Overview

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Bending Spoons is a company aiming to build one of the all-time great companies by delivering value to customers, enabling team growth, and operating with high ethical standards. We pursue a strategy of acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential, leveraging our platform, and reinvesting to strengthen it and grow new businesses.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons offers opportunities to learn, make an impact, and progress your career rapidly.

• Master your toolkit. Work across diverse tech stacks to choose the right tools for each challenge. From monolithic to microservices architectures, gRPC to REST APIs, Kubernetes to Docker, Python to Rust, and more, applying expertise to unleash each technology’s potential.
• Build stuff that matters. Enjoy autonomy and own your work from ideation to execution. Build software from the ground up and see how your code evolves into a scalable product.
• Simplify relentlessly. Strive to remove unnecessary complexity, optimize CI/CD pipelines, write maintainable code, and craft minimalist architectures for scalable, future-proof solutions.

• Reasoning ability. Solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas clearly, resist biases, and focus on detail that matters.
• Drive. Be ambitious, take initiative, and hold yourself to a high and rising bar.
• Team spirit. Support the best idea, help the team, stay reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. Read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Small, result-oriented, autonomous teams with top peers.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We hire individuals of outstanding potential and place them to thrive; Spooners in their 20s often lead major projects.
• Competitive pay and equity. Salary ranges vary by location and experience, with potential equity and relocation tax considerations.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote work, learning support, excellent health insurance, relocation assistance, parental support, and an annual retreat.

Permanent or fixed-term, full-time.

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

After screening, you may complete tests designed to assess problem-solving approaches. Successful candidates will be invited to interviews. The process aims to find the right fit and may involve multiple steps.

Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities; please let us know through this form.

If you’ve applied before but didn’t receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again.