23 companies hiring software engineers in India right now
These 23 companies are actively hiring software engineers in India this week, based on live postings on their own career pages and ATS. We've grouped them by stage so you can target the ones that fit your risk appetite and comp expectations.
Global companies hiring in India
- Google, Microsoft, Atlassian, Stripe, Uber, Airbnb — platform, backend and infra roles
- Nvidia and Databricks — systems, ML infra and data platform
- Most post first on Greenhouse, Ashby or Workday, days before boards
Indian scale-ups (Series C+)
- Razorpay, Zerodha, CRED, Meesho, Zepto — high-scale backend and full-stack
- Postman, Hasura, BrowserStack — dev-tools, strong engineering brands
Early-stage (Seed–Series B)
Dozens of funded startups are hiring founding and early engineers with meaningful ESOPs. These roles almost never reach Naukri — they live on the company's careers page and in the founder's network. If you want equity upside, this is where to look.
The best engineering roles in India are filled before they're advertised. Watch career pages directly, not boards.
How to apply well
- Apply within 24–48 hours of a role going live — pipelines fill fast.
- Lead with a project or repo that maps to the role's stack.
- Skip the boards; apply at the source so your application isn't a dead repost.
Stop refreshing job boards. Hyrd pings matching roles to your Telegram the second they go live — from career pages and ATS, before the crowd.
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