Graduate software engineer, US

About the Role

Bending Spoons is building one of the all-time great companies, focused on acquiring and operating digital businesses for the long term. We integrate AI deeply into our workflows, operate with the ambition of a startup, and foster a culture of minimal hierarchy and talent-dense, small teams. This role offers an opportunity for rapid learning, impact, and career progression.

Key Responsibilities

• Build software, taking ownership from idea to production, creating systems used by millions and evolving them into products at scale.
• Integrate AI tools into development workflows (design, implementation, testing, documentation) to increase speed and maintain high standards.
• Work across diverse stacks with end-to-end ownership, choosing appropriate technologies (e.g., monoliths, microservices, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Rust) for each challenge.
• Simplify architectures, pipelines, and codebases to build more scalable and maintainable systems.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Reasoning ability: Solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist bias, and identify important details.
• Drive: High ambition, initiative, effort, and tenacity. Deep sense of responsibility and high standards.
• Team spirit: Generous support, focus on the best idea, willingness to help others, reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Technologies mentioned: Python, Rust, Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, REST.

Qualifications

• This is a graduate software engineer role, implying candidates may have limited experience.
• The role offers flexible start dates and part-time options before graduation.

What We Offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams in small, autonomous, result-oriented groups.
• Exceptional opportunity for growth, with potential for significant impact and rapid career progression.
• Benefits: Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited learning and training support, top-of-the-market health insurance, relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat.
• Flexible start date and part-time options available.
• Competitive pay:
• For individuals with limited experience in the US: typically $164,852 annually.
• For candidates with exceptional potential: compensation typically ranges from $209,694 to $425,639 (varies by location and expected impact, with higher costs of living like NYC being at the upper end).
• Compensation grows with expertise and contributions.
• 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 few months require spending most days in the Milan office for ramp-up, with travel and accommodation assistance provided. Post-ramp-up, work can be from offices or remote.