Graduate software engineer, US

About the Role

Bending Spoons is seeking a Graduate software engineer for their US operations. This role offers an opportunity to build software used by millions, amplify impact with AI, master a diverse toolkit, and simplify complex systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Build software that matters, taking ownership from idea to production and evolving systems to scale.
• Amplify impact with AI by integrating powerful AI tools into the development workflow.
• Master your toolkit by working across diverse stacks with end-to-end ownership, choosing appropriate technologies.
• Simplify relentlessly by questioning complexity and improving architectures, pipelines, and codebases.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Reasoning ability: Solve complex problems, think from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and identify important details.
• Drive: Be extremely ambitious, with matching initiative, effort, and tenacity. Feel deeply responsible for your work and hold yourself to a high standard.
• Team spirit: Give generously, support the best idea, help your team, and be reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Technologies mentioned include: monoliths, microservices, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Rust.

Qualifications

• No specific degree mentioned, but the title implies a graduate-level candidate.
• Talented, driven, and collaborative individual.

Compensation

• For individuals with limited experience: Annual salary typically $164,852 in the United States.
• For candidates with exceptional potential and highly unusual achievement: Compensation typically ranges $209,694 to $425,639.
• Compensation varies by location and expected impact. Higher-cost markets like New York City are positioned toward the upper end.
• Compensation can grow rapidly alongside impact and contributions.

Benefits

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams.
• Exceptional opportunity for growth.
• Flexible hours.
• Remote working.
• Unlimited backing for learning and training.
• Top-of-the-market health insurance.
• Rich relocation package.
• Generous parental support.
• Yearly retreat.
• Flexible start date and part-time options (can apply before graduation).

Commitment & Contract

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

Location

• Atlanta (GA), Boston (MA), Miami (FL), New York (NY), or fully remote from eligible countries.
• Initial onboarding requires spending most days in the Milan office for the first few months.