Data Engineer

About

At Bending Spoons, we're striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers. A company where team members grow to their full potential. A company that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. A company that creates value for shareowners at an extraordinary rate. And a company that does so while adhering to high ethical standards.

In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, not to sell on, but to own and operate for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate. That's our promise to such a candidate.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve data pipelines.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of data systems—ensuring data is accurate, reliable, and efficiently processed across diverse tech stacks.
• Ensure data correctness and scalability by working closely with software engineers to validate data, define metrics, and improve the robustness of reporting and analytics systems.
• Develop internal data products and tooling such as reporting engines and forecasting tools used by product teams across the company.
• Support platform-wide decision-making by partnering with multiple teams to provide the analytical and modeling backbone for business planning and performance tracking.
• Leverage AI to accelerate work and uncover insights by using AI tools to move faster, surface ideas and opportunities, and study competing products and trends.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability: solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and identify important details.
• Drive: extremely ambitious with initiative, effort, tenacity, and a strong sense of responsibility.
• Team spirit: generous, supportive of the best ideas, reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English: read, write, and speak proficiently.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams working in small, autonomous groups.
• Exceptional growth opportunities with leadership roles early in career.
• Competitive pay and access to equity with salary ranges depending on location and experience.
• Benefits including flexible hours, remote working, unlimited learning and training support, top-of-the-market health insurance, relocation package, generous parental support, and yearly retreats.

Commitment & contract

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

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries.

The selection process

• Prioritize verifiable signals of excellence regardless of seniority.
• Challenging tests may be required.
• High standards maintained; positions may remain open for months.
• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

Before you apply

• Recommended to spend first months working from Milan office to absorb culture and build trust.
• Support provided for travel and accommodation.
• After initial period, work from Milan, London, or approved remote countries as agreed.