iOS Engineer

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Software Engineering

🗓️ November 20th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Chess.com is hiring an iOS Engineer to develop and enhance their main iOS and watchOS applications along with related ecosystem products. The engineer will focus on writing high-quality, performance-oriented code, improving testing and modular architecture, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support millions of chess players worldwide.

Highlights

Develop and maintain Chess.com's main iOS app and related apps (Events, Chess Clock, iMessage apps).
Create shareable code across multiple applications to improve modularity.
Enhance app quality through automated testing and maintain a reliable developer experience.
Collaborate with designers, managers, analysts, coaches, and titled players.
Proficient in Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, UIKit, and modularization techniques.
Experience with unit testing, UI testing, snapshot testing, and continuous integration such as Xcode Cloud.
Knowledge of MVVM architecture, Combine framework, URLSession, and UI development methods.
Skills in profiling with Instruments, internationalization (i18n), accessibility (a11y), ad tech, subscriptions, and payments.
Full-time remote position supporting a global user base of over 200 million chess players.

iOS Engineer Full Description

iOS 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 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
SwiftUI, UIKit
Swift packages and modularization
Unit testing, UI testing, Snapshot testing
Continuous integration, Xcode Cloud
MVVM
Combine
URLSession (including URLSessionWebSocketTask)
UI creation (in xibs, storyboards, and code)
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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