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Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems worldwide. Skilled in Go, PHP, PostgreSQL, and microservice architectures, with a strong focus on system performance, reliability, and clean architecture principles. Experienced in Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Kubernetes, Docker, and gRPC, delivering production-ready services for tens of millions of users. Regular CTF (Capture the Flag)participant with a strong interest in security and system resilience.
Experience: 6 years
Yearly salary: $110,000
Hourly rate: $50
Nationality: 🌏 Remote
Residency: 🌏 Remote
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
inDrive 2023 - 2025
- Delivered a pet project from concept to MVP stage and managed its successful release across multiple countries. - Doubled the conversion rate of the legacy system by enhancing user experience and optimizing key user flows. - Launched and coordinated flows for over 40 countries with diverse workflows, covering 100% of new user traffic. - Designed, managed, and implemented the user migration process from the old system to the new one — successfully migrating over 20% of GMV (4M users). Increased migration speed from 80 to 8,000 users per minute through architectural and technical optimizations. - Increased the first-ride completion metric by 6.7 percentage points and reduced verification team costs by 24.5% by designing and developing the Driver Restoration Flow, enabling over 750,000 users worldwide to restore their accounts. - Improved user status consistency by architecting solutions for major integrations with our services. - Acted as key problem-solver within team, leading incidents and critical compliance-related tasks. - Led system refactoring to simplify future expansion and rebuilt core components using clean architecture principles. - Led major architectural transformations, deprecating legacy code to improve scalability and maintainability. - Mentored 5 new team members.
Software Engineer
NW RCAI 2021 - 2023
NW RCAI develops flight information systems providing aircraft crews with essential operational data — including maps, landing procedures, NOTAMs, SNOWTAMs, documents, and chart kits. The platform is used by thousands of aircraft and major Russian airlines such as Aeroflot, Rossiya Airlines, Pobeda, and UTair. Key Achievements: - Designed and developed backend microservices using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles; conducted regular code reviews to maintain code quality. - Increased the SLA of critical flight information delivery components to 99.9% by migrating the system to a microservices-based architecture. - Simplified and enhanced the document management system, introducing precise access control and improving stability and scalability by extracting document handling from the monolith. - Actively participated in decomposing the legacy monolith into independent, microservice-based modules. - Led the development of the Flight Information Preparation and Delivery Service, ensuring reliable data processing and timely information distribution.
Software Engineer
Rhinoda 2019 - 2021
- Successfully completed an internship by developing a pizza restaurant website and several pet projects using native PHP, later rebuilding them with the Laravel framework. - Contributed to diverse projects, including: - TradingBay — cryptocurrency analysis and trading platform. - Artist (artist-production.de) — ticket sales platform in Germany for Russian concert events. - TaskChat (taskchatapp.com) — task management and communication system. - Designed, architected, and developed core functionalities; performed bug fixing, code optimization, and direct client communication. - Implemented checkout systems with Yandex.Kassa and Stripe, ensuring secure and seamless payment flows. - Simplified ticket printing by contributing to the open-source project QZTray for automated printing. - Built an SMS and email notification system integrated with Mailgun and implemented an email parser with user matching for event notifications. - Optimized email parsing performance from 4 minutes to 2 seconds by reducing database calls and simplifying code logic. - Led project refactoring and final bug-fixing phases before deadlines; deployed multiple projects to production environments successfully.
Skills
api
aws
ci-cd
git
kyc
php
postgres
python
redis
sql
golang
english
russian