ChessMood
51 - 200 employees
📚 Education
👥 B2C
Education • B2C
ChessMood is a leading chess education platform built by Grandmasters that teaches chess players of all ages and skill levels. Founded in 2018, ChessMood focuses on improving how people learn chess while fostering personal growth — their students include learners aged 5 to 80+ across 30+ countries and success stories ranging from rapid rating gains to championship winners. The company is a small, profitable, remote-first team (5–20 employees) with $1M+ in annual revenue, and emphasizes community, long-term development, and teacher-led instruction by grandmasters.
Head of Engineering
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ChessMood
51 - 200 employees
📚 Education
👥 B2C
Education • B2C
ChessMood is a leading chess education platform built by Grandmasters that teaches chess players of all ages and skill levels. Founded in 2018, ChessMood focuses on improving how people learn chess while fostering personal growth — their students include learners aged 5 to 80+ across 30+ countries and success stories ranging from rapid rating gains to championship winners. The company is a small, profitable, remote-first team (5–20 employees) with $1M+ in annual revenue, and emphasizes community, long-term development, and teacher-led instruction by grandmasters.
📋 Description
• Audit the existing architecture and decide what to rebuild versus refactor • Build, coach, and grow a modern engineering team for the AI era • Set technical standards, systems, and deployment practices • Collaborate directly with the CEO on product strategy and priorities • Work closely with the AI Coach and product teams to bring new features to life • Make technical decisions with a long-term ownership mindset • Ensure speed, reliability, and scalability across the entire platform • Help shape ChessMood’s next stage of growth • Prepare the product to support the upcoming AI Coach and millions of chess learners
🎯 Requirements
• Deep love and deep interest in chess • Experience and pragmatism with AI-written code • Experience using or iterating on Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar tools • Emotional intelligence and strong communication skills • Ability to communicate and build relationships with engineers, the CEO, and cross-functional peers • Ideally, full-stack competency • Ability to make architectural decisions, create sensible prompts, and verify AI-generated outputs • Willingness to build and grow an engineering team • Willingness to work hands-on across the technology stack • Long-term ownership mindset • Not seeking a standard 9–5 office job with a task list
🏖️ Benefits
• Customer love and product pride • High trust and autonomy • Holistic growth and learning opportunities • Trusted expert, leadership, and technology decision-making responsibility • Deeply committed teammates and supportive team culture
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