“AI-Ready Product Engineer” Curriculum

Curriculum outcome = AI-Ready Product Engineer

  • 15 monthsfor the full programme. Module 1 on its own takes 6 months.
  • 30–40 hours a weekFull-time study, at your own pace.
  • On site, remote or bothTwo Sprint weeks on site, then a learning centre open 24/7, home, or a mix.
  • No coding neededFor anyone 18+ with English at B2 who likes figuring things out.

The test is free and takes 30 minutes. The next Selection Sprint runs from 18 January to 5 February 2027, and applications close on 12 January.

A team plans a project on paper around a shared table during Selection Sprint 21 at kood/Jõhvi

Take one product from idea to launch

Pick an idea and walk it through the seven steps of a product engineer’s job.

  • Product

Ask why

Before any code, you talk to five neighbours. The fights aren’t about booking times. They’re about who forgot the firewood, so version 1 needs a wood rota as much as a calendar.

Where you learn it

// problem.md
Problem   Saturday slots clash, and the
          wood runs out mid-week.
Who       14 households, one sauna.
It works  no double bookings and no
when      cold Saturdays for a month.
The one page your team agrees on before building.

7 questions that separate a product engineer from a vibe coder

Each topic opens with a question. You answer it by building a project with your team, and the next topic stacks on what you built before. Tap a topic to see what you build, the code, how you use AI and the part of the job around the code.

Selection Sprint3 weeks

Module 1: Programming fundamentals and backendUp to 6 months, ends with a certificate

Module 2: Product engineeringUp to 9 months, ends with the diploma

Graduationafter 15 months

Selection Sprint / 3 weeks, two on site and one remote

Is this way of learning for me?

You build
Short tasks that a machine checks, exams on two Fridays, and bigger team tasks at the weekends.
Code
Programming basics in Java and the tools developers use every day. No experience needed before you start.
Around the code
Working with people you met that week, and finding answers yourself before you ask. Tutors guide you with questions and hints instead of answers.

Every project ends with a peer review, and every topic has its own AI step, so by the time AI writes most of the code you can tell when it’s wrong. Each module answers something our advisory board told us. See what kood/Fellowship said

//kood has its own curriculum team and its own learning platform team. They design what you learn, build the platform you learn on, and change both when the work changes.

“We started from what a junior engineer is trusted with in their first year and worked backwards. Every topic opens with a question you’ll meet at work, and you answer it by building with a team. You get AI from the first week, and more of it as you learn to check it.”

Viktor VeerteeCurriculum Lead at //kood
Viktor Veertee, Curriculum Lead at //kood, explains the curriculum on stage with a microphone in hand

We dare to say it’s the best

35+

interviews, and counting

We rebuilt the curriculum in 2026 after interviewing tech recruiters, senior engineers, engineering managers and our own alumni, and checking what they said against job market data from Europe, the US and Africa. We never stopped asking: the conversations go on, and they grew into kood/Fellowship. Three findings hold everywhere:

  • The technical bar for a first job has gone up. Testing, documentation and checking AI output now get you in the door.
  • The skills around the code decide who grows: talking about trade-offs, taking feedback, owning an outcome.
  • AI made writing code cheaper. Judging whether it’s right got more valuable.

kood/Fellowship

advises what you learn

kood/Fellowship is the curriculum’s advisory board. Tech leaders from Bolt, Katana, Swedbank and other companies tell us what they’ll expect from a new engineer, and we build their answers into how you learn. They meet //kood at least twice a year.

“If you can’t code, you’re just a vibe coder.”

Oliver Leisalu, technical founder of Bolt, kood/Fellowship member

Meet the board

Our own team

keeps it running and keeps it current

The curriculum and platform team update the curriculum all the time and often fix bugs before anyone even notices them.

The team runs an international platform that thousands of people join every year. Most recent countries:

Finland / Germany / Kenya / Uganda / Ukraine

99 little bugs in the code,
99 little bugs.
Take one down, patch it around,
127 little bugs in the code.
Every developer knows this song. Our team makes sure the number goes down.

If you can’t work without AI, employers won’t hire you. If you can’t work with AI, you’ll fall behind. At //kood you learn both.

That’s what employers tell us. More than 190 employers have hired from //kood so far.

People working on their projects at laptops in a bright kood/Jõhvi study room

You learn peer to peer. No teachers, no lectures.

Stuck? You’re not on your own.

