Digital payments major PayPal views India as a
key growth market and plans to hire as many as 600 techies by December
including in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
domains.
"We plan to increase the headcount by 600
in 2018. Some of the job roles that PayPal intends to hire for include
application developers- Java, Node JS; back-end developers- data engineers data
experts and product managers," Guru Bhat, GM Technology & Head of
Engineering, PayPal told.
PayPal has two tech centres in Chennai and
Bengaluru. Its current headcount of 1,700 has doubled since 2016."For
PayPal, the India centres are key and strategic. This is a great opportunity
for us in terms of not just business but also to leverage the great talent that
exists here," Bhat said.
He added that the company will recruit fresh as
well as lateral hires who will be contributing in the areas of AI and ML.
Bhat noted that digital payments space in India
is extremely exciting at present as the government is pushing digitisation and that PayPal is in a good
position to add value to the customer.
"As a company,
we are growing and we are growing very rapidly over 20 per cent year-on-year in
revenue," Bhat said.
While the PayPal tech centres have been in
India cumulatively for 12 years now, the innovation labs were launched last
year (2017) in an effort to upskill employees and give rise to innovation
within the company. These facilities are within the tech centres.
PayPal is available in more than 200 markets
around the world.
The PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo
and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100
currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal
accounts in 25 currencies, as per the company website.
PayPal has two tech centres in Chennai and
Bengaluru. Its current headcount of 1,700 has doubled since 2016."For
PayPal, the India centres are key and strategic. This is a great opportunity
for us in terms of not just business but also to leverage the great talent that
exists here," Bhat said.
He added that the company will recruit fresh as
well as lateral hires who will be contributing in the areas of AI and ML.
Bhat noted that digital payments space in India
is extremely exciting at present as the government is pushing digitisation and that PayPal is in a good
position to add value to the customer.
"As a company,
we are growing and we are growing very rapidly over 20 per cent year-on-year in
revenue," Bhat said.
While the PayPal tech centres have been in
India cumulatively for 12 years now, the innovation labs were launched last
year (2017) in an effort to upskill employees and give rise to innovation
within the company. These facilities are within the tech centres.
PayPal is available in more than 200 markets
around the world.
The PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo
and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100
currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal
accounts in 25 currencies, as per the company website.
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