C++ Engineer - Core Chess

About You
You’re a creative software engineer with an interest in chess. You’ve built software for fun. You’re a regular chess player

and want to combine your software and chess skills to help teach others the game. You enjoy collaborating and iterating with partners in the product organization to deliver high-quality experiences to users. You care about your code’s correctness, clarity and structure. You’ve shipped bugs to production, found them and fixed them.

About the Team (Core Chess)

The Core Chess team is responsible for Chess.com’s most “chess-intensive” and customized technologies: game analysis, puzzle generation and rating, custom bots, text-generation systems, our proprietary chess computation library and more. We are actively building many new products and features to make chess easier to learn and more enjoyable for a broader range of people. With your help, we are bringing the joy of chess to the world!

What you'll do

• Work on software that millions of people use to learn and understand chess
• Have a singular focus on improving our ability to explain every chess move, piece, position, or game
• Plan, build, test, deploy, debug, refine, and enjoy

Preferred Skills

• 2+ years professional C++ experience
• Comfort with git and github
• Experience with the full software development life cycle
• A strong chess player

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (always have been, always will be!)

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You can learn more about us here:

• https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about