Justdial?s CTO, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, handles a team of nearly 600 people of which ~250 people are core technology people. The development team is structured based on technology skills like Java, PHP, querying, architects etc. In addition, there are ~17
product managers, who manage multiple categories and engage with both the business and the development teams. The company has also attracted outside talent from places like Yahoo for user data management
The team at Justdial works on a classic release every 3 months, while intermediate releases for bug fixes, etc., can happen any time.
The company expects the app to go live by 31st March and expects to commercially launch the Search Plus services in April along with the IPL. In terms of monetisation, except in areas like hotel bookings, air tickets, movie booking, etc., where commercials have been decided, in most other cases the monetization is not an immediate priority.
