Overview

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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.

To achieve this objective, we execute the following strategy: We acquire a digital business with untapped potential and make it as successful as we can by leveraging our platform—which comprises our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture. Then, we invest the proceeds into making our platform more powerful, and into acquiring new businesses. Thus, our strategy sees us combine an investor’s attention to capital allocation 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 their career at an exceptionally high rate. That’s our promise to such a candidate.

Responsibilities

• Master your toolkit. By working across diverse tech stacks, 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 that true expertise is about understanding purpose to unleash tools’ full potential.
• Build stuff that matters. Regardless of your seniority, you’ll enjoy autonomy and take ownership from ideation to execution. You’ll have the opportunity to build software from the ground up and see how your code becomes a product used at scale.
• Simplify relentlessly. Turn complexity into simplicity by optimizing pipelines, writing maintainable 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, and attend to important details.
• Drive. You are ambitious, take initiative, and hold yourself to a high standard.
• Team spirit. You support the best idea, work collaboratively, and are reliable and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Small, autonomous teams working with bright people in your field.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We hire individuals with high potential and place them to thrive on major projects over time.
• Competitive pay and equity. Salary ranges are provided and may include equity options; relocation and tax considerations may apply depending on location.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote working, learning support, health insurance, relocation assistance, parental support, and regular company retreats.

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 few tests to assess how you approach unfamiliar problems. Tests are challenging and may take several hours. If successful, you’ll be invited to interviews. We set a high bar and may keep the job open for months or repost it.

Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider all applicants and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—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.

To help you ramp up quickly, we recommend spending your first months in the Milan office, with travel and accommodation support. Afterward, you may work from our Milan or London offices, or remotely from approved countries, depending on the offer stage.

If the role speaks to you and you’re excited to contribute, apply now—we can’t wait to meet you.