
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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