Senior Fullstack Developer, Chessable & Courses at Chess

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Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 May, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

05 Feb, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Fullstack Development, PHP, MySQL, ElasticSearch, API Design, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Performance Profiling, Collaboration, Communication, AI-first Mindset, Prompt Engineering, Code Debugging, CI/CD, Design Patterns

Industry

technology;Information and Internet

Description

About You You are an experienced full-stack engineer with practical knowledge of how to build, release and maintain applications for millions of users. You understand all layers of the stack from infra + databases → devops → backend → frontend. You have internalized best practices and patterns that allow you to deliver value with quality and velocity. You evolved beyond traditional development into an AI-first engineering mindset. While your foundation is built on deep practical understanding of software and production systems, you are highly skilled at agentic orchestration. You have integrated agents into your core workflow, supervising them to focus on high-impact architectural decisions, security, and scalability. You understand that clean code and design patterns aren't just for human readability - they are essential for maintaining clear context and an AI-friendly codebase. You are a team player willing to share your wisdom and creativity with the group of talented and kind people like you. You love coding and building software for fun. You played chess or want to try to play chess. About our code and infrastructure PHP 7.4+ and PHP 8.3+ for majority of our backend code (Slim and Symfony frameworks) TypeScript / JavaScript (React, Vue.js, some jQuery 🙈) for frontend implementations MySQL Elastic Search Redis RPC and REST for API communication, Kafka as a cross-service bus, RabbitMQ for internal queuing, Websockets for some special use-cases Docker / Orbstack, Kubernetes, ArgoCD PHPStan, Psalm, PHPUnit, Playwright, PHPCSFixer for ensuring the stability and great developer experience Git pushing your code to Bitbucket and GitHub Kibana, Sentry, DataDog, Stackify, Blackfire for observability and performance profiling Cursor / Claude / Junie for supporting your day to day operations with unlimited agents What you'll do You will work with a team of experienced engineers on building new and maintaining existing functionalities. You will contribute to the decisions around technology and architecture of new solutions. You will have fun meeting awesome mission-driven people. You will grow Chess. Preferred skills & experience Experience with PHP 7.4+ with at least two popular PHP frameworks Experience with MySQL or another relational database Experience with ElasticSearch, SOLR, MongoDB or any other popular NoSQL database AI-first mindset & Prompt Engineering API-first design & proficiency in architecting RPC, RESTful or GraphQL APIs Familiarity with message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Pub/Sub or Amazon SQS Performance profiling & code debugging, familiarity with tools like XDebug or Blackfire CI/CD orchestration - understanding how to bake automated testing and static analysis (PHPStan / Psalm) into deployment pipeline Understanding of programming good practices and design patterns Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team Sense of ownership and responsibility Chess player Lifelong learner About the Opportunity This is a full-time opportunity We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!) --- You can learn more about us here: https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together https://www.chess.com/about

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Responsibilities

You will work with a team of experienced engineers on building new and maintaining existing functionalities. You will contribute to the decisions around technology and architecture of new solutions.