About Us
Chess.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 You
You take pride in writing high-quality, high-performance code, and enjoy working with a team of awesome developers. You are humble with a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously. You are passionate about chess, and whether you've been working in or dreaming of working in the gaming industry, you're ready to turn your talents toward the game we love! We have been ranked #1 in the app store and have served more than two BILLION chess games, but we need you to help take us to 10 billion and beyond.
What you'll do
- Work on our main iOS app (iOS + watchOS) as well as in the rest of our ecosystem (Events, Chess Clock, iMessage apps and more!)
- Work on code that can be easily shared between our apps
- Improve the quality for millions of players with automated testing, modular architecture, and reliable developer experience
- Cross-team collaboration (designers, managers, analysts, coaches, titled players)
Preferred Skills
- Swift, Objective-C
- MVVM, Swift Concurrency, Combine
- Modern iOS UI/UX skills (SwiftUI-first; UIKit as needed)
- Swift packages and modularization
- Unit testing, UI testing, Snapshot testing
- Continuous integration, Xcode Cloud
- URLSession (including URLSessionWebSocketTask)
- Profiling with Instruments
- i18n
- a11y
- ad tech
- subscriptions and payments
About the Opportunity
- This is a full-time opportunity
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
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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
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