Our team is currently at an interesting stage. Until now, our main product has been daily OSAGO policies in Yandex Pro, and our target audience has been taxi drivers. Right now, we are making this product more platform-agnostic so it becomes available to everyone else.

In Yandex Pro we have developed: * An insurance marketplace where taxi drivers can choose the most advantageous offer for them; * Pre-filling of almost all necessary policy data via photos of a passport, driver's license, and vehicle registration certificate (СТС), and we have set up convenient autosuggest for everything else; * Automatic purchase when a taxi driver starts their shift; * Fraud detection tools; * A system for automatically offloading traffic from a 'failed' insurance company.

When solving our tasks, we strive to create reusable tools that go beyond working only with OSAGO policies. For example, the tool for gradual legalization developed for OSAGO is now used for transport legalization in Uzbekistan; it is planned to be used for other legalizations in the future as well.

Under the hood, we have a microservice architecture, as well as well-tuned CI/CD processes. A large user base, daily releases, and regular feedback will allow every developer to continuously grow and see the results of their work. We work with C++20 and userver (Anvar from our team talked about the framework).

Our numbers: * We have hundreds of thousands of active users; * We have increased the number of policies sold fivefold over the last six months; * 99% uptime — given high load, rapid growth, and low uptime guarantees from the insurers themselves; * We have integrated six insurers into the platform marketplace.

You will be tasked with multiplying these metrics in upcoming projects, which you will independently drive from start to finish.

What tasks await you

Platformization of short-term OSAGO policies You will need to rebuild the architecture of our services so that it allows for issuing OSAGO policies not only within the Yandex Pro app. You will bring the solution to the first user and scale it to hundreds of thousands of daily buyers. Many interesting challenges lie ahead: for example, maintaining high marketplace uptime despite the low uptime of each individual insurer under new business requirements.

OSAGO for taxi fleets In taxi services, the vehicle owner is often a taxi fleet. Many taxi fleets find it more profitable and convenient to purchase short-term OSAGO policies for taxis from us. You will need to develop appropriate tools for them. There are many hypotheses ahead that could attract a large volume of policy sales.

Development of legalization tools Yandex Taxi operates in all CIS countries and many other countries. Each country has its own laws, all of which must be complied with: mandatory OSAGO and OSGOP policies, transport legalizations, localization laws, and so on. Every legalization process is difficult for drivers, and our task is to help them. You will develop the service architecture, adapting it to the requirements of different countries and laws.

Learn more about backend at Yandex — in the channel Yandex for Backend

We expect you to

• Have knowledge of C++ and STL (we use C++20, userver)
• Prefer a balance between technical and product-related tasks
• Know SQL and (optionally) NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc.)
• Have a good understanding of basic algorithms and data structures

It will be a plus if you

• Have worked with high-load systems
• Have experience with microservice architecture
• Have development experience in Python or want to learn it