Chess.com

Senior Backend Engineer, Java, PHP

Chess.com

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in the World

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About the role

  • Work with a small team of highly experienced engineers on creating new, highly scalable services or help scale existing codebase and storage for a global top 200 website.
  • Contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions.

Requirements

  • Experience with large data sets
  • Experienced engineer who can adapt to ever changing needs
  • Excellent understanding of software design and architectural patterns
  • Multidisciplinary - familiar with many application stacks
  • PHP and Java experience
  • Experience with Kafka
  • Experience with Redis
  • Experience with MySQL
  • Experience with Mongo
  • Experience working with Cloud
  • Experience with SQL schema design and query optimization
  • Experience with command line and Unix systems
  • Experience working with a fully distributed team
  • Sense of ownership and responsibility
Benefits
  • 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PHPJavaKafkaRedisMySQLMongoCloudSQL schema designquery optimizationUnix systems
Soft Skills
adaptabilityownershipresponsibilityteam collaborationcommunication