Bending Spoons
Graduate data scientist
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Graduate data scientist
Data Systems Engineer
At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers. A company where team members grow to their full potential. A company that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. A company that creates value for shareowners at an extraordinary rate. And a company that does so while adhering to high ethical standards.
About Our Approach
In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, not to sell on, but to own and operate for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to:
- Speed up innovation
- Benefit customers
- Strengthen business performance
Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small, talent-dense, and operate with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.
This is an opportunity for a talented, driven, and collaborative individual to: ✔ Learn ✔ Make an impact ✔ Progress their career at an exceptionally high rate
Responsibilities
Examples of what you’ll do:
- Design and improve data pipelines—contributing to the evolution of data systems to ensure accuracy, reliability, and efficient processing across diverse tech stacks.
- Ensure data correctness and scalability, working closely with software engineers to:
- Validate data
- Define key metrics
- Improve robustness in reporting and analytics systems
- Develop internal data products and tooling, including scalable solutions like:
- Reporting engines
- Forecasting tools
- (Used broadly across the company by product teams)
- Support platform-wide decision-making by partnering with multiple teams to:
- Drive analytical and modeling work
- Inform business planning and performance tracking
- Leverage AI to accelerate work and uncover insights, enabling you to:
- Move faster within processes
- Surface actionable ideas and opportunities
- Study competitor products and industry trends
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Requirements & Qualities
We look for individuals who demonstrate:
- Reasoning ability: Solves complex problems from first principles while identifying kritical details and mitigating bias.
- Drive: Self-starters with extraordinary ambition and effort who hold themselves to an escalating standard of excellence.
- Team spirit: Collaborative teamwork by proactively supporting peers, championing the best ideas—not just your own—and embracing hands-on help mentality.
- English proficiency: Fluid reading, writing, and communication skills in English.
What We Offer
Family & Work-Life Culture
- Talent-dense teams: Result-oriented, autonomous groups of high-impact professionals.
- Unparalleled growth opportunities: We aim to identify, train, and position high-potential candidates for senior roles rapidly. Spooners in their 20s routinely lead products worth hundreds of millions.
- Flexibility & Process:
- Flexible working hours
- Remote working options
- Unlimited learning & professional development budgets
Compensation & Benefits
- Trade-offs: Top-of-market salary with competitive equity offer. Permanent hires gain access to service discounts on a selection of notable software offerings.
- Equity provision on joining through a pre-filled company share option plan scheme.
- ** salivary (health) insurance policies** (served by broadband applicants).
- Growth-funded sponsorship:
- tax relief: (50% of annual salary tax relief for recently verified Milan-generated roles) for the first three years.
- Relational Support including:
- Generous relocation aid
- Parental assistance packages
- Inspirational Retreats: Annual company-wide retreat in a beautiful location.
- Compensation & Equity Ranges
- Based on internal merit screening, work experience, and appropriate impact profiles:
- London applicants:
- Entry: £85,797 (+ equity default), exit: £112,189–£250,512
- European/Global applicants:
- Entry: €66,065 (+lower-equity-standard applicable), exit: €107,837–€188,848 and beyond (if exceptional output).
- Regardless of role or experience, Differentiated overall marketplace-responsive allowances fostering long-term engaging.
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Employment & Dynamic Setup
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Options: Permanent contract (or fixed-term), full-time or part-time arrangements.
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Emitter Locations:
- On-site & hybrid: Milan (It), London (UK), Madrid (Sp), Warsaw (PL)
- Remote (from approved countries Onboarding/Insourcing Requirement**: Initial 3–6 month office presence at Milan preferred.
Selection Process
We prioritize meritocratic signals of excellence regardless of standing.
- No shortcuts: Pathway selection is based on application quality alone.
- Honest assessment: Every candidate undergoes identical evaluation.
- Diligent err, heeding claims of lack of experience or interpreted CV "imperfections".
The application process follows:
- Career page submission.
- Pre-vetting of documentation provided.
- One or more systemic challenges (sole resource of candidate), occasionally spanning multiple hours, and often characterize unconventional tasks or niche problems.
- Decision on results.
For further guidance on the selected assessment pathway: [Interim resources link forthcoming]
Application Daryl Reposts occasionally or remains open for extended periods until an incumbent achievement is identified.
Hooray to applying!—we’d love to be inspired and explore your potential. So take the leap, now is waiting.
Note: Remote selections (contextuals or hybrid) comply with eligibility and specifications provided at the time of offer. So you can tailor additional mechanisms such via;
We meanfully consider qualified applicants and accommodate requirements—enumerate Formual nationality/reasonable adjustments—via [Special Accommodation Pathway].
Pre-application grounds are advised for existing candidates (keep this in mind): a minimum one-year delay enforced between initial and subsequent submissions.
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