Uber’s B’luru engineering team leads tech for third-party cab booking in UK

Uber’s Bengaluru-based mobility engineering team is leading the technological development of a complex integration with a third-party cab aggregator in the UK, the company’s first-ever such product offering.

‘Local Cab, is currently being piloted in Plymouth and Oxford in the UK, and allows residents there tobook third-party cabs offered by aggregator, Autocab, through the Uber app, Uber said in a statement.

The mobility engineering team led the integration, which included breaking Uber’s tech stack and building a new service, allowing Uber riders to be paired with a third-party driver.

The team integrated the Uber app with Autocab’s marketplace with the help of third party application programming interfaces developed for local cabs.