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

• Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs.
• Develop and oversee testing schedules in a client-server environment, addressing all browsers and devices to ensure various devices display the desired content.
• Produce quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed.
• Recommend system solutions by comparing the advantages and disadvantages.
• Write code and tests, build prototypes, solve issues, profile, and analyze bottlenecks.
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems on the cloud.
• Manage and optimize scalable database systems on the cloud.
• Optimization of web applications for performance and scalability.
• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing.
• Build a roadmap - identify goals and themes for development and solve the most important challenges to legitimize the product concept.
• Collect feedback to continue expansion and enhancements, keep growing the product roadmap, and set new strategic goals for the product.
• Assess competitor products and identify the key requirements for product or upgrades.
• Suggest changes to current product lines to improve business processes.

Back End Developer

• Expand and strengthen core P2P networking and storage primitives
• Work on wide surface area of P2P technology

P2P Node.js Engineer

• Design and implement scalable, efficient, and secure enterprise-level software architectures across our .NET stack.
• Write, test, and debug complex code for high-load systems with strict latency and reliability requirements.
• Deliver clean code to production in a timely manner, balancing business speed with technical excellence.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across CPU, memory, I/O, and database layers.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to enforce strict code quality, security, and industry best practices.
• Develop and enforce testing protocols to guarantee software reliability and flawless production performance.
• Implement and monitor production observability frameworks, including logging, metrics, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
• Create and maintain concise, meaningful technical documentation for system designs and architecture.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, actively fostering their technical growth.
• Partner with Delivery Managers to lead and manage software development projects, ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Collaborate closely with product management, design, and operations teams to align technical execution with business goals.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into clear project updates.

Senior Full-Stack .NET Engineer – Node.js, Go

• Providing technical guidance and expertise to the team.
• Supporting architectural and technology-related decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
• Mentoring team members on a regular basis to promote professional growth and knowledge sharing.
• Fostering a culture of empowerment, innovation, and effective problem-solving within the team.
• Participating actively in code reviews to ensure high standards of code quality and maintainability.
• Taking part in Agile ceremonies and contributing to continuous team improvement.
• Identifying, assessing, and helping resolve technical risks, issues, and project impediments.
• Delivering constructive technical feedback and conducting reviews to support team success.
• Resolving technology-related challenges that may hinder development progress.

Senior Software Engineer – .NET, React, Azure

• Design and iterate on landing pages, onboarding flows, and key funnel touchpoints (including paywall moments).
• Take things end-to-end: map the journey, write and refine copy, and make sure the experience feels cohesive.
• Turn fuzzy goals (“improve activation”, “increase paywall conversion”) into clear hypotheses and experiments that can ship quickly.
• Partner with the acquisition PM and engineers to run fast loops: build, launch, learn, iterate.
• Use data (Amplitude, A/B tests, funnel drop-offs, CPA, conversion) to prioritize what to test next and measure what changed.
• Create variations for different channels and search intent clusters, and keep raising the bar on visual quality as you go.
• Communicate clearly with the team: document edge cases, define states, and set engineering up to move quickly without losing craft.
• Bring great references, good taste, and a practical “let’s ship it” mindset to help strengthen design culture.

Growth Product Designer

• Design, build, and operate the backend services powering Super Dispatch's platform for carriers and shippers in the U.S. vehicle transportation industry
• Own multiple backend services end-to-end — architecture, REST APIs, databases
• Own third-party API integrations — implementation, cost control, rate-limiting, and ongoing maintenance
• Contribute to backend technical standards and best practices
• Own observability tooling — dashboards, alerting, and SLA tracking for services
• Participate in the backend on-call rotation as first responder for production incidents
• Lead the QA partnership on test strategy
• Translate product requirements into technical specs and own technical scope
• Collect Support feedback and iterate on API usability and documentation
• Collaborate with Design and Frontend on API contracts and payloads

Senior Backend Engineer, Python

• Developing highly efficient computation kernels and client-side infrastructure to accelerate the neural network inference / DSP pipeline
• Working with an international team of R&D Engineers
• Contributing to one of the most exciting and popular music production tools on the market
• Having direct influence on systems, product, and architecture

C++ Backend Optimization Engineer

• Work closely with enterprise IT teams to design analytics and data solutions aligned to business strategy
• Define architecture patterns for ingestion, transformation, and serving layers
• Establish best practices for Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and orchestration
• Guide pod-based delivery teams
• Define development standards for pipelines, notebooks, and CI/CD
• Optimize pipelines for performance and cost
• Integrate Databricks with Azure ecosystem and Power BI
• Implement governance using Unity Catalog
• Define reusable frameworks and templates

Data Platform Architect, Databricks

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products.
• Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements.
• Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides.
• Provide feedback on code reviews.
• Contribute to the shared codebase.
• Debug and solve technical and business issues.
• Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers.
• Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform.
• Implement interfaces with performance, accessibility, and API design in mind.
• Redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to deliver outcomes faster.
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase so teams can apply them repeatedly across domains.
• Use verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.

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