Chess.com

Infrastructure Engineer

• Ship improvements to the world’s largest chess game analysis cluster that serves fun and educational Game Reviews to millions of chess players every day
• Design, extend, optimize and maintain our cross-platform C++ chess analysis library that powers our bots, Coaches, Fairplay, Game Review, Advanced Stats and more
• Proactively contribute developer automation/tooling for helping the team move faster via useful CI/CD workflows or Slack integrations
• Contribute to system architecture & API design discussions at the application and distributed system levels

Analysis Infrastructure Engineer

Marketing

• Broadcast Integration: Operationalize the integration of product marketing notes and messaging into live broadcast, video content, and the content that we produced with third parties.
• Run of Show: Manage the Marketing Run of Show elements, develop compelling Breaktime Content schedules alongside the other content arms of Chess.com.
• Marketing Lead in Broadcast: Act as the marketing lead within broadcast rooms, empowered to ensure product marketing objectives are met and given a solid footing within content.
• Video Approvals: Serve as a key approver within the marketing sphere for video content, ensuring alignment with brand standards and marketing goals.
• Asset Creation & Execution: Responsible for the ideation and execution of our product integration and campaign-based visuals aimed at engaged users.
• Asset Upkeep: Maintain, refresh, and update all evergreen marketing assets to ensure they remain current and compelling for our audience.
• Visual Strategy: Partner with the marketing leadership on overall voice considerations and visual strategy to define how we resonate with lower-funnel, higher-engagement members.
• Reporting: Accountable for reporting on the performance and effectiveness of our first-party marketing efforts, as well as collaborations with other partners.
• Operational Partnership: Collaborate with Marketing and Video Operations to prioritize product marketing tasks and initiatives.

Creative Marketing Specialist

Growth Marketing

• Monitor social media, sports, and entertainment news to identify trending moments
• Create and post content that connects chess to current conversations
• Identify, analyze, and forecast emerging trends and cultural shifts
• Act as a key voice of the brand
• Pitch and execute bold content ideas and social stunts
• Work closely with Social Media and Partnerships teams

Social Growth Specialist

iOS Engineer

• Work on our main iOS app (iOS + watchOS) as well as in the rest of our ecosystem (Events, Chess Clock, iMessage apps and more!)
• Work on code that can be easily shared between our apps
• Improve the quality for millions of players with automated testing, modular architecture, and reliable developer experience
• Collaborate across teams (designers, managers, analysts, coaches, titled players)

Affiliate Manager

• Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles and teams, focusing on attracting high-quality talent across various disciplines
• Work with strategic partners in the People function and across teams to ensure a seamless, efficient, positive experience for both candidates and hiring managers
• Build and maintain a network of candidates through various sourcing strategies
• Contribute to efforts to build and enhance our employer brand, ensuring we are recognized as a competitive, unique place to work
• Work closely with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, job specifications, and team culture to ensure alignment, while also collaborating with other team members on our process
• Support the collection and organization of accurate recruitment data to help inform insights on hiring trends and key metrics
• Deliver a consistently excellent candidate experience, providing clear communication, timely feedback, and a transparent, culturally-aligned hiring process
• Remain current on industry trends, technologies, and competitive hiring strategies
• Work with the People Team and other stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition from offer acceptance to onboarding, helping new team members feel prepared and welcomed
• Contribute to evolving our recruiting practices and participate in team-wide projects and process improvements
• Actively participate in our lean, flexible team; doing whatever is needed to keep the broader People team moving forward smoothly.

Talent Partner

Backend Engineer

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design and build the best possible chess experience using modern technologies.
• Develop and optimize backend systems to support a global, top-200 website at scale.
• Participate in technical discussions around architecture, workflows, and design decisions.
• Contribute to team documentation and help strengthen the backend knowledge base.

Engineering Internship, Backend

Software Engineer

• Automate business and IT operations through data-driven workflows and AI tools
• Build metrics pipelines, reporting dashboards, and intelligent automation systems
• Contribute to Chess.com’s internal MarTech and AI platforms
• Prototype and experiment with internal AI-powered bots and assistants

Engineering Internship, AI/ML

Frontend Engineer

• 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

Engineering Internship, Frontend

DevOps Engineer

• Lead the design and optimization of cloud-native services using Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps tools like ArgoCD
• Develop high-performance integration patterns and manage scalable, distributed systems handling extensive data volumes
• Dive into Golang and TypeScript codebases to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at scale
• Optimize infrastructure and application code to achieve aggressive performance and reliability targets, with a focus on chess programming at the bits level
• Work closely with development teams to refine cloud service integration architectures and implement best practices
• Monitor and enhance system reliability and performance through effective collaboration and innovative solutions
• Participate in incident response for critical infrastructure issues, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal downtime
• Drive improvements in infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Utilize Terraform and Kubernetes to manage and scale our cloud infrastructure, ensuring robust, automated deployment processes

Senior SRE – Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure

3D Artist

• Partner closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, Marketers, Copywriters, Engineers, and other stakeholders to translate goals into effective motion design
• Conduct exploratory motion design work with product teams
• Design and animate illustrations that excite and delight our players for modals, in-game celebrations, and across our UI
• Design fun and responsive micro-interactions
• Contribute to and help evolve our motion design system

