engineering
Posted 3 weeks agoSenior Python Engineer (Public API & FastAPI)
at Photoroom
Paris, FranceRemote
Requirements
- About the Role - You will design, build, and evolve our public API product — the core interface through which developers access Photoroom's AI capabilities. - Public API experience is a must-have.
- - You will work at the intersection of backend engineering and AI, abstracting complex image models into simple, elegant developer-facing interfaces.
- - You will collaborate closely with product, machine learning, backend, and sales teams to ensure the API delivers real value to users.
- experience building backend systems in Python, with a focus on APIs used by external consumers (not just internal services).
- - You are comfortable with FastAPI (or similar frameworks) and have worked with async patterns, concurrency, and production debugging.
- Experience with API deployment patterns (Docker, uvicorn/gunicorn, health checks, etc.) -
- Experience with image processing libraries (Pillow, pyvips…) -
- Experience integrating AI/image models behind APIs (latency, inference, abstraction) -
- Experience with Node.js (current API is being migrated) -
- Experience building integrations or developer-facing tooling If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still apply.
Benefits
- Senior Python Engineer – Public API Compensation: Competitive + Stock-Options/BSPCE (local currency) Location: Remote with monthly Paris office visits (fully reimbursed).
- - You communicate clearly and can translate technical decisions into something others can understand. Bonus Points -
- 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, giving you ownership in our growing company - €1,000 one-time home office grant OR €400/month
- Reference check and offer DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING We're committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at work.
- That's also why we have flexible working hours, trust people to work remotely, and extended parental leave.