Fellowship Program in Software Development (Backend Specialization)

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Build real work-like projects to gain work experience in Java, RestAPI, Spring Boot, and more to land a top career as a backend developer with Assured Referrals.

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DREAM JOBS
6 - 15 LPA
SUPER DREAM JOBS
15 - 40 LPA
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Curriculum to crack dream jobs in top Product-Based companies

Two tracks. Same foundation. Pick the depth that matches your career goal.

Premium

Advanced

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Premium Curriculum (Included)

All 8 foundation modules from the Premium track

Kickstart your developer journey by building a rock-solid foundation in programming, modern web tooling, and Generative AI — the three pillars every 2026 software engineer needs from day one.

  • Language Fundamentals: Go from "Hello World" to confident coder. Master the syntax and constructs of Java or JavaScript (chosen based on your specialization), including loops, conditionals, arrays, objects, strings, data types, and standard libraries
  • Developer Essentials: Pick up the must-have toolkit every working engineer uses every day, through hands-on labs and live workshops — HTTP, REST APIs, Linux, Git, SQL, and cloud deployment
  • GenAI Foundations: Get fluent in the language of modern AI — how Large Language Models work, prompt engineering essentials, and the real-world use cases reshaping software development
Loops
Conditionals
Arrays
Objects
Strings
Data Types
Libraries
HTTP
Rest API
Deployment
Linux
GIT
SQL
LLMs
Prompt Engineering
Use Cases

Master DSA the way top product companies actually test it — through a carefully designed three-stage curriculum with exclusive videos, in-depth mentorship, live sessions, and continuous mock assessments.

  • Basics — Build the Problem-Solving Muscle: Develop logic by solving math, recursion, and implementation problems. Get introduced to fundamental data structures (Linked Lists, Trees) and learn how to reason about Space & Time Complexity from day one
  • Intermediate — Pattern Recognition for Real Interviews: Master the high-yield problem-solving patterns interviewers love — Two Pointers, Sliding Window, Prefix Sum, Binary Search, Bit Manipulation, BFS/DFS, Hash-based optimization. Learn the art of debugging under time pressure
  • Advanced — The Interview-Cracking Edge: Step up to graph algorithms (Prim's, Kruskal's, Dijkstra's), greedy & backtracking patterns, Dynamic Programming (Memoization & Tabulation), and advanced data structures like Tries and Segment Trees
  • AI Guidance: Get personalized feedback on your code, hints when you're stuck, and AI-powered explanations of optimal solutions
Logic Building
Collections
Space and Time Complexity
Matrix
Two Pointers
Sliding Window
Sorting
Prefix Sum
Bit Manipulation
Binary Search
Data Structure Application
Linked List
Tree
Graph
BFS/DFS
Dynamic Programming
Greedy
Knapsack
Spanning Tree
Trie
Segment Tree

This is the heart of the program — pick one of two specializations and ship a portfolio of work-like projects modelled on the apps used by AirBnB, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Flipkart and Swiggy.

Option 1 - Fullstack Specialization (FDT): Become a full-stack engineer with a frontend-first lens. Ship 7 progressive projects:

  • QTrip Static — AirBnB-like travel front end with HTML, CSS, Flexbox & Bootstrap
  • QTrip Dynamic — Add API calls, routing, filters, data persistence and 3rd-party libraries
  • XBoard (independent) — Google News-style newsfeed aggregator with JavaScript, DOM & deployment
  • QKart Frontend — Amazon/Flipkart-style React shopping experience with hooks & Material UI
  • QTify (independent) — Spotify-like audio streaming front end designed in Figma
  • QKart Backend — Scalable Node.js / Express backend with MongoDB & REST APIs
  • XFlix (independent) — Netflix-like backend with Express, Node, MongoDB & deployment

Option 2 — Backend Specialization (BDT): Go deep on enterprise-grade Java backend systems. Ship 6 progressive projects:

  • QCalc — Multi-file Java scientific calculator using OOP, Classes, Packages, Git & Gradle
  • XURL (independent) — Bit.ly-like URL shortener applying all your Java & data structures knowledge
  • QMoney — Zerodha-like visual stock portfolio analyser; consume REST APIs, refactor legacy code, write JUnit tests
  • XCompany — Object Modeling & Machine Coding: model a company hierarchy with constraints
  • QEats — Scalable distributed Java backend for a Swiggy-like food ordering app, with MVCS, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Mockito & Spring Security
  • XMeme (independent) — Java backend for a Giphy-like meme platform applying everything you've learned
HTML / CSS
JavaScript
React
React Hooks
Material UI
Node.js
Express
MongoDB
REST APIs
Java
OOP
Spring Boot
MVCS
Jackson
Gradle
Refactoring
Deployment

Go from zero AI background to confidently building real AI-powered software products — the foundation every modern developer needs in 2026.

