// Open Role at Chess.com
Join Chess.com as a Senior Design Engineer to own and ship the user interfaces for their AI-native platforms and internal tools, impacting 250M+ chess players worldwide in a fully remote, no-corporate culture.
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 250M+ 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 the Role
We are looking for a design engineer to own the interfaces of the platforms Chess.com runs on: Engage-o-tron, our growth platform; GNS, our AI-native knowledge and agent platform; and the internal admin tools our teams live in every day.
These are internal products, and that's the appeal. Your users are experts, they use these tools all day, and what they build in them reaches 250M+ players. The work is dense, technical, and high-leverage.
You'll decide how something should look, feel, and work, then ship it yourself. No handoff, no spec thrown over a wall.
Two kinds of people fit this role. The full-stack designer who's dreamed something up, designed it, built it, and launched it end to end. Or the strong front-end engineer with real design taste, someone who codes for a living but has defensible opinions about type, layout, motion, and information density. We care about the combination, not which side you started on.
About You
You have an eye, you can't unsee bad spacing or a muddled information hierarchy, and you take pride in writing high-quality, high-performance code. You're AI-first by conviction, not by mandate: you already build with AI-native editors and you see them as an amplifier of solid skills, not a threat to them. You're energized rather than bored by enterprise, technical, developer-facing product, because making the complicated feel simple is the whole job. And you want the range and ownership that only exist when one person owns the whole front-end.
What you'll do
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You can learn more about us here:
- Design compelling, clear UI/UX and produce high-quality mocks. - Turn design mocks into pixel-perfect, production-ready frontends using modern web technologies. - Iterate on existing interfaces by improving layout, interaction quality, motion, and design consistency. - Work closely with engineers, partners, and stakeholders, supporting design and implementation end-to-end. - Rapidly prototype and “vibe code” to explore ideas and gather feedback. - Contribute to and evolve design systems, component libraries, and patterns. - Utilize AI-native development tools like Claude Code and Cursor as part of your daily workflow. - Prototype own ideas and ship production polish end to end. - Design interface layers for AI-native workflows: streaming, long-running agent runs, tool-calling surfaces. - Write high-quality, high-performance code and participate in code reviews. - Demonstrate an articulate taste in typography, spacing, layout, micro-interactions, transitions, and information density. - Possess strong practical skills in modern web technologies (TypeScript, Vue, React or equivalent). - Have experience building and owning a design system in code. - Showcase strong collaboration and communication skills in a fully distributed team. - Exhibit a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.