About UsChess.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 support 185M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!We are a tech company, a gaming company, and a content company, all driven by 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 ChessKidChessKid.com is the world's #1 chess site for kids and the scholastic extension of Chess.com.
ChessKid is dedicated to growing the game of chess for kids around the world, providing a fun, educational, and safe place for kids to learn and play chess.Position: Engineering Team LeadWe are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to help make chess more fun and enjoyable for kids!
In this role, you will use your team leadership, organizational, and hands-on coding skills to maintain a seamless platform experience.About YouYou take pride in shipping high-quality, high-performance code and enjoy working with a team of awesome developers.
You are humble with a sense of humor and don't take yourself too seriously.
You have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!What You'll DoSupport ChessKid engineering across the full stack - frontend, backend, iOS, and Android.Work with the broader Chess.com engineering team on infrastructure and systems integration.Ensure that our user-facing products are built with high quality and velocity.Partner with product and engineers to itemize projects into chunks, predict value delivery, and support prioritization.Continuously improve developer efficiency by investing in testing, CI/CD, shared libraries, and best practices.Mentor and teach colleagues to level up their skills and knowledge.Coach and lead by designing relationships that build trust and support the people around you.Preferred SkillsStrong technical leadership skills (PHP, iOS, Android, MySQL, Java).Constant desire for learning and adaptability to change.Servant leadership.About the OpportunityThis is a full-time opportunity.
We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!).
This position is open to applicants from anywhere.You can learn more about us here: Chess.com Virtual Team | About Chess.com #J-18808-Ljbffr