Photoroom
Senior Software Engineer (Rust)
Photoroom
€90k - €120k
Remote; Paris; Barcelona; Berlin; London
Rust
WebAssembly
wgpu

Senior Software Engineer (Rust)

Overview

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

Job Description

We've raised Series B funding and reached 300+ million users worldwide, processing over 5 billion images annually and serving both small businesses and major enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through our mobile app, web platform, and API.

Responsibilities

  • - Contribute to the cross-platform libraries powering Photoroom on iOS, Android, and the Web
  • - Architect, develop, and deliver complex features used by in-house app developers
  • - Own your work from A to Z: from specification and implementation to integration on the target platform
  • - Work hand-in-hand with our product, web, and mobile teams to ensure a consistent Photoroom experience across all platforms
  • - Contribute to our live collaboration platform (like Figma or Google Docs)
  • - Work within a small multicultural team of ~120 passionate, friendly, and committed people

Required Skills

  • - Proven experience developing software with Rust
  • - Experience in C/C++ is also very much appreciated
  • - Understanding of at least one higher-level language (e.g. Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript)
  • - Experience delivering cross-platform client-side code that provides simple interfaces to handle complex tasks
  • - Strong sense of ownership — take initiative and are comfortable making both product and technical decisions
  • - Experience in a fast-growing start-up
  • - Fluent in English (French is not required)

Benefits

  • - Work flexibly from Germany, UK, Italy, France, Ireland, Portugal, or Spain, with monthly Paris office visits (fully reimbursed)
  • - Regular team gatherings, including in-person onboarding in Paris (1–2 weeks), yearly company offsite and team retreat, quarterly in-person meetings, and social events
  • - 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 (remote outside Paris)
  • - €1,000 annual learning and development budget for training, courses, books, and skill development
  • - Private health insurance
  • - Relocation support (up to €10,000) for those choosing to move to France
  • - Access to personalised mental health support
  • - Language lessons available for English and French

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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