Graduate software engineer in City of Westminster

Core Qualities

• Reasoning ability: Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles and structure your ideas sharply. You resist the influence of biases and identify the details that matter.
• Drive: You are extremely ambitious in everything you do, and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You feel deeply responsible for your work and hold yourself to a high-and rising-bar.
• Team spirit: You give generously without the expectation of receiving in return. You support the best idea, not just your own. You are reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English: You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

At Bending Spoons, we strive 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, functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency, creates value for shareholders at an extraordinary rate, and adheres to high ethical standards. To achieve this objective, we execute the following strategy: We acquire a digital business with untapped potential and make it as successful as we can by leveraging our platform—which comprises our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture. Then, we invest the proceeds into making our platform more powerful and into acquiring new businesses. Thus, our strategy combines an investor's attention to capital allocation with the hands-on approach of an operator. 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.

Responsibilities

• Master your toolkit: By working across diverse tech stacks, you will 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—you will show that true expertise isn’t about using the trendiest technologies, but about understanding their purpose to unleash their full potential.
• Build stuff that matters: Regardless of your seniority, you will enjoy plenty of autonomy and take full ownership of your work, from ideation to execution. You will have the unique opportunity to build software from the ground up and witness firsthand how your code evolves into a product used at scale.
• Simplify relentlessly: Is every component essential? Do we need this process? As a Bending Spoons engineer, your mission is to turn complexity into simplicity. Whether optimizing CI/CD pipelines, writing maintainable code, or crafting minimalist architectures, your drive to simplify will power scalable, future-proof solutions.

Bending Spoons is a demanding environment. We hold ourselves—and one another—at a high standard. While this tends to lead to extraordinary learning, achievement, and career growth, it also requires significant commitment. You will ramp up by working from our Milan office for the first few months, regardless of your long-term work location. It’s the best way to rapidly absorb our company culture and build trust with your new teammates. We will support you with generous travel and accommodation assistance. After that, you are welcome to work from our offices in Milan or London, or remotely from approved countries—depending on what we agree at the offer stage.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. You will work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We go to great lengths to hire individuals of outstanding potential—then our priority is to put them in the ideal position to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. If you have what it takes, you will soon be playing an essential role in major projects, too.
• Competitive pay and access to equity in the company. Typically, we offer individuals at the start of their career an annual salary of £85,797 in London and €66,065 elsewhere in Europe. For candidates assessed as possessing considerable relevant experience, the salary on offer tends to be between £112,189 and £250,512 in London, and €107,837 and €188,848 elsewhere in Europe. Compensation varies by location and expected impact, and grows rapidly as you gain experience and translate it into greater contributions.
• For individuals who demonstrate exceptional capability, we may offer compensation that extends beyond the usual ranges to reflect their higher expected impact. If you are offered a permanent contract, you will also be able to receive some of your pay in company equity at a discounted price, thus participating in the value creation we achieve together. If relocating to Italy, you may enjoy a 50% tax cut.
• All these benefits: Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited backing for learning and training, top-of-the-market health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location. We help each Spooner set up the conditions to do their best work.

Commitment & contract

• Permanent or fixed-term.
• Full-time.