2026 Grad Program, Software Engineering

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, where team members grow to their full potential, and that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. Our strategy is to acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and make them successful by leveraging our platform—our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and culture—and then invest the proceeds to strengthen the 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. Work across diverse tech stacks to choose the right tools for every challenge. From monolithic to microservices architectures, gRPC to REST APIs, Kubernetes to Docker, Python to Rust—the goal is to understand the purpose of technologies to unleash their full potential.
• Build stuff that matters. You’ll have autonomy and ownership from ideation to execution, building software from the ground up and watching your code evolve into a product used at scale.
• Simplify relentlessly. Turn complexity into simplicity by optimizing processes and writing maintainable code, and crafting minimalist architectures for scalable, future-proof solutions.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability. Solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and focus on details that matter.
• Drive. Ambition, initiative, effort, tenacity, and a high standard for yourself.
• Team spirit. Support the best idea, help your team, be reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. Read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Small, autonomous teams working alongside bright people.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We hire individuals of outstanding potential and place them to thrive, with opportunities to lead major projects.
• Competitive pay and equity. Salary ranges and equity opportunities vary by location and experience; relocation-related tax considerations may apply.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote work, learning support, health insurance, relocation assistance, parental support, and annual retreats.

Commitment & contract Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

Location Milan (Italy), London (UK) or remote.

The selection process If you pass screening, you’ll complete a few tests to assess your approach to unfamiliar problems, followed by interviews. The process may take several hours and the role may remain open for months.

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

Before you apply If you’ve applied before but didn’t receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again.

Bending Spoons is a demanding environment with high standards and significant commitment. We encourage candidates to start by working from our Milan office to ramp up quickly and absorb our culture, with travel and accommodation assistance. After onboarding, you may work from Milan or London offices or remotely from approved countries, depending on the offer stage.

If the role speaks to you and you’re excited to contribute, apply now—we’d love to meet you.