Chess.com
Chess Variants Engineer
🇺🇸
Remote - US
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Full-Time
💰
TBD
💻
Software Engineering
🗓️
January 14th, 2026
TypeScript
Edtech.com's Summary
Chess.com is hiring a Chess Variants Engineer to develop new chess rule sets and creative game types, enhancing the platform's collection of chess variants. The role involves writing efficient TypeScript, Vue 3, and NodeJS/Deno code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring smooth, bug-free real-time gameplay experiences.
Highlights
- Develop new chess variants and rule sets for chess.com/variants.
- Write clean, well-documented code using TypeScript, Vue 3, and NodeJS/Deno.
- Collaborate with design, backend, and gameplay teams to deliver seamless experiences across platforms.
- Debug edge cases and maintain solid real-time performance.
- Strong expertise in TypeScript and NodeJS or Deno required.
- Proficiency with Vue 3 and modern component-based frontend frameworks.
- Chess programming knowledge, including engine logic and move validation, is preferred.
- Experience with multiplayer or interactive browser games is a plus.
- Full-time, 100% remote position ideally aligned with European time zones.
- Passion for chess, especially variants, and a collaborative mindset valued.
Chess Variants Engineer Full Description
Chess Variants Engineer
Engineering
Engineering
Remote
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 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 do
- Build and expand our collection of Chess Variants (chess.com/variants), developing new rule sets and creative game types
- Work closely with our design, backend, and gameplay teams to ensure smooth, bug-free experiences across all platforms
- Write clean, efficient, well-documented code in TypeScript, Vue 3, and NodeJS/Deno
- Collaborate with engineers and community members to brainstorm, test, and refine new ideas
- Debug tricky edge cases and maintain rock-solid performance for real-time play
Preferred Skills
- Strong TypeScript and NodeJS (or Deno) experience
- Expertise in Vue 3 and modern component-based frontends
- Familiarity with chess programming, such as engine logic, move validation, or rule variants
- Experience creating multiplayer or interactive browser-based games is a plus
- Comfortable collaborating across teams and time zones
- Chess player or enthusiast (bonus if you love weird variants!)
- Creative, curious, and always learning
About the Opportunity
- This is a full-time position
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere, ideally in a European timezone)
You can learn more about us here:
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