
Senior Python Engineer (FastAPI / Python)
Overview
Photoroom launched in 2020 after being accepted into Y Combinator and has become the world's most popular AI photo editor over the past four years.
Job Description
Our goal is to create the technology allowing anyone create studio-level product images in minutes. With over 300 million downloads and processing 5+ billion images annually, we serve both individual creators and major enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through our B2C app and B2B API solutions.
Responsibilities
- - Design, build, and evolve our public API product
- - Ship features used by both self-serve developers and large enterprise customers
- - Ensure the API remains reliable, scalable, and easy to integrate
- - Own the API surface end-to-end: from design decisions to implementation, performance, and long-term maintainability
- - Iterate quickly based on real usage using data and user feedback
- - Work at the intersection of backend engineering and AI
- - Collaborate closely with product, machine learning, backend, and sales teams
Required Skills
- - Strong experience building backend systems in Python
- - Comfortable with FastAPI (or similar frameworks)
- - Experience with async patterns, concurrency, and production debugging
- - Owned or significantly contributed to the design of public-facing APIs
- - Care deeply about reliability, performance, and developer experience
- - Pragmatic and product-minded
- - Comfortable making decisions while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams
- - Experience in high-performing teams, ideally in fast-paced or startup environments
- - Clear communication skills
Benefits
- - Work from anywhere in Europe, with monthly trips to Paris (fully reimbursed)
- - Relocation support available (up to €10k)
- - Help with visa and housing
- - Company retreats, offsites, and regular team events
- - International team, English-speaking environment, with optional language lessons
- - Potential for higher salary for outstanding profiles and adjustments for cost of living
About the company
Photoroom is the world’s leading AI photo editor for businesses, helping sellers of all sizes create high-quality visuals that drive clicks, trust, and conversions. Built for commerce, Photoroom uses best-in-class AI to remove backgrounds with exceptional precision and generate realistic, on-brand images for product listings, ads, social content, logos, and more—without requiring design skills. From individual creators to enterprise teams, Photoroom reduces photo production costs by up to 90%, enables bulk editing and API-driven automation, and delivers proven results, including higher click-through rates and lower acquisition costs at scale.
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