We are developing social commerce within VK — a new shopping format where users discover products through clips, videos, posts, communities, and other types of content, and the entire purchase journey takes place within the ecosystem. Our systems already store over 500 million products, which millions of users interact with daily.

The team is developing a key part of VK's product vertical. Everything related to the main component: the product card, as well as showcases, checkout, cart, and so on. The team tackles ambitious and interesting tasks aimed at developing and expanding the use of products within the social network.

Tasks

• Develop and design backend services in Go and KPHP within the monolith
• Design new services, APIs, and inter-service interactions
• Work with large volumes of product data
• Participate in the selection and implementation of PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse, and other infrastructure solutions
• Solve performance, scaling, and fault tolerance issues as the product grows
• Work on product tasks at the intersection of products and other VK services
• Participate in architectural and technical development of new product features
• Consistently reduce legacy and technical debt in the domain

Requirements

• Backend development experience of at least two years
• Good knowledge of Go and practical experience using it: concurrency, context, testing, profiling
• Experience in developing and operating production services
• Understanding of distributed systems architecture: APIs, databases, caching, queues, inter-service communication
• Ability to understand existing code and safely migrate functionality between systems
• Experience conducting code reviews and team development
• Independence in technical task development and willingness to participate in engineering decision-making

Will be a plus

Experience with PHP/KPHP, but deep knowledge of the language is not required at the start.

We offer

Flexible working hours

Bonuses and discounts from partners

Office in the city center

Voluntary medical insurance (DMS)

Professional team

Work Format

Office

Remote

Hybrid

Level

senior

Working Schedule

full-time

VKontakte (VK)

One of the most high-load projects in the Russian internet. We have up to 30 releases per day and 125 billion API requests. All of this is handled by a small team of developers, where each person is a super professional who has found interesting tasks for themselves.

We offer

Flexible working hours

Bonuses and discounts from partners

Office in the city center

Voluntary medical insurance (DMS)

Professional team