Job Url: https://ats.rippling.com/chess/jobs/06458ce7-6bf5-4678-b18d-681622a153e6 Job Description: About You You are a product-minded multidisciplinary engineer who excels at working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Frontend Developers, and Infrastructure teams at every stage of the product development cycle. You are able to cut through complexity while offering simplified solutions that maximize output and future-proofing. Your holistic understanding of the software development lifecycle and in-depth experience delivering high quality and high performance software at scale. You are able to identify root causes and deliver solutions that scale beyond the sum of their parts. 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 do Live into our values of kindness and excellence  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 other developers Preferred Skills Multidisciplinary - familiar with many application stacks Concise communicator Holistic integrator Complexity simplifier Unorthodox thinker 5+ years Python experience (multiple frameworks preferred) Type hinting / Static analysis tools e.g: Mypy Testing frameworks e.g: Pytest Data processing libraries eg: Pandas Python package managers eg: Poetry, uv Familiarity with ML infrastructure and ops frameworks e.g: Metaflow Experience with MySQL, Git & GitHub, Doctrine, Redis, Docker 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 About the Opportunity This is a full-time or equivalent position We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!) --- 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 Apply now Engineering Remote Share on: Apply now Terms of servicePrivacyCookiesPowered