Engineering Internship, Frontend

About You

You love chess and want to help bring it to players around the world. You’re curious, creative, and eager to learn from a team that’s building the future of online chess. This internship is a chance to grow your frontend skills, contribute to real projects used by millions, and collaborate with teammates who are passionate about great design, clean code, and creating a meaningful user experience

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You naturally resonate with a mix of the following qualities and are eager to learn how they can serve as the foundation for your career:

• Multidisciplinary: You’re comfortable switching between different subjects and areas of focus with ease.
• Resilient: You can tolerate ambiguity and stay adaptable during the early discovery phases of projects.
• Ability to Simplify: You can absorb complex information and distill it into clear, straightforward solutions.
• Agile: You maximize productivity while remaining adaptable for future growth and iteration.
• Holistic: You understand how the parts of a project fit together to achieve broader goals—and how that project contributes to the company’s larger mission.
• Unorthodox: You’re not afraid to find creative, unconventional solutions to technical limitations.
• Logical Intuition: You balance structured, logical thinking with intuitive insight and gut instinct.

What You'll Do

• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team to design and build great chess experiences while learning from experienced engineers and designers:
• • Develop clean, responsive, and accessible user interfaces with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Help improve site performance and user experience by optimizing Core Web Vitals
  • Support quality efforts through automated end-to-end testing and debugging

Preferred Skills

• Javascript/Typescript
• Component architectures such as Vue, React, Svelte (Vue preferred)
• CSS and preprocessors like SASS
• Chess player
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Excellent communicator and team player
• Degree-seeking student currently enrolled at a college or university or equivalent bootcamp
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team

About the Opportunity

• This is a paid internship opportunity
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This role is open to candidates who can work in the United States or Canada

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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