Graduate software engineer, US

About the Role

Bending Spoons is seeking a Graduate Software Engineer in the US. The company focuses on acquiring and improving digital businesses for long-term ownership and operation, transforming them to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. The environment is characterized by minimal hierarchy, small, talent-dense teams, and integrating AI deeply into workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Build software, taking ownership from idea to production, creating systems used by millions and evolving them into products at scale.
• Amplify impact with AI, integrating powerful AI tools directly into development workflows for design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
• Master a toolkit by working across diverse stacks with end-to-end ownership, choosing the right technologies for each challenge, including monoliths, microservices, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, and Rust.
• Simplify relentlessly by questioning complexity, improving architectures, pipelines, and codebases to build systems that are simpler, more scalable, and easier to maintain.

What We Look For

• Reasoning ability: Solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and identify and handle important details.
• Drive: Extreme ambition matched with initiative, effort, and tenacity. Deep sense of responsibility and holding oneself to a high and rising bar.
• Team spirit: Generous contribution without expectation of return, supporting the best idea, willingness to help the team, reliability, honesty, and transparency.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• AI integration into development workflow.
• Experience with diverse stacks including:
• Architectural patterns: Monoliths, microservices.
• Communication protocols: gRPC, REST.
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Programming languages: Python, Rust.

Qualifications

• The role is suitable for individuals with limited experience, including those not yet graduated.
• The company prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence regardless of seniority.

Benefits

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams.
• Exceptional opportunity for growth and career progression.
• Flexible hours.
• Remote working options.
• Unlimited backing for learning and training.
• Top-of-the-market health insurance.
• Rich relocation package.
• Generous parental support.
• Yearly retreat to a stunning location.
• Flexible start date and part-time options, with the possibility to transition to full-time.
• Competitive pay:
• For individuals with limited experience: $164,852 annually in the United States.
• For candidates with exceptional potential and highly unusual achievement: $209,694 to $425,639.
• Compensation varies by location and expected impact; higher-cost markets like New York City typically position offers toward the upper end.

Commitment & Contract

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

Location

• Atlanta (GA), Boston (MA), Miami (FL), New York (NY), or fully remote from eligible countries.

Additional Information

• All applications must go through the careers page.
• The selection process involves challenging tests that may take several hours and involve unfamiliar problems.
• The company expects candidates to spend most days in their Milan office during the first few months for onboarding, with travel and accommodation assistance provided.
• Reasonable accommodations are provided for individuals with disabilities.
• Applicants who previously applied but did not receive an offer are recommended to wait at least one year before reapplying.