UK private hire dispatch platform scaling operations and modernizing engineering
Veezu operates the UK's largest private hire booking and dispatch network, serving 600M+ journeys annually across a £9bn market. The company is mid-modernization: migrating from AWS/Heroku to Azure while in-sourcing app development and building greenfield mobile infrastructure in parallel. Hiring velocity is accelerating across ops and sales (16 of 27 open roles), suggesting aggressive territory expansion paired with legacy system rationalization — a signal that growth is now constrained by platform and team capacity, not demand.
Veezu is a private hire technology platform serving UK taxi and private hire operators, dispatchers, and passengers through mobile apps and booking devices. Founded in 2013, the company has grown to 501–1,000 employees and operates in a highly regulated sector, managing compliance, fleet coordination, and multi-sided marketplace logistics. The platform handles dispatch routing, driver-passenger matching, and payment processing for hyper-local mobility networks. Current focus is expanding into new regions, rebuilding the mobile app from the ground up, and consolidating fragmented engineering tooling (Elixir, C#, PHP, Node.js, TypeScript) under a modern platform foundation.
Veezu's stack spans Elixir, C#, PHP, TypeScript, and Node.js for backend services, Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, and Zendesk for customer support. The company is migrating off AWS and Heroku onto Azure and consolidating tooling under a modern engineering platform.
Key projects include greenfield mobile app development, territory expansion, in-sourcing outsourced development, booking device rollout, legacy system migration, and compliance automation. The company is also building an internal platform foundation to consolidate fragmented engineering practices.
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