Java Developer for Rent

Yandex Rent is a service that helps you rent out or rent an apartment entirely online. Our service sets new standards in the housing rental market. We are looking for a Java developer to join the acquisition team. Apply if you have over five years of commercial product development experience on the JVM.

Yandex Rent is a service that turns long-term apartment rentals into a clear and convenient process, setting new standards in this market.

We are hardly bothered by thousands of requests per second – we don't have high load in the usual sense. However, we do have complex business logic that we gladly tame. The main challenge for us is not to withstand the traffic flow, but to carefully describe and develop truly extensive product scenarios.

We have a modern stack:

• In new services – Java 21, updating to Java 25.
• Old services use Scala – and you will need to understand it. But it's not as scary as it might seem: we write in a pragmatic style using Future, without heavy functional programming with monads and monoids.
• We actively use agents in development, and with them, mastering an unfamiliar language is much easier than before.
• As an API for clients, frontend, and applications, we use GraphQL federation, and between microservices – gRPC.
• We store data in relational databases: in new services it's PostgreSQL, in old ones – MySQL.
• We work with complex business logic using DDD – where it's justified.

We are looking for a Java developer for the acquisition team, which is responsible for the entire process up to the contract signing. This includes organizing operational activities (planning routes for field managers, distributing responsibilities), complex owner and tenant onboarding flows, as well as the key stage when a tenant finds an apartment and an owner finds a tenant.