Company Playbook: CRED India — roles, skills, interview prep + openings

What CRED tends to hire for (India)

This is a practical map to help you prepare faster. Use the openings page below to validate roles and keywords.

Roles you’ll commonly see

• SDE‑1 / SDE‑2 / SSE (backend)
• Mobile (Android/iOS)
• Data / Analytics
• Platform / DevOps / SRE
• QA / SDET

Skills to highlight (resume + interviews)

• One strong language + fundamentals (DSA + debugging)
• APIs + databases (indexes, transactions, query thinking)
• Reliability basics: logging, monitoring, retries, idempotency
• Performance mindset: caching, profiling, latency

Interview prep checklist (7–10 days)

1. Revise 25–40 DSA problems across core patterns
2. Prepare 2 project stories: scale, tradeoffs, and impact
3. Practice 4–6 system design prompts (for 2–5 yrs)
4. Write 6 STAR stories (ownership, conflict, failure, speed)

Open roles now (StackCV links)

• CRED openings
• Fintech openings
• SDE in Bengaluru
• SSE in Bengaluru