A highly selective six-month fellowship for India's most promising early-career engineers. Ship production credit infrastructure at Nexo with Claude Code as your primary collaborator — and leave with skills no bootcamp, no degree, and no ordinary job can teach.
In five years, the best engineers in fintech will not be the ones who type fastest. They will be the ones who orchestrate agents, reason about regulatory surfaces, and compress six weeks of work into an afternoon — without shipping a single bug into production.
India does not yet have a training ground for those engineers. We are building one.
Credit decisioning, regulatory reporting, collections, and fraud — each layer touches money, identity, and the RBI. A single bad deploy can cost crores or a licence. This is where careful engineering still matters most.
Used well, it collapses what used to take a senior team into focused work for a single fellow. Used poorly, it produces slop. The difference is taste, judgement, and a craft we can teach.
You do not grow by shipping CRUD screens at a service company for three years. You grow by solving real problems, shoulder-to-shoulder with people who have done it before.
We are not looking for the finished engineer. We are looking for the one who will define what a finished engineer means in this decade.
This fellowship is deliberately narrow. We select twelve people per year from thousands of applicants. The shape of a strong candidate is specific, and the filter is honest.
The fellowship is a job, not a course. You'll be paired with a senior Nexo engineer, given real ownership, and shipped into production. The arc below is deliberate — each phase earns the next.
Work through a purpose-built curriculum: agentic patterns, subagent orchestration, skill authoring, MCP integrations, and the shape of the Nexo codebase. In parallel, learn the lending stack — origination, underwriting, KYC, credit bureaux, disbursal, collections — at a depth most engineers three years in do not have.
Take a real user-facing or infrastructure feature from spec to deploy, pairing with a senior engineer and Claude Code. Write the tests, the migration, the rollout plan, the post-mortem. Everything gets reviewed. Nothing gets merged without your name on it.
Credit decisioning model deployment. A compliance-grade audit trail. A fraud pattern no one has caught yet. Pick one, scoped with a staff engineer, and own the full arc. This is the work we'll evaluate your fellowship on.
Every fellow publishes — a technical essay, an open-source skill or pattern, or a piece of internal tooling released to the community. The best writing from each cohort becomes canonical reference for how AI-assisted engineering is done in regulated industries.
The stipend is the floor, not the point. The point is that for six months, nothing stands between you and doing the best work of your life.
Paid on the first of every month. ₹6,00,000 across the fellowship. No performance clawbacks.
MacBook Pro of your choice. Claude Pro subscription. Any IDE, any book, any course. We pay for what you need the day you need it.
Weekly review with a senior engineer. Monthly founder sit-down. Quarterly external critique from engineers at companies we admire.
Top performers receive a senior engineer offer with competitive cash and meaningful equity. If it's not the right fit, we'll actively help place you elsewhere — our alumni network is the whole point.
The process is designed to be honest, fast, and hard. We will not leave you waiting for weeks. We will also not let anyone in who has not earned the seat.
Resume plus three short essays. No GPA, no coaching-class-friendly questions. We want to understand how you think, what you've built, and why this.
A realistic, scoped lending problem. Solve it with Claude Code and submit the result with your full commit history and a written reflection on what worked, what didn't, and what you'd do differently.
Ninety minutes solving a novel problem alongside a Nexo engineer. No tricks. We're watching how you think, how you use your tools, and how you respond when something breaks.
A conversation with the founding team and CHRO. We're trying to understand what you want out of the next ten years, and whether this fellowship is the fastest path to it. It's a two-way interview.
If your question isn't here, write to us. We read every email.
No. We teach the domain. What we can't teach is curiosity, craft, and the willingness to do hard things. Several of our strongest candidates have never touched financial software in their lives.
Yes, and we mean it. The application asks about what you've built, not where you studied. Some of our most interesting applicants are self-taught. We read everyone's submission.
The fellowship requires a full-time commitment for six months. You'll need to resign or take sabbatical to join. Several of our fellows do this. It's a deliberate filter.
Yes. The fellowship is remote-first and works from anywhere in India with a stable internet connection. We hold one in-person gathering per cohort, and we pay for travel.
You leave with six months of world-class work, a public portfolio, a written recommendation, and an alumni network that spans the Indian fintech ecosystem. We actively help fellows who aren't converted find their next role. We take this responsibility seriously.
No. It's a fellowship. The distinction matters. Interns get tasks. Fellows get ownership, a voice in decisions, and their name on production code. The stipend reflects that.
No. There has never been a fee. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not us.
Applications for the 2026 cohort close on the 30th of May.