Senior Java Engineer

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Software Engineering

🗓️ February 15th, 2024

Java

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 700+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 100M+ 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, supporting systems in production, and you enjoy working with a team of awesome developers. 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! We have served more than two BILLION chess games, and we need you to help take us to 10 billion and beyond.

What You’ll Do

You will work with service-based architecture and cloud native apps to maintain system efficiency and security
You will write code. A lot of it!
Collaborate with team members to design and ship the best for Chess and chess.com

Required Skills

Strong knowledge of Java 11+
Understanding of functional and reactive programming models (Reactor would be nice!)
Practice in building cloud native applications
Passionate about delivering high-quality code
Experience with Docker
Experience with RESTful web services
Experience with SQL and NoSQL storages (e.g. Mysql, DynamoDB)
Eagerness to constantly develop and learn new things
Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
Sense of ownership and responsibility
Chess player

Bonus Skills