Senior Software Engineer, Chess

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!

At Duolingo youll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems running countless experiments (300 at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions and educating our users and employees alike. Youll have limitless learning opportunities mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds and a variety of projects with large scopes while doing work thats both fun and meaningful.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.

About the role...

The Chess team is building Duolingos newest subject from the ground up reimagining how millions of learners discover and play chess. As an engineer on the team youll build core gameplay experiences own projects end-to-end and run fast experiments to shape the future of the product. Youll work at the intersection of chess and AI to create adaptive engaging features that make learning effective and fun. Were looking for engineers who actively play chess enjoy thinking deeply about the game and want to help shape how its taught to millions of learners.

You will...

Build and scale backend services that power Duolingos chess learning experience
Help design features such as game review move explanations and chess learning systems
Collaborate with AI researchers to develop more human-like chess experiences and insights
Contribute your chess knowledge to help identify meaningful gameplay patterns and teaching moments
Work closely with product design and engineering partners to run fast experiments

You have...

A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Experience programming in Java Python or Kotlin
Interest in how AI can enhance products and user experiences
Experience working in fast-moving product environments

Exceptional candidates will have...

Active experience playing chess with a rating around 1200 (or equivalent familiarity with the game) on platforms like Lichess or similar
You play chess regularly and enjoy improving your game
You can point to a rating or experience level
Youre excited about helping others learn chess

We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.

This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to skills experience education and internal equity.

Salary Range:

$177700$240400 USD

Take a peek at how we care for our employees holistic well-being with our benefitshere.

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation please contact.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!At Duolingo youll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems running countless experiments (300 at a tim...