Bengaluru carries the work, through Swiggy and its grocery app Instamart, and Zepto, the apps that bring dinner and groceries to the door in minutes. Delivery apps from abroad build here too, DoorDash in Pune and Deliveroo. Toast, an American restaurant-software maker, works from Bengaluru and Chennai, and PAR Technology from Delhi NCR. Indian start-ups build for the country's restaurants and kitchens as well, like UrbanPiper, Rebel Foods and Swish.
For an engineer, this is consumer apps at enormous scale, where an order has to move from phone to kitchen to rider within minutes. Mobile engineers are far more common here than at a typical product company, and Java, test, data and Go engineers are all above their usual weight. It is also one of the most open Industry Verticals for juniors.
Foodtech and quick commerce is one of the Industry Verticals of
The Market Segments follow a meal from the app it is ordered on, to the kitchen that cooks it, the software that runs the restaurant, and the chain built around its own software.
India's delivery apps, Swiggy, Instamart and Zepto, sit beside delivery apps from abroad built partly in India, like DoorDash and Deliveroo.
Kitchens that cook only for delivery are run by companies like Rebel Foods and Swish.
The restaurant's tills and back office, and food for the office, come from companies like Toast, PAR Technology, UrbanPiper, SmartQ and Zerocater.
A restaurant chain run with software at its core is here through Chai Point.
What foodtech and quick commerce companies hire software engineers for, and which roles they hire, is on