Uber on June 9 said it would hire close to 250 engineers to expand its tech and product teams based in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. With this, the ride-hailing firm will have 1,000 employees in India by end of this year.
The new hiring is expected to strengthen the company’s rider and driver growth, delivery, eats, digital payments, risk and compliance, marketplace, customer obsession, infrastructure, adtech, data, safety and finance technology teams, the company said in a release.
Senior director (engineering) Manikandan Thangarathnam at Uber said, “Our teams in Hyderabad and Bangalore work on important global mandates, and pioneer various industry-first innovations. In order to serve more people across the globe, we’re expanding our teams.''
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Expansion plans were in line with the company's vision to make mobility and delivery more accessible in over 10,000 cities across the globe, Uber further said.