Python Engineer

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 210M+ 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 YouYou are a product-minded multidisciplinary engineer who excels at working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Frontend Developers, and Infrastructure teams at every stage of the product development cycle.You are able to cut through complexity while offering simplified solutions that maximize output and future-proofing.Your holistic understanding of the software development lifecycle and in-depth experience delivering high quality and high performance software at scale. You are able to identify root causes and deliver solutions that scale beyond the sum of their parts.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 doLive into our values of kindness and excellence Work with a multidisciplinary team to design and build the best possible chess experience using the most relevant software engineering principlesBuild and optimize backend systems, scaling for a global top 200 websiteContribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisionsContribute to the backend development team knowledge-base, and mentor other developersPreferred SkillsMultidisciplinary - familiar with many application stacksConcise communicatorHolistic integratorComplexity simplifierUnorthodox thinker5+ years Python experience (multiple frameworks preferred)Type hinting / Static analysis tools e.g: MypyTesting frameworks e.g: PytestData processing libraries eg: PandasPython package managers eg: Poetry, uvFamiliarity with ML infrastructure and ops frameworks e.g: MetaflowExperience with MySQL, Git & GitHub, Doctrine, Redis, DockerExcellent understanding of software design and architectural patternsExperience with SQL schema design and query optimizationExperience with command line and Unix systemsExperience working with a fully distributed teamSense of ownership and responsibilityChess playerLifelong learnerAbout the OpportunityThis is a full-time or equivalent positionWe are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)