2026 Grad Program, Software Engineering

Overview

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies that serves a huge number of customers, enables team members to reach their full potential, operates at high effectiveness, creates value for shareholders, and adheres to high ethical standards. Our strategy combines an investor’s capital allocation mindset with hands-on operational execution: we acquire digital businesses with untapped potential, leverage our platform (expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and culture), and reinvest to strengthen our platform and acquire new businesses. This is an exclusive opportunity for top students on track to graduate between December 2025 and December 2026 to learn, make an impact, and accelerate their career at an exceptionally high rate.

Responsibilities

Master your toolkit.

By working across diverse tech stacks, 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’ll demonstrate that true expertise is about understanding the purpose of the tools to unleash their potential.

Build stuff that matters.

You’ll have autonomy and ownership of your work from ideation to execution, building software from the ground up and seeing how your code becomes a product used at scale.

Simplify relentlessly.

Turn complexity into simplicity by optimizing processes and architectures, and crafting maintainable code and scalable solutions.

What we look for

Reasoning ability.

You can solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas clearly, resist biases, and focus on details that matter.

Drive.

You are ambitious, take initiative, and hold yourself to a high and rising bar.

Team spirit.

You support good ideas, help your team, and are reliable, honest, and transparent.

Proficiency in English.

You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer

Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams.

Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams with top peers.

An exceptional opportunity for growth.

We hire individuals of outstanding potential and place them to thrive; Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with opportunities to contribute to major projects.

Competitive pay and access to equity in the company.

Salary ranges vary by location and experience, with potential equity and relocation tax benefits in certain contexts.

All. These. Benefits.

Flexible hours, remote working, learning support, health insurance, relocation assistance, parental support, and annual retreats.

Commitment and contractPermanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

LocationMilan (Italy), London (UK) or remote.

The selection processIf you pass screening, you’ll take on tests to assess how you approach unfamiliar problems. If successful, you’ll be invited to a series of interviews. We set a high bar and won’t extend an offer until we’re convinced we’ve found the right candidate.

Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider for employment any applicant and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—let us know through this form.

Before you applyIf you’ve applied before but didn''t receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again. This is a demanding environment with high standards, which tends to lead to extraordinary learning and growth, and significant commitment. To help you ramp up quickly, we recommend spending your first months in the Milan office. We’ll support travel and accommodation. After that, you may work from Milan or London offices, or remotely from approved countries, depending on offer ..... full job details .....