Customer and employee experience software built for simplicity and speed
Freshworks is a public SaaS company (NASDAQ: FRSH) that builds CX and EX software for mid-market and enterprise customers. The stack reveals a modern AI-first architecture: LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith for LLM orchestration; Kafka and Pub/Sub for event streaming; and Elasticsearch for search — all grounded in SQL and REST/GraphQL APIs. Notably, they're adopting Terraform and GitHub Copilot while building internal text2action AI/ML solutions, signaling investment in developer productivity and infrastructure-as-code maturity. Sales hiring (134 roles) far outpaces engineering (92), indicating a scaling go-to-market motion alongside product expansion.
Notable leadership hires: Support Director, Sales Operations Director, Sales Director, FP&A Director, Product Analytics Lead
Freshworks builds a suite of interconnected service software spanning customer support (Freshdesk), sales (Freshsales), service delivery (Freshservice), and employee experiences. Over 74,000 companies trust their platform, including major brands across manufacturing, music, and financial services. The company operates globally with hiring across eight countries and a distributed engineering footprint. Internally, they're managing technical debt, optimizing incident response processes, and scaling marketing operations — typical challenges of a platform serving complex, multi-product deployments.
Freshworks runs on LangChain, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and GraphQL/REST APIs. They use Temporal and Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration, Workday for HR systems, and BI tools like Tableau and Power BI. Recently adopting Terraform and GitHub Copilot.
Headquartered in San Mateo, California. Actively hiring across India, Germany, Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, France, Singapore, and Australia.
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