FarEye to strengthen global technology team with 100 new techies 

February 11, 2021: Logistics platform company FarEye has announced that it will further strengthen its global technology team by hiring 100 techies in India and North America this year in order to capitalize on unprecedented demand from retailers, manufacturers, and logistics & transportation companies for the company’s industry-leading platform.

FarEye has already attracted industry leaders from top brands like Microsoft, Amazon, and Dropbox to strengthen teams, enrich culture and build scalable world-class products.

Kushal Nahata, CEO & co-founder, FarEye, said, “Our lives depend on it so much more than we realize, coming to think of the movement of food, medicine or raw materials. Here is where we step in and make a difference by enabling efficient movement of goods, both across the country & the globe. It is our responsibility to ensure everyone gets things delivered to them on time. We are passionate about this challenge at a global level, one that is costing humanity close to a trillion dollars, in wastage alone. With transparency & traceability, we are making logistics reliable and predictable with our robust technology platform. This is a mission to enrich lives globally & one that makes a significant difference. We are constantly looking for like-minded people who are passionate and talented to join hands with us on this mission.”

Pankaj Kankar, COO, FarEye, who has been driving the technology and talent strategy at FarEye said, “We are determined to build a globally admired technology and people-centric organisation. Our absolute focus is on building intrapreneurs, not employees, where individuals are given a chance to ideate, create and own their chore themselves to drive immense satisfaction and innovation”.

The company is on a journey to achieve 100+ million transactions per day with processing petabytes of data. FarEye has recently hired many industry veterans, including Arun Kumar ex-Microsoft as SVP Engineering. Arun was heading the MS Dynamics 365 platform team and brings over 25 years of technical experience in building SaaS products and high-performance scalable teams and platforms. Other key hires include Kunal Kumar (DOE, ex-Amazon), Shrenik Jain (Sr. DOE, ex GreyOrange), Rajat Budhiraja (VP Professional Services, ex Nagarro), Arpita Jain (Director-QE, ex Times Internet), Kaushal Kumar (Director PMO, ex Genpact), and Jitendra Singh (Sr. Architect, ex MMT, Sumo Logic).

Last month, FarEye announced an ESOP liquidation program for its employees under which eligible employees were able to liquidate up to 35 percent of their vested ESOP shares.

FarEye on boarded new customers including Tata Steel BSL, HomeTown, UPS & Finland Post. It has also partnered with giants like Microsoft, Honeywell, BlueYonder & 4PL.