Overview

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At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies, with a focus on growth, impact, and high ethical standards. This opportunity is for a talented, driven, and collaborative individual to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate.

Responsibilities

• Master your toolkit. Work across diverse tech stacks to refine your ability to choose the right tools for every challenge. From monolithic to microservices architectures, gRPC to REST APIs, Kubernetes to Docker, Python to Rust, you’ll demonstrate understanding of tools and their purposes to unleash their full potential.
• Build stuff that matters. Regardless of seniority, you’ll have autonomy and ownership from ideation to execution, building software from the ground up and seeing how your code evolves into a product used at scale.
• Simplify relentlessly. Turn complexity into simplicity by optimizing processes, maintaining code, and crafting minimalist architectures to power scalable solutions.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability. You solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas clearly, resist biases, and focus on critical details.
• Drive. You are ambitious with initiative, effort, and tenacity, holding yourself to a high and rising standard.
• Team spirit. You collaborate, support the best idea, help the team, and are reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Work in small, autonomous teams alongside bright colleagues.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We hire individuals with outstanding potential and place them to thrive; Spooners in their 20s lead significant projects.
• Competitive pay and equity. Salary ranges are provided and pay grows with experience; equity options may be available; relocation tax considerations may apply.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote work, learning support, comprehensive health insurance, relocation assistance, parental support, and annual retreats.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK) or remote.

The selection process

Screening tests to assess problem-solving approaches, followed by a series of interviews if you pass. The process may be lengthy as we seek the right candidate. We encourage applicants even if CV is not a perfect fit and emphasise talent over experience. We provide accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

Equal opportunity

Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. If you need accommodations, let us know through the application form. We encourage you to apply if you feel you could be awesome at the role.