Payroll is the one piece of company software whose failure everyone notices by lunchtime, so the companies that run it are large, careful and hold most of this Industry Vertical's hiring. Several of them run some of their largest engineering centres in India. Rippling's centre in Bengaluru and UKG's in Noida are among the largest engineering centres their companies have anywhere, and Alegeus, Cornerstone OnDemand, iCIMS and First Advantage run much of their engineering from Bengaluru and Hyderabad. India has also founded many of the companies on the hiring side. HackerRank and HackerEarth began in Bengaluru, the employer-of-record and AI sourcing companies are largely Indian-founded, and India's own HR suites, like Keka HR and greytHR, pay the country's mid-sized and small firms.
For an engineer, this is work on large business applications that hold sensitive data about people and money. Java, .NET and Python are all in demand, with Python far more common here than at a typical product company, and cloud engineers run the suites as services. GenAI engineers are prominent too, building the assistants that answer employees' questions and the agents that find and screen candidates. Many readers have already used these products from the other side, as candidates.
HR tech is one of the Industry Verticals of
The Market Segments start with the employee record and the money that flows from it, then follow a person through being found, tested, checked and hired, to learning and growing in the job.
The employee record, payroll and shift scheduling come from companies like Rippling, UKG, Workday, Keka HR and greytHR.
Hiring and paying people in countries where a company has no office of its own is the work of companies like Multiplier, Papaya Global, Gloroots and Envoy Global.
The health plans and health accounts that employers provide are run on software from companies like Alegeus, Alight Solutions and Plum Benefits.
The systems that track every application, and the career sites and campaigns that attract candidates, come from companies like iCIMS, Phenom, Employ and Radancy.
AI that searches for candidates, reaches out to them and maps a workforce's skills comes from companies like Weekday, HireQuotient, Eightfold and Findem.
The timed coding test, the video interview and the personality test come from companies like HackerRank, HackerEarth, Karat and SHL.
Checking degrees, past jobs, criminal records and identity is the work of companies like First Advantage, HireRight, Accurate Background and OnGrid.
Company learning platforms, course libraries, the guides that walk a new user through software, and skills planning come from companies like Cornerstone OnDemand, Skillsoft, Whatfix, Disprz and Prismforce.
Surveys, HR chatbots, recognition and performance reviews come from companies like Leena AI, CultureMonkey and Engagedly.
What HR tech companies hire software engineers for, and which roles they hire, is on