Bending Spoons
Graduate software engineer
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Senior Software 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 shareholders at an extraordinary rate. And a company that adheres to high ethical standards.
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, and strengthen business performance. We operate with minimal hierarchy, talent-dense teams, and the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. AI is integrated deeply into our workflow, reinforcing human judgment with machine intelligence.
If you’re a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons represents an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress your career at an exceptionally high rate.
Key Responsibilities
- Build software that matters: Take full ownership from idea to production, creating systems used by millions and scaling them into market-leading products.
- Amplify your impact with AI: Integrate advanced AI tools into your development workflow (design, implementation, testing, and documentation) to accelerate delivery while maintaining correctness, reliability, and maintainability.
- Master your toolkit: Work across diverse stacks—monoliths to microservices, gRPC to REST, Kubernetes to Docker, Python to Rust—applying technologies purposefully, not tradition.
- Simplify relentlessly: Challenge complexity at every level, improving architectures, pipelines, and codebases to build systems that are simpler, more scalable, and easier to maintain.
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What We Look For
- Reasoning ability: Solve complex problems from first principles. Structure ideas sharply, resist bias, and focus on critical details.
- Drive: Be extremely ambitious—your initiative, effort, and tenacity will match the intensity of your goals. Take deep accountability for your work and set progressively higher standards.
- Team spirit: Give generously without expecting anything in return. Support the best idea, not your own. Help others get their hands dirty when needed. Be reliable, honest, and transparent.
- Proficiency in English: Strong reading, writing, and speaking skills in English.
What We Offer
- Exceptional teams: Work in small, autonomous, high-performing teams with top talent in your field.
- Unparalleled growth: We invest in individuals of outstanding potential, placing them in ideal positions to thrive. Many Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions.
- All-inclusive benefits:
- Flexible hours and remote work
- Unlimited support for learning and training
- Top-tier health insurance
- Generous relocation and parental support packages
- Yearly retreats to top-tier destinations
- Flexible entry: Apply before graduating. Start on a part-time basis and transition to full-time as you complete your degree.
- Competitive compensation:
- Starter salary (base):
- £85,797 in London, EURO66,065 elsewhere in Europe
- Mid to senior range (base):
- £112,189–£250,512 (London), EURO107,837–EURO188,848 (elsewhere)
- Compound adjustments: Salaries scale rapidly with experience and impact.
- Equity options: Upon offer for permanent roles, eligible to purchase discounted company shares.
- If relocating to Italy: Up to a 50% tax cut.
- Starter salary (base):
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Commitment & Contract
- Format: Permanent or fixed-term
- Workload: Full-time
Location
Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or fully remote (from eligible countries).
Selection Process
We prioritise verifiable signals of excellence—seniority doesn’t matter as much as your ability to deliver. Every candidate undergoes the same rigorous process.
How to Apply
- Submit your application through our careers page.
- Screening этап: Expect challenging tests (may involve unfamiliar problems & multi-hour assessments).
- We set our bar high—offers only go to the best fit, which is why positions may stay open for months or get reposted.
Important Notes
- Applicants with disabilities: Please notify us here<br> [Reasonable accommodations available].
- Reapplying: Wait at least one year since your last application before retrying.
Before You Apply
Bending Spoons is demanding. High ambition and performance are tempered by rapid growth, achievement, but require full commitment.
- Work location: Expect to spend your first few months at our Milan office (offsite location), depending on final agreement. We’ll cover travel/accommodation costs.
- Flexibility: After initial phase, you’re welcome to work from cities/offices or unsupported countries.
If this role excites you, apply now—we’re looking forward to your application.
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