  • S1: How LLMs Work (And Why It Matters)
  • S2: Navigating the AI Model Landscape (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source)
  • S3: Prompt Engineering That Actually Works
  • S4: Building with the OpenAI API (embeddings, function calling, streaming)
  • S5: Fine-Tuning — When & How to Train Your Own Model
  • S6: RAG Pipelines — Make AI Know Your Data
  • S7: Building AI Agents That Take Action
  • S8: Full-Stack AI Apps with Bolt.new
  • S9: AI-Powered Development with Cursor
LLMs
OpenAI API
LangChain
Cursor
Bolt.new
RAG
Fine-Tuning
AI Agents

Push your specialization to senior-engineer level — the architectural depth top product companies expect from candidates targeting 15+ LPA roles.

Option 1 — Frontend Advanced: Master the architectural concepts that separate good frontend devs from great ones — through hands-on workshops, activities & projects

  • Browser caching strategies for blazing-fast load times
  • Frontend security — XSS, CSRF, authentication patterns
  • Website performance optimization with Lighthouse, profiling & CDN
  • Redux state management for complex applications
  • Server-Side Rendering with Next.js for SEO & first paint speed
  • Advanced CSS architecture (BEM, CSS-in-JS, responsive systems)

Option 2 — Backend Advanced: Make your QEats backend production-grade — the way real engineers scale Swiggy or Zomato

  • Build advanced search features over large datasets
  • Identify and fix performance bottlenecks using profiling tools
  • Improve REST API throughput with caching (Redis), load testing (JMeter), and multi-threading
  • Apply patterns the way senior backend engineers do
Redux
Next.js
SSR
CDN
Advanced CSS
SEO
Caching
Security
Redis
JMeter
Multi-threading
Performance Tuning

Get interview-ready on both Low Level Design and High Level Design — the two pillars every product company uses to test senior engineering candidates.

LLD Foundations — Build & Design Like an Engineer:

  • QContest — Build a HackerRank-like contest platform applying Core Java & Low Level Design (SOLID principles, OOP, Object Modeling, Clean Architecture, Design Patterns)
  • JukeBox — Build a Spotify-like jukebox that plays songs from a playlist, applying machine coding techniques and clean architecture

HLD Foundations — Architect Internet-Scale Systems:

  • Understand the architecture of modern web applications used universally by internet companies
  • Hands-on with the production tech stack: Docker, Kafka, Microservices, CI/CD, Cloud
  • Reason about CAP Theorem, SQL vs NoSQL trade-offs, partitioning, and replication
  • Design for scalability with load balancing, caching layers, and horizontal scaling patterns
SOLID Principles
OOD
Object Modeling
Clean Architecture
Design Patterns
Machine Coding
Microservices
Docker
Kafka
CI/CD
Cloud
CAP Theorem
SQL/NoSQL
Scalability
Load Balancing
Partitioning
Caching

An intensive month of interview rehearsal — designed so you walk into every real interview already having faced the hardest questions.

  • DSA Blitz Sessions — Crack DSA interviews through repeated, time-boxed problem-solving rounds that build speed and confidence
  • Multiple Timed Mock Assessments — Simulate the pressure and pacing of real coding rounds at top product companies
  • AI-Powered Mock Interviews — Practice with an AI interviewer that adapts to your level, gives instant feedback, and lets you rehearse 24/7
  • Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Interviews — Take both sides of the table — interviewing peers sharpens your own answers
  • Resume Defense Prep — Be ready to defend every single skill keyword and project on your resume
  • Specialization-Specific Prep — Targeted prep for your FDT or BDT track, plus take-home assignment practice
DSA Mocks
DSA Blitz
P2P Interviews
Take-Home Prep
Specialization Prep
AI-Powered Mocks
Resume Defense

Cap the program with a real externship — not a capstone. Solve actual problem statements sourced from top Indian tech companies, with AI woven into every challenge.

  • Real Industry Projects — Go beyond typical bootcamp capstones — tackle live problem statements contributed by working teams at real companies
  • AI-Driven Use Cases — Every externship integrates an emerging AI angle so you graduate with a portfolio that's relevant for 2026 hiring
  • Industry Mentorship — Get reviewed and mentored by engineers from the partner companies themselves
  • Past Externship Partners — CRED, Jumbotail, Groww, Vicara, Slice, Recko — and many more rotating partners every cohort
  • Resume-Ready Outcome — Walk away with a verified, real-company project entry on your resume — a massive differentiator at the offer stage
CRED
Jumbotail
Groww
Vicara
Slice
Recko
Industry Mentors
AI Integration

Advanced Add-ons

Only in the Advanced track

Why these add-ons matter: The Advanced add-ons go beyond what traditional QA bootcamps cover. You'll crack DSA for top-tier interviews, master advanced SDET specializations, and learn the exact AI engineering skills (LLMs, RAG, Agents, MCP) and modern frameworks (Playwright) that top product companies are hiring for in 2026.

