Bending Spoons
Graduate software engineer
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Joining Bending Spoons
At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, where team members grow to their full potential, and that excels at effectiveness, efficiency, and ethical integrity.
In pursuit of this, we acquire and scale digital businesses for the long term. We thrive on deep transformations—combining startup-level agility with the precision of a large-scale operation. AI is embedded in how we work, integrating human judgment with machine intelligence.
Here, talent-dense teams work without excessive hierarchy. You’ll own full-cycle projects, from conception to production, shaping systems used by millions. We might all start with varied roles, but within months, Spooners are leading products worth hundreds of millions.
We promise rapid, high-impact career growth to those who share our mindset; meagre compensation is never an issue for those who out-perform.
A Few Examples of Your Responsibilities
- Build software that matters: Take end-to-end ownership, turning ideas into products that scale.
- Amplify with AI: Seamlessly integrate AI tools into design, implementation, testing, and documentation—boosting speed without sacrificing correctness, reliability, and maintainability.
- Master your toolkit: Work across monoliths, microservices, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, Python, Rust, and more—applying technologies purposefully, not trend-chasing.
- Simplify relentlessly: Challenge complexity at every level—improve architectures, pipelines, and codebases to make them scalable, maintainable, and efficient.
What We Look For
- Sharpened reasoning:
- Break down complex problems with first principles and identify details that matter.
- Recognition that expediency isn’t success without quality.
- Bidirectional debate: Defend your ideas, or defer when another has the better route.
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Drive:
- Ambitious approach to initiative, effort, and tenacity. Align tasks with a rising bar of excellence.
- Centrality of responsibility—ownership is what solves problems.
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Team spirit:
- Selflessly support—prioritise collaboration, not individual silos.
- Help without reservation when teammates need it.
- Reliability: Honest in feedback, transparent in progress, and realistic in commitments.
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Proficiency in English:
- Clarity in written and spoken communication for cross-country collaboration.
What We Offer
A Virtuous Environment
- Work alongside coalescing expertise in small, entrepreneurial squads focused on outcomes—not titles or hierarchy.
Career Growth
- Targetes bjections include individuals where career growth isn’t stagnation: Spooners in their 20s already lead $+100M projects.
- Flexible entry; full-time acceleration: Apply before graduating, start part-time and progress as you do. Sky’s the limit for those who demonstrate capability.
Benefits
- All these offerings:
- Flexible hours • Remote work
- Unlimited learning support
- Top-tier health insurance
- Generous relocation, parental, and investment support
- Annual retreat to thriving locations
- Competitive pay + equity:
- Junior roles:
- ~£85,797 (London) and €65,065 (above Europe)
- Senior roles (depending on impact):
- Up to £250,512 (London) and €188,848 (other Europe)
- Performance-based incrementing with experience, scaled by contribution.
- Optional equity discounts when eligible contributors are on permanent contracts.
- Tax breaks for relocation to Italy (up to 50%).
- Junior roles:
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Flexibility
- Flexible start date: Prime candidates aren’t posthumous to graduation.
- Part-time to Full-time.*
Commitment & Contract
- Permanent or Fixed-term, full-time
Location
Available globally: (Primary) Milan, London, Madrid, Warsaw, or any eligible remote position.
The Selection Process
- We prioritize verifiable excellence at all levels, beyond mere experience.
- No shortcuts: Traditional CVs get you scrolled, not a seat.
- Tests: Rigorous, prolonged, and variable—summarily structured, reinforced by the mentor criteria we’d recognize as possible.
exclude cut-off warning. Your seriousness about the role (or lack of self-evaluation that this is a level-stopper) determines if we reconnect.
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Bending Spoons is exacting. Demanding, high-value outcomes meet astutes of convoluted achievements. Teams are tight-knit, high-performing, and high-energy—often requiring frequent use of our Milan office early to foster up to potential.
Accommodations
We welcome equal applicant consideration and consultative assistance if required—fill this portal for inquiry.
Before You Apply
Self-rejecting because of perceived flaws performs better abandoned. Come apply and let us discern if you are beyond an entry hurdle value mismatch.
All applications are channeled, verified, and screened through our Careers Page only—no third-party channels.
Ready, Set, Go
If you’re excited for sustained impact, we’d like to hear your story—Apply now.
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