  • Your teamYou build every project with one to three others and work through problems together.
  • A student mentorIn your first five weeks, a student from an earlier batch meets your small group every week.
  • The whole schoolAsk in the study forum on //kood’s Discord, where learners from every batch and learning centre help each other.
  • AI as a tutorIt explains error messages and docs. You check what it tells you.
  • The //kood teamA community manager at every learning centre, a study coordinator for deadlines and study questions, and a tech team for platform problems. Reach them on Discord or by email.

Each topic builds on the one before. You keep going deeper into what you know and wider into what needs it.

Study where it suits you. At kood/Jõhvi, kood/Võru or kood/Järva in Paide with your own 24-hour door card, from home, or both.

Saba Gul, Product Engineer on the //kood learning platform team
Saba GulProduct Engineer, learning platform

Our own learning platform

“Not long ago I was a student on this platform myself. Now I help build it with a team of engineers who are just as passionate about making every student’s journey smoother. We’re making it faster, safer and easier to use, and we’ve started connecting students across batches, so you review and learn alongside people a step ahead or a step behind you. Building it to bring the community closer together.”

Where graduates work?

500+

graduates so far, from the first six batches

83%

of graduates with a job work in tech roles

50%

of //kood people in tech build software. The other half run the rest of the product.

Who hires them

Startups, IT service firms, corporates, scale-ups, the public sector and banks. No single employer has hired more than 11 //kood people.

Our alumni work at 190+ organisations, including

  • Wise
  • Bolt
  • Pipedrive
  • LHV
  • SEB
  • Swedbank
  • Microsoft
  • Veriff

Help with your first job

Our Talent Manager gives you personal career advice on your CV, LinkedIn profile, cover letter and job interviews. Career events with partner companies run through the year, and at kood/Connect companies come to meet you. The next one is on 4 March 2027 in kood/Jõhvi.

Career support

Karmen Tigas, Talent Manager at //kood, speaks on stage in a //kood T-shirt
Karmen TigasTalent Manager at //kood

Pick your programme

Module 1 + Module 2 = AI-Ready Product Engineer

Module 1 / 6 months / certificate

2500 €

or 300 € a month

Changing careers? Career support services can cover up to 2500 € of retraining that lasts up to 6 months. That’s exactly Module 1.

What you learn

  • Selection Sprint, 3 weeks and free: you write your first programs in Java, solve team tasks and learn to find answers yourself
  • T1–T4: code that works, apps that remember, systems that talk to yours, services people rely on
  • Go or Java, a server-side framework, SQL and PostgreSQL, Git, Docker and CI pipelines
  • AI as a tutor, then a coding assistant, then a teammate you delegate to
  • A certificate, with the option to continue into the full programme

How to pay

  1. 300 € a month, carrying on after the 6 months until it’s paid, or up front.
  2. Your employer pays, up front or in instalments.
Take the test

Module 1 + Module 2 / 15 months / diploma

4500 €

or 300 € a month

Bolt scholarship for women. Bolt covers the full tuition for one woman in every batch.

What you learn

  • Selection Sprint, 3 weeks and free: you write your first programs in Java, solve team tasks and learn to find answers yourself
  • Everything in Module 1
  • T5–T7: products people use, systems with real stakes, AI that is useful
  • TypeScript, Node.js and a frontend framework, then services, queues and payments
  • Product thinking: what to build, for whom, and whether it worked
  • AI inside your own product: retrieval, embeddings and function calling
  • A diploma as an AI-Ready Product Engineer

How to pay

  1. Pay flexibly in instalments of 300 € a month, or up front.
  2. Pay after your studies with the Study Income Sharing Agreement (ISA), once you earn more than the Estonian average salary.
  3. Your employer pays, up front or in instalments.
Take the test

Who can apply: anyone 18 or older with basic education and English at B2 level. No coding experience needed, and the studies are in English. Applying is free: the logic game, the info session and the Selection Sprint cost nothing. Full pricing and ISA terms

Looking for the full curriculum description? Academic hours, learning outcomes, assessment, issued documents and the study agreement terms are on their own page. Read the full curriculum description

Start with a 30-minute game

It’s free and has no code in it. It shows how you think, and you see your result straight away. Then come to an info session and the Selection Sprint.

In short

You become
An AI-Ready Product Engineer in 15 months
You learn
Code, AI and the product work around them
How
Team projects and peer review, no lectures
Next Sprint
18.01–5.02.2027, apply by 12.01.2027