Senior Backend Product Engineer, Chess.com
PHP
Online chess platform
Job no longer available
Online chess platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help people enjoy their lives through the game of chess.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years PHP experience (Symfony preferred)
- Multidisciplinary - familiar with many application stacks
- Concise communicator
- Holistic integrator
- Complexity simplifier
- Unorthodox thinker
- Experience with across programming softwares such as MySQL, Git & GitHub, Doctrine, Redis, PHPUnit/PHPSpec, Resque, and Development VMs: Vagrant/VirtualBox
- Excellent understanding of software design and architectural patterns
- 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
- Chess player
- Lifelong learner
- You are a product-minded multidisciplinary engineer who excels at working closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Frontend Developers at every stage of the product development cycle
- You have a high tolerance for technical spec ambiguity during the early phases of product discovery. You cut through complexity while offering simplified solutions that maximize output and future-proofing
- Your holistic understanding of product development and in-depth experience of software engineering principles, such as SOLID, are foundational to your nuanced architectural decisions. Being a naturally unorthodox thinker, you can confidently seek out innovative solutions for recurring development challenges
- 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 the job involves
- Work with a multidisciplinary team to design and build the best possible chess experience using the most relevant software engineering principles
- Build and optimize backend systems, scaling for a global top 200 website
- Contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions
- Contribute to the backend development team knowledge-base, and mentor junior developers
- This is a full time or equivalent position
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
- This is open to applicants from anywhere!
Our take
Chess is a timeless game of logic that has been around for nearly 1,500 years, and public interest in the game has become increasingly competitive. The game is now well grounded as a discipline that can be studied, enjoyed with friends, or pushed to its limits - a challenge that depends on access to the right chess resources.
Chess.com provides an online chess platform, hosting casual and competitive games for players, as well as strategic puzzles, videos and other educational content. The website also serves as a hub for all chess-related news and social media and has ultimately driven the growing success of online chess as an eSport.
Whilst online chess is never going to replace the age-old tradition of competing at a physical chess board, Chess.com has set the standard for online chess. Through its optimized online chess platform and educational content, the company aims to democratize the logic behind chess and make it more fun and accessible than ever to play.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Hillcrest, Orem, UT
Leadership
Erik Allebest
(Founder & CEO)CEO and Founder of Chess.com since 2006. Guest Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Has been a Seed Investor for SEOcrawl since 2021 and Investor for Landover since 2022.
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