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The company aims to build one of the all-time great companies with a focus on customer impact, team growth, high effectiveness, and ethical standards. The strategy combines acquiring digital businesses, leveraging a strong platform, and investing proceeds to enhance the platform and acquire new businesses. This role offers an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress your career at a high rate.

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.
• Build stuff that matters. You’ll have autonomy and own your work from ideation to execution, building software from the ground up and seeing 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 for scalable, future-proof solutions.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability. Ability to solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas clearly, and pay attention to details that matter.
• Drive. Ambition, initiative, effort, tenacity, and a high, rising bar for performance.
• Team spirit. Supportive, collaborative, reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. Read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Small, autonomous, results-oriented teams.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We hire individuals with outstanding potential and place them to thrive; early-career Spooners lead significant projects.
• Competitive pay and equity options. Salary ranges in the UK and elsewhere, with potential equity and rapid growth as experience increases. Relocation benefits and tax considerations may apply.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote work, learning support, 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 approach to unfamiliar problems, followed by a series of interviews if you pass. The process may take several hours. The company notes that it sets a high bar and may keep roles open for extended periods.

Equal opportunity statement

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

Before you apply

If you have applied before and did not receive an offer, consider waiting at least one year before applying again. The company acknowledges a demanding environment and high standards, and provides support to help you ramp up quickly, including initial work from the Milan office and travel/accommodation assistance. After ramp-up, work from Milan, London, or other approved locations.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development