We’re looking to hire a few new full-time developers at Play Magnus, the software company of reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen.
Play Magnus is a small company using a wide variety of technology, so it is an advantage if you are someone with a broad range of skills or are willing to learn new things without prejudice. We have user-facing web and apps in Swift, Kotlin, C# and JavaScript, with a little bit of ClojureScript and Elm. We have server-side software and content generation tools in Julia, Clojure and TypeScript, and a chess engine in C++.
One of the new developers we are seeking is someone to assist me in my own tasks; primarily maintaining and improving internal software in Clojure/ClojureScript as well as chess AI work. For chess AI, I hope to be using Julia along with C, C++ or Rust (our current old and outdated chess engine will be rewritten from scratch).
This is not primarily a Julia job, but you will probably be able to use at least some Julia, and I think the skillset and interests of many members of the Julia community would fit the job perfectly.
An interest in chess is advantageous, but not a requirement. Chess playing skills don’t matter at all.
Ideally we would like someone living in or willing to move to Oslo, Norway, but due to the somewhat unusual skills desired and the current difficulties of international travel, remote work is probably an option.
If this sounds interesting, please drop us an e-mail at jobs@playmagnus.com.