Senior Software Engineer (FastAPI & Async Python)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Collaborate with the AI Tools squad to implement and improve AI features in the Photoroom app
• - Design and architect new features, chaining a mix of internal and external services to generate breathtaking images and videos for our users
• - Monitor and scale the growing load on the FastAPI service, leveraging Datadog to find optimisations and bottlenecks or implementing smart caching of pipeline steps

Required Skills

• - Experience designing and updating internal REST APIs operating at scale
• - Strong practical understanding of FastAPI or a similar async Python http framework
• - Ability to identify blocking calls in async handlers and offload CPU-bound work to a thread
• - Experience with integration testing in a large Python project
• - Worked in a fast-paced startup environment

Benefits

• - Work flexibly from one of our core countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, the US (NYC)
• - Regular team gatherings, including in-person onboarding in Paris, yearly company offsite, and team retreat
• - 30 days annual leave plus local public holidays
• - Competitive equity package with stock options/BSPCE
• - €1000 one-time home office grant OR €400 per month co-working space stipend
• - €1,000 annual learning and development budget
• - Private health insurance
• - Access to personalized mental health support
• - Sports and cultural activities reimbursement
• - Relocation support (up to 10k) available for those choosing to move to France