Backend Developer for the Driver Experience Improvement Team

Our team is responsible for improving the driver experience in Yandex Taxi. We strive to make the Yandex Pro application more understandable and transparent, so that working in the service is more pleasant and performers' earnings increase.

Any features we create are designed with reliability and scalability requirements in mind. We always build product and technical metrics, as well as various graphs, to assess both system health and impact on the product. We are looking for a developer who is interested in actively developing the product while not forgetting about service reliability.

Our tech stack: * C++20 on the userver framework * Python 3.7 * PostgreSQL, MongoDB * Logbroker — an internal analogue of Apache Kafka

About the team

Learn about the development of Yandex city services at dev.go.yandex

What tasks await you

Designing and developing new features for Yandex Pro Our team's area of responsibility is constantly growing. In six months, we have almost doubled in size and don't want to stop there. We are constantly coming up with and implementing new features. The two latest major launches are displaying warnings to drivers in a convenient and understandable format, which has made communication more transparent and reduced the number of violations, and an onboarding widget for training newcomers in the service, which allows us to tell the most important things to drivers who have just joined us.

Supporting and developing functionality critical to the service There are many parameters that affect which orders a driver will receive. Some depend on their preferences, while others are based on service rules. In our team, you can contribute to things like rating, categories, options, and payment methods.

Architectural changes of services Taxi is a large infrastructure consisting of more than 800 microservices. We are constantly improving the reliability of services within our area of responsibility and strive to make the development experience more pleasant, so we actively introduce new technologies and improve architectural solutions.

We expect you to

• Want to make a product that provides work for a large number of people
• Have professional proficiency in any modern programming language
• Are ready to develop in C++20
• Know how to work with relational and non-relational databases
• Are familiar with classic algorithms and data structures
• Are attentive to details and not afraid of responsibility

It will be a plus if you

• Are familiar with C++ or Python
• Have developed distributed systems
• Have designed high-load fault-tolerant services or their parts
• Have built product and technical metrics, tested hypotheses, conducted A/B experiments