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!We are a tech company, a gaming company, and a content company.
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 YouYou are an experienced software architect who has designed and deployed distributed systems into production.
You understand how to scale applications, including performance tuning, relational database modeling, data access patterns, caching, logging, monitoring, alerting, and urgent response.
You love to build for and support engineers as customers and know how to design libraries and tools that simplify their work.You are humble, have 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 DoWork with a small team of highly experienced engineers on creating new, highly scalable services or help scale the existing codebase and storage for a global top 200 website.
Contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions.Preferred SkillsExperience with large data setsAbility to adapt to ever-changing needsExcellent understanding of software design and architectural patternsFamiliarity with multiple application stacksExperience in PHP and JavaExperience with KafkaExperience with RedisExperience with MySQLExperience with MongoDBExperience working with Cloud technologiesExperience with SQL schema design and query optimizationExperience with command line and Unix systemsExperience working with a fully distributed teamSense of ownership and responsibilityAbout the OpportunityThis is a full-time opportunityWe are 100% remote (work from anywhere!
)You can learn more about us here:How Chess.Com Virtual Team Works TogetherAbout Chess.Com#J-18808-Ljbffr