Fullstack Frontend Engineer

About Take Take Take

Co-founded by 5x World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, Take Take Take is building a new home for modern chess. An AI-powered platform for casual players, to get personalized coaching, play chess, and share their learning journey with friends.

We've already built a significant presence in the chess world, reaching 5 million people every month with our content. We just launched our new product, and are incredibly excited about the future. Take Take Take is backed by SNÖ, Coatue, Lovable, Patrick Collison and others. We're a small team in Oslo and London, and on a journey to give 600 million Chess players a new home. We would love for you to join us!

The Role

You'll work across the full stack: from React Native mobile and TanStack Start web frontends to backend services powered by Convex and Rust. You'll have real ownership over what you ship, and work closely with designers, product, and fellow engineers in a small, fast-moving team.

This is a hands-on role for someone who loves building products end to end. You'll integrate and orchestrate AI models from the world's top labs into a seamless player experience, and you'll help shape what we build next, not just how.

What You'll Do

• Build across the full stack, from React Native mobile and TanStack Start web frontends to backend services powered by Convex and Rust

• Integrate and orchestrate AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind into a seamless player experience

• Take features from idea to production, making pragmatic trade-offs along the way

• Architect systems that hold up under high traffic

• Contribute to high-performance Rust workers and integrations where speed and reliability are critical

• Have opinions on what we should build and why, not just how

You Specialise In

• The place where the product meets the player. You care deeply about how things look, feel, and move, and you love working closely with designers. You're the person who obsesses over the transitions, the empty states, the micro-interactions that make a product feel alive and keep players coming back.

Who We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• 3+ years of professional experience as a software developer

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript. Comfortable across both frontend and backend.

• Experience building mobile or web applications that real users depend on

• Product-minded. You think about the why behind what you're building, not just the how.

• Self-driven and independent. You don't wait to be told what to do next.

• Solid software design instincts. You know how to structure code, systems, and APIs that hold up over time.

• An understanding of performance trade-offs at scale. You've thought about (or dealt with) what happens when things get heavy.

• Comfortable using AI tools in your development workflow, with a clear-eyed understanding of their limitations

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with React Native and cross-platform mobile development

• Experience with Rust or a genuine interest in learning it

• Background in real-time systems or high-traffic consumer products

• An interest in chess (it helps, but it's not required)

Why Join Take Take Take

• Build the future of chess alongside Magnus Carlsen and a great team of engineers, designers, and product minds

• Collaborate directly with Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind

• Real ownership over the product, the codebase, and how the engineering team is built

• Ship to millions of players worldwide in a market of 600 million

• Work with a modern, ambitious tech stack including Rust, Convex, and cutting-edge AI

• Oslo-based team in a great city with a strong and growing tech scene