing them up with contextual rationale, heuristics, and user insights where possible
• Build interactive prototypes to share and quickly test ideas using agentic tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Figma Make
• Own your projects from initial concept through to implementation and help ensure design-to-code alignment throughout the process
• Be proactive about proposing and designing meaningful improvements to our product that make it more fun and consistent across surfaces
• Give and seek out thoughtful design feedback to raise the bar for everyone

Product Designer – Core

Product Manager

• Shape the core product roadmap and vision.
• Identify what keeps players coming back, what causes them to leave, and what will delight them next.
• Engage with feedback from leadership and peers.
• Operate in public.
• Partner deeply with engineering, early and through to delivery.
• Define the metrics that matter for your area, build intuition for what drives them, and hold yourself accountable to moving them.
• Use AI to prototype, de-risk, and accelerate.

Senior Product Manager

Social Media Manager

• Responsible for applying the voice, content, and daily operations of Chess.com 's official Italian social media channels.
• Develops and executes a content strategy that drives engagement and grows the audience.
• Manages the day-to-day operations of Chess.com's official Italian social media channels across various platforms.
• Actively monitors and engages with conversations, trends, and key creators within the global chess community.
• Analyzes and reports social media performance data and audience insights to inform content strategy and optimize for engagement, reach, and growth.
• Collaborates with marketing, content, and events teams to plan and execute social media campaigns.

Social Media Manager, Italian

• Design simple, clear, and fun interactions for web and mobile, converting mobile designs to web experiences and vice versa
• Own projects from concept through implementation, ensuring strong design-to-code alignment
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to define problems and ship effective solutions
• Create flows, wireframes, and prototypes to explore and communicate ideas
• Use and contribute to our design system to support scalable, cohesive experiences across platforms
• Present your work and explain decisions using user needs, product context, and data
• Iterate based on feedback, product goals, user insights, and UX research
• Give and receive thoughtful design feedback