Global food delivery company operating across Europe, the Middle  East, Asia, and Australia, is going to hire an entire team of engineers for its new engineering centre in India. The new India Engineering Centre of the company will operate out of Hyderabad. 

The engineering centre will be a core part of Deliveroo’s central technology organisation.  The company has already started recruiting and plans to employ over 150 engineers in India from the fields of analytics, platforms, automation and machine learning by the end of 2022. 

The Engineering  Centre will be Deliveroo’s largest technology hub outside the United Kingdom, where the company is headquartered. It has hired Sashi Somavarapu as Vice President of Engineering, to head the facility.

Deliveroo’s service is underpinned by pioneering logistics technology based on intelligent machine learning. The launch of the India Engineering Centre provides unparalleled opportunities for engineers to solve cutting edge business problems as Deliveroo scales and enhances its offering. 

Will Shu, Deliveroo CEO and Founder said: “Deliveroo is growing rapidly with an ambitious vision to become the definitive global online food platform. Opening up a new engineering hub in India will extend our global team of incredible engineering talent. The Centre will help us to continue to unlock new innovations for each side of our marketplace, developing a world-leading service for consumers,  restaurants and grocers, and riders. This is an exciting development for Deliveroo and I look forward to  working with our new colleagues in India.” 

VP Engineering, Shashi has led teams in the world's most technologically advanced organisations, including Amazon, Jio Platforms and Ford Motor. He will be reporting to Devesh Mishra, who joined  Deliveroo in 2021 as its Chief Product and Technology Officer. Prior to joining Deliveroo, Devesh was  Vice President, Global Supply Chain at Amazon, overseeing a team of thousands of engineers, data scientists and product managers, operating a supply chain spanning 185 markets. In this role Devesh built the world's most technologically advanced supply chain, using data analytics, predictive technology and machine learning to scale Amazon's retail and marketplace business.  

Devesh Mishra, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Deliveroo, said: “Some of the world’s leading tech talent is based in India, which is why we are so excited to start recruiting in Hyderabad.  We know in India there are engineers able to tackle some of the most challenging problems in tech, innovate in a fast-paced environment and to combine experience and expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset. The work we do in India will have a global impact, helping Deliveroo to scale while being at the forefront of change in its sector. This is a massive opportunity for software engineers, data scientists,  machine learning and artificial intelligence engineers to work on some of the toughest challenges in  engineering.” 

To foster meaningful integration between the UK and India-based tech teams, Deliveroo will enable its  UK technology team members to spend time in India to help with onboarding and knowledge-sharing.