Graduate software engineer, US

About the Role

Bending Spoons is seeking a Graduate Software Engineer to build software that matters. This role offers an opportunity to take ownership from idea to production, creating systems used by millions and evolving them into products at scale. The position integrates AI deeply into the development workflow, from design to testing and documentation. You will work across diverse stacks, applying technologies thoughtfully with end-to-end ownership, focusing on simplification, scalability, and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Build software that matters, taking real ownership from idea to production.
• Create systems used by millions and evolve them into products at scale.
• Amplify impact with AI, integrating powerful AI tools into the development workflow.
• Master your toolkit, working across diverse stacks with end-to-end ownership.
• Choose the right technologies for each challenge, from monoliths to microservices, gRPC to REST, Kubernetes to Docker, Python to Rust.
• Simplify relentlessly, questioning complexity and improving architectures, pipelines, and codebases.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Reasoning ability: Solve complex problems, think from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist bias, and identify and handle crucial details.
• Drive: Be extremely ambitious, show initiative, effort, and tenacity, feel deeply responsible for work, and hold yourself to a high, rising bar.
• 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

• Ability to start part-time and transition to full-time as degree completion nears.
• Willingness to spend most days in the Milan office during the first few months for onboarding.
• Openness to flexible start dates.

Benefits & Perks

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams in small, result-oriented, autonomous groups.
• Exceptional opportunity for growth and career progression.
• Flexible hours.
• Remote working.
• Unlimited backing for learning and training.
• Top-of-the-market health insurance.
• Rich relocation package.
• Generous parental support.
• Yearly retreat to a stunning location.
• Competitive pay.
• Flexible start date and part-time options available before graduation.

Compensation

• For individuals with limited experience, annual salary typically offered is $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.
• Offers are generally positioned toward the upper end of the range in higher-cost markets like New York City.
• Compensation can grow rapidly alongside expertise and contributions.

Location

• Atlanta (GA), Boston (MA), Miami (FL), New York (NY).

Contract Type

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