Flipcart is Hiring Talent to Engineer For Rejig
After an exodus of the senior management from the company
over the past year, online marketplace Flipkart is now going to hiring to strengthen its engineering team. The
Flipcart will focus on hiring mid-management employees in 3 core areas for engineering including cloud
infrastructure, mobile experience and
personalisation.
The current focus is on hiring engineers for flipcart with typically 2 to 5 years of
experience, which is a key area of investment for the company. Flipkart will
also hire contract employees to strengthen the operations of its cacaptive logistics unit Ekart.
The focus on hiring comes after a year of high-profile exits
from the company who were recruited during 2015. Close to six senior
vice-presidents a and directors have left the company since January when Tiger
Global's Kalyan Krishnamurthy took over as chief executive officer. Since January,
the company has seen the return of old hands to helm key operations for supply
chain of mobile phones, grocery among others.
"Engineering
Flipkart is hiring talented engineers so that they will drive our
innovation edge. The assumption is that is that e-commerce company is driven by
capital, but it is (actually) driven by new innovation. We are proud to have a
truly world-class talented and innovative engineering function which is a
source of innovation. The first investment is to grow that," said Nitin
Seth, chief operating officer of Flipkart in an interview to ET.
Apart from improving the experience on mobile, the teams
will focus on building the company's cloud infrastructure and focus on research
areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and
other areas of data science to make shopping on the platform a personalised
experience.
With about a billion dollar coming its way as part of the recent
round of funding, the company is also looking to strengthen its sourcing for
key categories including lifestyle, large appliances and furniture as well as
the new category for grocery.
The company, which has a large workforce of 7,800 employees
on its rolls, has about 240 members in the top management.
"In the year 2015, we made a big shift. There was a large
influx of new leaders and it got difficult for the company to fully absorb. The
Flipkart culture, which is a very unique culture, got diffused with the size
and the suddenness of the change. When I joined last year, it was about
strengthening FK culture," said Seth.
