Uber to hike India tech centres headcount to 1K by 2021 end

Hyderabad: US-based tech giant Uber, which has seen its tech centres in India grow to around 750 engineers over the past seven years, is on track to ramp up headcount at its tech centres in Hyderabad and Bangalore to 1,000 by the end of the year.

Uber’s India tech centres started their journey from a house in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills area in 2014 with a three-member team that Naga Kasu, director, engineering. The teams have since been instrumental in developing mobility and delivery solutions that are being implemented globally, Uber said on Thursday. The Bangalore tech centre became operational five years ago.

The two centers together handle 13 critical technology functions for Uber globally, including Rider, Eats, risk and payments, maps, GSS, customer obsession, Uber for Business, AdTech and growth, infra, and IT, among others, it said.