Product Motion Designer

Product Designer

• Craft high-quality, responsive designs for both mobile and web native platforms, focusing on first-time user experience, user growth and monetization.
• Design and optimize top-of-funnel experiences, conversion flows, and customer retention initiatives.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Marketers, Copywriters, Engineers, and other stakeholders to translate goals and requirements into effective UI designs.
• Design landing pages, top-level interfaces, registration flows, product marketing integrations, and sales pages.
• Create and iterate on designs that improve user onboarding, engagement tactics, upgrade nudges, and premium membership flows.
• Own your designs from initial concept through to implementation, ensuring consistency across platforms and touch points.
• Present your design proposals and clearly articulate your decisions, backing them up with contextual rationale, user insights, and best practices.
• Collaborate on Growth initiatives that focus on onboarding and Monetization strategies, including upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

Product Designer, Growth

Account Executive

• Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close with K-12 districts, schools, and educational organizations
• Identify, engage, and qualify leads through outreach, events, referrals, and inbound opportunities
• Deliver compelling presentations and demos tailored to administrators, principals, and district leaders
• Consistently build and manage a healthy pipeline of opportunities to achieve and exceed quota
• Execute land-and-expand strategies to grow ChessKid adoption within districts
• Partner with leadership on territory planning and account prioritization
• Ensure smooth onboarding of new customers, working with the Sales Coordinator and Customer Success team
• Clearly document customer needs, goals, and implementation details in the CRM
• Collaborate with Customer Success to ensure satisfaction and identify upsell/renewal opportunities
• Own assigned renewal accounts, keeping relationships strong and positioning ChessKid for expansion
• Use Slack, CRM, and other sales tools to stay aligned with cross-functional teams
• Share market insights, competitor intelligence, and customer feedback with leadership to inform GTM strategy
• Contribute to team meetings, trainings, and process improvements

Developer Relations

• Chess.com is a leading gaming site and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess
• Work on internal tooling used by developers every day
• Build custom systems, workflows, and automations to improve Developer Experience across teams
• Aim to improve CI/CD workflows by making them faster and maintaining tooling as scale grows
• Maintain front-end dependencies and routinely resolve security vulnerabilities
• Full-time opportunity; 100% remote (work from anywhere!)

Developer Experience Engineer

Product Manager

• Create and manage the roadmap and design of registration, first time user experience, and free-to-paid user flow
• Optimize our New user flow by determining: Best registration flow for kids; First time user experience to create immediate "stickiness" for the free
• Optimize our subscription conversion rate by determining: How, where, and when we promote our Premium product on our free tier
• The ideal commerce flow to drive our users to transact
• Relentlessly drive outcomes and learnings through high-velocity A/B testing
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional counterparts in engineering, marketing, data etc
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in Growth and CRO

Senior Product Manager, Growth & Monetization

Operations

Ad Operations Manager

Analyst

• Work at Chess.com! Payments Fraud Analyst Payments Fraud Analyst 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 data, patterns, and catching the bad guys. You enjoy tugging on small threads of information that reveal larger schemes and resolving these threats to our platform and our users, knowing you are protecting people. You help safeguard our community and our team by leveraging your critical thinking skills to find patterns, explore the unknown, recognize anomalies, and ensure our safety and efficiency. We are seeking a self-starter with subject matter expertise in both payments fraud and malicious account activity, including message fraud and bot activity. While your background may be stronger in either payments fraud or account security, you are a capable, flexible all-rounder who can pivot as needed to support both functions. What you'll do Own the day-to-day operational and detection functions for payment fraud. Stand up monitoring for transactions, account activity, and customer behavior to detect potential fraudulent patterns. Protect our assets and costs by minimizing fraud loss, mitigating risk exposure, and providing optimal customer service while not jeopardizing good faith members. Stay current on industry trends and best practices regarding financial crime processes and procedures in eCommerce (card not present transactions). Establish and maintain alerting and reporting for fraud detection and trend analysis. Provide insight to the team to mitigate financial and reputational risks. Monitor & delivery reporting on refusal reasons. Collaborate with internal teams (Customer Support, Compliance, Legal, IT Security) to resolve fraud cases effectively and to close accounts related to payment fraud activities and propose preventive controls. Participate in design, testing and optimization of fraud detection systems with Payment backend developers. Perform additional duties as assigned. Qualifications 7+ years of experience in payments fraud and operational experience in one or more of the following areas: ecommerce {card not present transactions}, fraudulent card testing, or general payments fraud. 7+ years of experience in fraud detection, investigation, or risk management. Skilled in risk profile management and fraudulent controls and rules and risk processes to combat ecommerce fraud (Ayden preferred). Experience with fraud mitigation in a high volume transaction environment. Prior engagement with fraud prevention and development teams is required. We are seeking a team player with strong attention to detail, excellent problem-solving abilities, good communication skills, and a proven capacity for critical thinking to identify and address complex fraud cases. Experience with BigQuery and other SQL are a must. Preferred Skills Experience in the gaming industry. Experience with tooling, reporting and instrumentation platforms like Amplitude, Datadog, ELK, MaxMind, etc. Experience in establishing payment fraud prevention processes, reporting, and trend analysis. Experience on mitigating fraudulent activity in Adyen portal thru 3DS rule creation, management of Trust & Block lists, VAMP monitoring and PSP transactional reporting. Experience in e-commerce, fintech or banking industries preferred. Knowledge of data analysis tools is an advantage. About the Opportunity This is a full-time position. We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!). While we are a global, remote company - this role is best suited with flexibility to support time zones in the Americas (some working hours from 9-12am MDT). --- 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 Apply now G&A Remote Share on: Apply now Terms of service Privacy Cookies Powered by Rippling