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Chess.com · 7 hours ago

Senior Backend (Java & PHP) Foundation Engineer

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
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Responsibilities

Work with a small team of highly experienced engineers on creating new, highly scalable services or help scale existing codebase and storage for a global top 200 website.
Contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions.

Qualification

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Distributed systemsPerformance tuningRelational database modelingPHPJavaKafkaRedisMySQLMongoDBCloud servicesSQL schema designQuery optimizationSoftware design patternsCommand lineUnix systemsDistributed team experienceMultidisciplinary knowledgeSense of ownership

Required

Experienced software architect
Designed and deployed distributed systems into production
Understanding of how to scale applications
Performance tuning
Relational database modeling and data access patterns
Caching
Logging
Monitoring
Alerting
Urgent response
Ability to build for and support engineers as customers
Understanding of how to design libraries and tools that simplify processes
Humble with a sense of humor
Experience working in or dreaming of working in the gaming industry

Preferred

Experience with large data sets
Experienced engineer who can adapt to ever changing needs
Excellent understanding of software design and architectural patterns
Multidisciplinary - familiar with many application stacks
PHP and Java experience
Experience with Kafka
Experience with Redis
Experience with MySQL
Experience with Mongo
Experience working with Cloud
Experience with SQL schema design and query optimization
Experience with command line and Unix systems
Experience working with a fully distributed team
Sense of ownership and responsibility

Company

Chess.com

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Chess.com is an online community for chess players to learn and discuss strategy and play with others in real-time.
dateFounded in 2007
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size501-1,000 employees
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http://www.chess.com

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$0.55M
Key Investors
General Atlantic
2022-01-14Private Equity· undefined
2018-01-01Acquired· undefined
2013-01-01Secondary Market· $0.55M

Leadership Team

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Adam Mayer
SVP of Monetization
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