Photoroom
Senior Python Engineer (Public API)
Photoroom
€75k - €110k
Europe (Remote)
Python
FastAPI

Senior Python Engineer (Public API)

Overview

Founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's 2020 cohort, Photoroom is the leading visual solution for e-commerce.

Job Description

You will design, build, and evolve our public API product — the core interface through which developers access Photoroom's AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • - Design, build, and evolve the public API product
  • - Ship features used by 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
  • - Iterate quickly based on real usage and user feedback
  • - 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 about reliability, performance, and developer experience
  • - Pragmatic and product-minded
  • - Comfortable making decisions and collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • - Experience in high-performing teams, ideally in fast-paced or start-up environments

Benefits

  • - Work flexibly from selected countries with monthly Paris office visits
  • - Regular team gatherings and in-person onboarding in Paris
  • - 30 days annual leave plus local public holidays
  • - Competitive equity package with stock options/BSPCE
  • - €1,000 one-time home office grant or €400/month co-working space stipend
  • - €1,000 annual learning and development budget
  • - Private health insurance
  • - Relocation support for those moving to France
  • - Access to personalised mental health support
  • - Sports and cultural activities reimbursement

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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