Master designing & developing industry-grade applications using OOD principles & design patterns

  • Applied OOPs Foundations: Apply OOP concepts in practical scenarios; practice IS-A, HAS-A, USES-A relationships
  • Design clean and reusable industry-grade applications with reusable, modular, extensible software
  • Apply SOLID design principles when designing your solution
  • Learn important design patterns like Singleton, Factory, Builder, Strategy
  • Practice converting PRDs into class diagrams and sequence diagrams
  • Go deeper into schema design and how it impacts extensibility, speed & querying
Encapsulation
Abstraction
Inheritance
Polymorphism
SOLID Principles
Design Patterns
Singleton
Factory
Builder
Strategy
Class Diagram
Sequence Diagram
Machine Coding
Schema Design
Normalization
  • Understand design choices across compute, data-store & communication for large-scale distributed systems like Flipkart
  • Work hands-on with ZCommerce — Crio's distributed microservices-based scalable application on the cloud
  • Contrast microservice with event-driven, big-compute, big-data architectures
  • Learn why ZCommerce uses both EC2 (IaaS) & Elastic Beanstalk (PaaS)
  • Classify workloads as read-heavy, write-heavy, transactional to choose the right data store
  • Understand REST API vs gRPC trade-offs and decrease response time using CDN
Microservices
Event-driven Architecture
Containers
Serverless
Virtual Machines
SQL vs NoSQL
Blob
Time Series DB
Columnar DB
CAP Theorem
Transactions
Data Consistency
REST API
gRPC
CDN
S3
  • Prepare to take on LLD interviews with confidence
  • Master cracking machine coding rounds with quick designs and structured execution
  • Optimize code by using better data structures
  • Practice LLD design questions like BookMyShow, Splitwise, and Trello — commonly asked at leading product companies
LLD
Machine Coding
Schema Design
Object Modeling
Virtual Machines
Interview Preparation
  • Building LLM-Powered Applications (streaming, async, context windows)
  • Vibe Coding with Claude Code & Cursor (AI-native development workflows)
  • From Single Agents to Multi-Agent Systems (orchestration, communication)
  • AI Agents That Integrate Everything (MCP, tool ecosystems)
  • RAG Systems: Search Anything with AI (vector stores, re-ranking, eval)
  • How to Know If Your AI Actually Works (metrics, evaluation, debugging)
  • Production AI: Scaling, Cost & Monitoring (latency, error handling, observability)
  • Capstone: Build & Ship a Real AI Product (from idea to deployment)
LangGraph
Claude Code
Cursor
MCP
FAISS
Pinecone
RAGAS
Langfuse

Crio Grads have Cracked their Dream Careers In

93%

placed within 9
months of graduation

10 LPA

average dream
job CTC

21 LPA

average super-dream
job CTC

1000+

Hiring
Partners

81%

Average
Salary Hike

Gain the competitive edge with mastery of essential development skills

Master leading tech skills like Java, React JS, MongoDB, Kafka

Modern Work Experience-Based Learning Approach

Get access to Crio’s Exclusive Career Services that will equip you to use your learnings and skills to land your next job.

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5 assured interviews with top tech companies with 1:1 Interview preparation before technical interview rounds.

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Soft-Skills training coupled with pre-training and post-training assessments

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Series of mock assessments and detailed interview prep sprints to ace top tech jobs

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Expert guidance to get your profile ready (Github, LinkedIn, Resume)

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Access to a diverse set of job opportunities with 1000+ hiring partners

Program Fee and Scholarships

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(For 36 months)

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Pay the success fee only if you land a job within 6 months of placement eligibility date

Success fee is Rs. 19,999 if CTC is less than 20 LPA.
Success fee is Rs. 39,999 if CTC is greater than 20 LPA.
12 month no-cost EMI and 18, 24 & 36 month low-cost EMI available.

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Work Experience-Based Learning Approach
to Master In-Demand Developer Skills

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5+ work-like projects

Build a rockstar portfolio to demonstrate experience & impress interviewers.

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Work on problem statements from leading tech companies

Get real work ex similar to CRED, Jumbotail, Vicara and more.

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Work on a live prod system in AWS

Gain real work like experience of a Senior Software Developer.

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Master event-driven serverless architecture

Learn concepts like, caching, load balancing.

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20+ micro skilling exercises

Master fullstack development, backend development & low level and high level .

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9+ live interactive sessions

Learn hands-on from seasoned industry professionals.

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Interview focused System Design & DSA curriculum

Master LLD, HLD, data structures and algorithm to crack interviews.

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Exclusive Career Services

Get job-search support, referrals, and career guidance from experienced career coaches.

Real work experience, Real project-based learning with Crio

The best way to learn a skill is by applying what you learn in real scenarios. At Crio, we take it a notch higher by giving you actual work experience-based learning. So, instead of just watching tutorials, you actually experience building real products like professional engineers.

Basically, how a real professional working in a leading product company would grow their career.

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