Graduate software engineer

Graduate software engineer – Bending Spoons At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, where team members grow to their full potential, and that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency while adhering to high ethical standards. To achieve this objective, we acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and make them highly successful by leveraging a platform that includes our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and culture. The proceeds are reinvested to enhance the platform and acquire new businesses, combining strategic capital allocation with hands‑on operations. 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. Work across diverse tech stacks, choosing the right tools for every challenge—from monolithic to microservices architectures, gRPC to REST APIs, Kubernetes to Docker, Python to Rust—showing true expertise by understanding their purpose. Build stuff that matters. Enjoy autonomy and take full ownership of work, from ideation to execution. Build software from scratch and witness how code evolves into a product used at scale. Simplify relentlessly. Question the necessity of every component and process. Turn complexity into simplicity, whether optimizing CI/CD pipelines, writing maintainable code, or crafting minimalist architectures. Qualifications Reasoning ability. Solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and care for critical details. Drive. Exhibit extreme ambition, initiative, effort, and tenacity. Feel deeply responsible for your work and hold yourself to a rising bar. Team spirit. Give generously, support the best idea, not your own, and help the team; be reliable, honest, and transparent. Proficiency in English. Read, write, and speak English fluently. Benefits Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Work in small, result‑oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in the field. An exceptional opportunity for growth. Hire individuals of outstanding potential, then place them in ideal positions to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Competitive pay and equity access. In London, starting salary is £85,797; with experience up to £250,512. Elsewhere in Europe, €66,065 to €188,848. Compensation grows rapidly with experience and impact, and equity is offered on a permanent contract. Comprehensive benefits. Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited learning support, top‑tier health insurance, relocation package, generous parental support, and yearly retreat. Commitment & Contract Permanent or fixed‑term, full‑time. Location Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries. Selection Process After screening, you will complete tests assessing your problem‑solving approach. Successful completion leads to a series of interviews. The role may stay open for months or be reposted; we set the bar high and only extend an offer when we’re convinced we’ve found the right candidate. Women may feel discouraged by a perfect fit CV expectation; here talent takes precedence over experience. Apply if you can be awesome at this role in time. Bending Spoons is an equal‑opportunity and affirmative‑action employer. We consider all applicants and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—please let us know through this form. Before You Apply If you’ve applied before but didn’t receive an offer, wait at least one year before applying again. We’re a demanding environment. We hold ourselves and each other to a high standard, which drives extraordinary learning, achievement, and career growth—yet requires significant commitment. To ramp up quickly, we recommend working from our Milan office for the first few months to absorb culture and build trust. We’ll support with travel and accommodation assistance. Afterward, you can work from Milan, London, or remotely from approved countries, as agreed in the offer stage. Seniority Level Entry level Employment Type Full‑time Job Function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Software Development #J-18808-Ljbffr