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Bukalapak plans to hire 100 new employees in Australia
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The Bukalapak logo. The company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) on Aug. 6, 2021, under the ticker BUKA. (Courtesy of Bukalapak)
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ublicly listed e-commerce company Bukalapak aims to expand the workforce at its Melbourne technology hub in Victoria, Australia, by hiring 100 new employees in the next 3 to 4 years.
Bukalapak CEO Willix Halim said on Monday that additional workers were needed in the company’s product, technology, data and design roles, which included software engineering and data science.
“In the past years, we've been investing in talent outside Indonesia, and one of the countries that we're looking at is Australia,” he said in a webinar hosted by research institute Australia-Indonesia Center. “[We are] looking for talent with experience in scaling software design, software architecture and so on.”
Bukalapak employed 2,019 people as of September last year.
The company officially opened the Melbourne tech hub earlier this year to serve as a research and development center. The hub also aims to provide collaboration opportunities between Indonesian and Australian tech workers.
Like many other tech companies, Bukalapak faces a skills shortfall in Indonesia. World Bank estimates from 2018 show that the country had a shortfall of 9 million skilled and semi-skilled workers in the digital sector from 2015 to 2030.
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