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Chess.com is hiring a Developer Experience Engineer to enhance the workflows and tooling used by their development teams. The role involves creating internal tools, improving CI/CD pipelines, maintaining front-end dependencies, and automating processes to support the scalable growth of their platform.

Highlights

Develop and maintain internal tools to improve developer workflows
Build custom systems, workflows, and automations for multiple teams
Optimize and maintain CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions
Manage front-end dependencies and resolve security vulnerabilities
Proficiency in TypeScript (ES6+), Node.js, and front-end bundlers like webpack and rollup
Experience with AST manipulation, custom Babel and ESLint configurations
Use Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi for scalable repository maintenance
Familiarity with containerization and cloud technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and GCP
Full-time, 100% remote position
Chess playing is a preferred qualification

Developer Experience Engineer Full Description

Developer Experience Engineer
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 care about Developer Experience, aiming to always improve the workflows of other developers by making things simpler and quicker. You care about documentation, ensuring that the tools you create enable the next developer to easily build on top of what you’ve started. 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

Work on internal tooling that is used by our developers every day
Build custom systems, workflows, and automations to help improve the Developer Experience of several teams, deployment processes, etc.
Aim to improve CI/CD workflows by making them faster and maintaining their tooling as the scale of the project grows
Maintain front-end dependencies by keeping tools up-to-date and routinely resolve security vulnerabilities

Preferred Skills

Proficiency in using TypeScript with ES6+ features (async/await, Promises, etc.)
Excellent knowledge of Node.js and its native modules, knowing that you don’t need an npm package for every single operation
Proficiency in front-end module bundlers, including webpack + rollup, being able to create custom plugins/loaders when necessary
Basic knowledge of AST manipulation, being able to write custom Babel transformations or custom ESLint rules
Excellent understanding of CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Pulumi, with a strong focus on maintaining clean, scalable, and well-structured repositories
Understanding of great UX design, ensuring the user can intuitively comprehend what’s happening under the hood
Familiarity in working with containers and cloud technology such as Docker, K8S, and GCP
Sense of ownership and responsibility
Chess player
Lifelong learner

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:

Original Job Description

Developer Experience Engineer
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.

About You

What you'll do

Work on internal tooling that is used by our developers every day
Build custom systems, workflows, and automations to help improve the Developer Experience of several teams, deployment processes, etc.
Aim to improve CI/CD workflows by making them faster and maintaining their tooling as the scale of the project grows
Maintain front-end dependencies by keeping tools up-to-date and routinely resolve security vulnerabilities

Preferred Skills

Proficiency in using TypeScript with ES6+ features (async/await, Promises, etc.)
Excellent knowledge of Node.js and its native modules, knowing that you don’t need an npm package for every single operation
Proficiency in front-end module bundlers, including webpack + rollup, being able to create custom plugins/loaders when necessary
Basic knowledge of AST manipulation, being able to write custom Babel transformations or custom ESLint rules
Excellent understanding of CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Pulumi, with a strong focus on maintaining clean, scalable, and well-structured repositories
Understanding of great UX design, ensuring the user can intuitively comprehend what’s happening under the hood
Familiarity in working with containers and cloud technology such as Docker, K8S, and GCP
Sense of ownership and responsibility
Chess player
Lifelong learner

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:

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