Swiggy sets up development centre in Gurgaon, home turf of rival Zomato

The centre in Gurgaon will focus on building platforms and applications that will improve the overall experience of Swiggy's more than 150,000 restaurant partners across 500 cities and towns in India

Swiggy is rapidly scaling up its technology (tech) teams as the food delivery giant is witnessing strong recovery and growth over the past few months. The SoftBank-backed company is hiring across engineering, product, design, analytics, and data science functions in the next two quarters. Building this team, Swiggy is setting up a new development centre in Gurugram. Its rival Zomato, which had a stellar debut on the Indian stock exchanges in July, is also headquartered in Gurugram.

With the present development teams based in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, Swiggy chose Gurugram as the next centre after a poll among the engineering