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What you can do at impet.space

Seven directions where juniors work on real projects with mentors. For each one: the tasks, the portfolio result and the stack teams work with today.

✳ Stack is current as of October 2026

Development

Build products and write code that works.

Write code for live products: from interface layout to APIs and databases. Work with designers, analysts and QA, go through code review with a mentor and learn to ship tasks to production.

What you will do

  • Frontend and backend features from the tracker
  • REST APIs, database schemas and migrations
  • Unit and e2e tests for your code
  • Code review: your merge requests and others'

What goes into your portfolio

  • Merge requests in a real repository
  • Features that real users rely on
  • Team development experience with Git flow

Current stack

Languages
TypeScriptPythonJavaKotlinGo
Frontend
ReactNext.jsViteTailwind CSSTanStack Query
Backend
FastAPISpring BootNestJSRESTgRPC
Data
PostgreSQLRedisKafkaSQLAlchemyPrisma
Testing
VitestPlaywrightpytestJUnit
Tools
GitDockerGitLab CIOpenAPI
AI tools
Claude CodeCursorGitHub Copilot
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UX/UI Design

Design clear and convenient interfaces.

Design interfaces that real people use: research user needs, build prototypes, maintain the design system and hand designs off to development.

What you will do

  • Interviews and usability tests
  • User flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes
  • Design system components and tokens
  • Developer handoff and design review

What goes into your portfolio

  • Case studies with research and metrics
  • Designs shipped in the product
  • Experience working with developers

Current stack

Design
FigmaFigJamFramerSpline
Design systems
Figma VariablesAuto LayoutTokens StudioStorybook
Research
CustDevJTBDMazeMiroЯндекс Метрика (Вебвизор)
AI tools
Figma MakeClaudeMidjourney
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Project Management

Help the team move towards a shared goal.

Help the team agree on a goal and reach it on time: plan iterations, remove blockers and run communication between the team and the client.

What you will do

  • Sprint planning and estimation
  • Dailies, retrospectives and demos
  • Risk and timeline management
  • Reports for the client and the mentor

What goes into your portfolio

  • A project brought to release
  • Artifacts: roadmap, backlog, reports
  • Team leadership experience

Current stack

Process
ScrumKanbanShape UpOKR
Tracking & docs
JiraYouTrackLinearGitLab IssuesConfluenceNotion
Analytics
BurndownCycle TimeGoogle SheetsMiro
AI tools
ClaudeChatGPTNotion AI
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Business Analysis

Turn business needs into solutions.

Translate business needs into the team's language: gather requirements and describe processes and integrations so that developers and testers know what to build and why.

What you will do

  • Stakeholder interviews and requirements gathering
  • Process models in BPMN and UML diagrams
  • API and integration specifications
  • SQL queries to check hypotheses and data

What goes into your portfolio

  • Specs for a real product
  • Process models and API contracts
  • Experience working with a team

Current stack

Modeling
BPMN 2.0UMLC4draw.ioCamunda Modeler
API
OpenAPI / SwaggerPostmanRESTJSON
Data
SQLPostgreSQLGoogle SheetsYandex DataLens
Tracking & docs
User StoriesUse CasesConfluenceJiraMiro
AI tools
ClaudeChatGPT
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QA Engineering

Make products more reliable.

Make sure the product works: check user scenarios by hand, write automated tests, test APIs and build checks into CI.

What you will do

  • Test plans, checklists and test cases
  • Manual and exploratory testing
  • UI and API autotests in the CI pipeline
  • Bug reports that are easy to reproduce

What goes into your portfolio

  • Autotests in the project repository
  • Test documentation
  • Experience in a release cycle

Current stack

Test automation
PlaywrightCypresspytestJUnitAppium
API
PostmanBrunoSwaggerREST Assured
Performance
k6JMeterLighthouse
Tracking & docs
Test ITQaseAllureJira
Tools
Chrome DevToolsProxymanSQLDockerGitLab CI
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Product Management

Build products people need.

Decide what the team builds and why: study users, form hypotheses, set priorities and read the metrics to see whether it worked.

What you will do

  • User research and customer development
  • Hypotheses, prioritization and roadmap
  • Metrics, dashboards and A/B tests
  • PRDs and task setting for the team

What goes into your portfolio

  • Product decisions with measurable impact
  • Roadmap and PRDs
  • Experience with a team and metrics

Current stack

Analytics
SQLAmplitudeMixpanelЯндекс МетрикаGoogle Analytics 4
Experiments & frameworks
A/B-тестыGrowthBookRICE / ICENorth Star MetricUnit Economics
Research
CustDevJTBDCJMMiro
Tracking & docs
JiraLinearNotionFigma
AI tools
ClaudeChatGPTPerplexity
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DevOps/MLOps

Grow infrastructure and ML services.

Build the platform products run on: containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring and security. In the MLOps track — deploying and operating ML models and LLM services.

What you will do

  • Dockerfiles, Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests
  • CI/CD pipelines and GitOps
  • Monitoring, logs and alerts
  • Training pipelines and ML model serving

What goes into your portfolio

  • Infrastructure the product runs on
  • Pipelines and charts in the repository
  • On-call and incident review experience

Current stack

Infrastructure
LinuxDockerKubernetesHelmTerraform / OpenTofuAnsible
CI/CD
GitLab CIGitHub ActionsArgo CD
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaLokiOpenTelemetry
Security
Vaultcert-managerTrivyExternal Secrets
ML platform
MLflowDVCAirflowKServevLLM
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Not sure where to start?

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