Senior Java Engineer

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Software Engineering

🗓️ April 7th, 2025

DynamoDB Kafka Kubernetes

Edtech.com's Summary

Chess.com is hiring a Senior Java Engineer. The role involves working with service-based architecture and cloud-native applications to maintain system efficiency and security. This position requires writing substantial amounts of high-quality code as part of an experienced development team.

Highlights

Maintain system efficiency and security using service-based architecture
Write significant amounts of high-quality Java 17+ code
Experience in building cloud-native applications
Familiarity with RESTful web services and IDL such as Protocol Buffers
Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, DynamoDB, or MongoDB
Understanding of functional and reactive programming models
Participation in a 100% remote, globally distributed team
Full-time position

Senior Java Engineer Full Description

Senior Java Engineer

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 185M+ 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 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!

Preferred Skills

Strong knowledge of Java 17+
Practice in building cloud native applications
Passionate about delivering high-quality code
Experience with RESTful web services and IDL (e.g. Protocol Buffers)
Experience with SQL and NoSQL storages (e.g. Mysql, DynamoDB, Elastic/MongoDB)
Understanding of functional and reactive programming models (Reactor would be nice!)
Eagerness to constantly develop and learn new things
Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
Sense of ownership and responsibility
Lifelong learner

Bonus Skills

Chess player
Experience in writing software running at scale
Experience with message logs (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, Redis)
Experience with Kubernetes

About the Opportunity

This is a full-time opportunity
We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)

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Original Job Description

Senior Java Engineer

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

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!

Preferred Skills

Strong knowledge of Java 17+
Practice in building cloud native applications
Passionate about delivering high-quality code
Experience with RESTful web services and IDL (e.g. Protocol Buffers)
Experience with SQL and NoSQL storages (e.g. Mysql, DynamoDB, Elastic/MongoDB)
Understanding of functional and reactive programming models (Reactor would be nice!)
Eagerness to constantly develop and learn new things
Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
Sense of ownership and responsibility
Lifelong learner