Overview

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Bending Spoons is striving to build one of the all-time great companies with a strong emphasis on learning, impact, and growth while upholding high ethical standards. The company pursues a strategy of acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and strengthening its platform through technology, data, brand, talent, and culture.

Responsibilities

• Master your toolkit. Work across diverse tech stacks to select the right tools for each challenge, from monolithic to microservices architectures, gRPC to REST APIs, Kubernetes to Docker, Python to Rust. The goal is to understand the purpose of technologies to unleash their potential.
• Build stuff that matters. Enjoy autonomy and own your work from ideation to execution, building software from the ground up and delivering products used at scale.
• Simplify relentlessly. Turn complexity into simplicity by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, writing maintainable code, and creating minimalist architectures to enable scalable, future-proof solutions.

What we look for (Qualifications)

• Reasoning ability. Ability to solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas clearly, and focus on details that matter.
• Drive. Ambitious, with initiative, effort, tenacity, and a high bar for performance.
• Team spirit. Collaborative, support the best idea, willing to help the team, reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. Read, write, and speak proficient English.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Small, result-oriented, autonomous teams with strong colleagues.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. Clear potential for advancement; Spooners in their 20s contribute to major products and projects.
• Competitive pay and equity. Salary ranges and equity options with potential relocation tax considerations.
• 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 interviews. The process may take several hours for tests and multiple interview rounds. Offers are made after careful evaluation to ensure the right fit.

Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider for employment any applicant and provide reasonable accommodations for an individual with disabilities—just 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. If the role speaks to you, apply now—we’d love to hear from you.

Additional notes

To help you ramp up quickly, initial ramp-up may involve working from our Milan office. We’ll support travel and accommodation as needed. Afterward, you may work from Milan or London offices, or remotely from approved countries, depending on the offer stage.