Overview
Graduate Software Engineer role at Bending Spoons.
At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company where team members grow to their full potential and operate at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. Our strategy focuses on acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential, leveraging our platform, and investing proceeds to strengthen the platform and acquire new businesses. We combine an investor’s capital allocation mindset with the hands-on approach of an operator.
For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress your career at a high rate.
Responsibilities
* Master your toolkit. Work across diverse tech stacks to choose the right tools for each challenge. From monolithic to microservices architectures, gRPC to REST APIs, Kubernetes to Docker, Python to Rust—you’ll demonstrate that effective use of tools matters more than chasing the trendiest technologies.
* Build stuff that matters. You’ll have autonomy and ownership from ideation to execution, building software from the ground up and seeing how your code becomes a product used at scale.
* Simplify relentlessly. Turn complexity into simplicity by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, writing maintainable code, and crafting minimalist architectures for scalable, future-proof solutions.
What we look for
* Reasoning ability. You solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and focus on the details that matter.
* Drive. You are ambitious and take initiative, with a strong sense of responsibility for your work and high standards that continuously rise.
* Team spirit. You support the best idea, help your team, are reliable, honest, and transparent.
* Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficient English.
What we offer
* Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Small, result-oriented, autonomous teams working with bright people in the field.
* An exceptional growth opportunities. We hire individuals with high potential and place them in roles to thrive; Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
* Competitive pay and equity. Salary ranges are provided for the UK and elsewhere, with significant growth with experience, plus potential equity participation. Relocation tax considerations may apply in Italy.
* All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote work, generous learning support, health insurance, relocation support, parental benefits, and an annual retreat.
Commitment & contract
Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.
Location
Milan (Italy), London (UK) or remote.
The selection process
If you pass our screening, you’ll complete a series of challenging tests to assess how you approach unfamiliar problems, followed by interviews. We set a high bar and may keep the role open for months or repost it.
Studies suggest that women tend not to apply for a job if CVs aren’t a perfect fit. Here, talent takes precedence over experience. If you like the role and think you could be awesome at it in time, apply.
Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider all applicants and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—please let us know through this form.
Before you apply: If you’ve applied before but didn’t receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again.
Bending Spoons is a demanding environment with high standards. While it leads to extraordinary learning and growth, it also requires significant commitment. To help you ramp up quickly, we recommend spending your first months in our Milan office, regardless of long-term work location, with travel and accommodation support. After that, you may work from Milan or London offices, or remotely from approved countries as agreed at the offer stage.
If the role speaks to you and you’re excited to contribute, apply now—we’d love to meet you.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
* Software Development
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