On September 6, a Yandex development office opened in St. Petersburg, where until the end of the year several dozen programmers are planned to be hired. The second branch in St. Petersburg is a year ago the company opened its Ukrainian representative office.
Employees of the St. Petersburg branch will work in the same team with the programmers of the Moscow office and will be engaged both in the development of existing and in the creation of new Internet services for a mass audience, the company reports. The St. Petersburg office will be headed by Andrei Ivanov, who previously headed Borland’s subsidiary in the northern capital.
In the first months, the St. Petersburg division of Yandex will be exclusively engaged in development, but in the future the branch may also receive marketing and commercial functions. Now in St. Petersburg, the company is looking for specialists in the field of information retrieval, as well as experienced C ++ programmers. Yandex is interested in attracting talented developers from other regions of Russia: for a number of vacancies, there is a program of assistance when moving to Moscow and St. Petersburg. ')