Backend Developer at Smena

We are creating Yandex Smena — a service that helps people find convenient part-time jobs near home. Every day, thousands of people find work through us — and you can influence how this process works internally. We have two sides: millions of users looking for part-time work with guaranteed payments and decent conditions, and large partners ("Pyaterochka," "Perekrestok," "Magnit," and others) for whom it's important to find performers reliably and simply.

Yandex Smena is the main startup of Ride Tech, which is a billion-dollar business and does not rest on its laurels. We combine the advantages of a startup and a large tech company:

• Low time-to-market parameter, which, combined with a product approach, allows us to quickly and dynamically create cool features and projects.
• Excellent processes for development, testing, and release. Project-based work, task backlog, local unit and integration tests, testers on the team, test environment, high-quality and non-stuffy code review, RFC process, etc.
• No overtime. If tasks increase, we hire new people instead of asking to work outside regular hours. Work takes up a large part of life, so it's very important for us to enjoy it.
• Fresh code. The oldest line in our code is about two years old.
• Interesting product tasks.

What tasks await you

Implementing a new integration with an external partner from scratch You will work on architecture, select technologies and patterns, write code, cover it with tests, and launch the solution to production. This is a full cycle — from idea to stable operation in production.

Improving the reliability of existing integrations Our goal is at least 99.99% data consistency between our internal system and the external partner. This means you will work with robust patterns, logging, retries, alerting, SLO control, writing internal tools for discrepancy analysis and automation.

Optimizing and developing platform components You will improve performance, work on increasing throughput, speeding up data processing, and adding new system mechanisms for all integrations. You will also need to implement auxiliary features and projects (for example, tools for finding "discrepancies" and other internal inconsistencies, applying AI to recognize the needs of store managers).

More about backend at Yandex — in the channel Yandex for Backend

We expect that you

• Have commercial development experience with Go
• Have worked with SQL-based databases, for example PostgreSQL
• Understand modern microservices architecture
• Can take responsibility for the result — from discussing the task to choosing solutions and implementing them
• Know how to work with colleagues — discuss ideas, argue your proposals, help others through code reviews and discussions
• Are proactive, attentive to details, able to maintain focus on results