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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 are here to support 200M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And 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 love building games, tinkering with logic, and thinking a few moves ahead. You’re a strong coder who knows how to turn complex rules and edge cases into elegant, playable experiences. You care about performance, precision, and player delight. You might even have built your own chess engine—or at least been curious enough to try.You want your work to bring joy to millions of players, and you’re excited by the idea of inventing and perfecting new ways to play the world’s oldest game.What you'll doBuild and expand our collection of Chess Variants (chess.com/variants), developing new rule sets and creative game typesWork closely with our design, backend, and gameplay teams to ensure smooth, bug-free experiences across all platformsWrite clean, efficient, well-documented code in TypeScript, Vue 3, and NodeJS/DenoCollaborate with engineers and community members to brainstorm, test, and refine new ideasDebug tricky edge cases and maintain rock-solid performance for real-time playPreferred SkillsStrong TypeScript and NodeJS (or Deno) experienceExpertise in Vue 3 and modern component-based frontendsFamiliarity with chess programming, such as engine logic, move validation, or rule variantsExperience creating multiplayer or interactive browser-based games is a plusComfortable collaborating across teams and time zonesChess player or enthusiast (bonus if you love weird variants!)Creative, curious, and always learningAbout the OpportunityThis is a full-time positionWe are 100% remote (work from anywhere, ideally in a European timezone)You can learn more about us here:https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-togetherhttps://www.chess.com/about
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