Overview

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies that serves many customers, enables team members to grow, and operates with high effectiveness and ethical standards. We acquire digital businesses with untapped potential, leverage our platform—our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and culture—and reinvest to strengthen our platform and acquire new businesses. This combines investor-like capital allocation with hands-on operational execution.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress your career at an exceptionally high rate. That’s our promise to such a candidate.

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—understand the purpose of technologies to unleash their full potential.
• Build stuff that matters. Enjoy autonomy and take ownership from ideation to execution. Build software from the ground up and see how your code evolves into a product used at scale.
• Simplify relentlessly. Turn complexity into simplicity by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, writing maintainable code, and crafting minimalist architectures to power scalable, future-proof solutions.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability. You solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas clearly, and attend to details that matter.
• Drive. You are ambitious, take initiative, work hard, and hold yourself to a high, rising bar.
• Team spirit. You support the best idea, are reliable and transparent, and aren’t driven by personal credit alone.
• Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Small, result-oriented, autonomous teams working with bright people.
• Growth opportunities. We hire individuals with strong potential and place them to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with opportunities to contribute to major projects.
• Competitive pay and equity. Salary ranges vary by location and experience, with potential equity options at a discounted price. If relocating to Italy, a 50% tax cut may apply.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote work, generous learning support, comprehensive health insurance, relocation support, parental leave, 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. We set a high bar and may keep the role open for an extended period if needed. We prioritize talent and potential over perfect CV fit. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

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

EEO statement

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.

To help you ramp up quickly and set you up for success, we recommend starting in Milan to absorb our company culture, with travel and accommodation support. After that, you may work from our Milan or London offices, or remotely from approved countries, as agreed at the offer stage.

Application notice

If the role speaks to you and you’re excited to contribute, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now—we can’t wait to meet you.