Python Engineer

Location: Remote with monthly Paris office visits (fully reimbursed). We can hire people already based in selected countries only: France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK

*We can go higher for outstanding profiles and adjust for the cost of living where needed. 

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 ship features used by both self-serve developers and large enterprise customers, ensuring the API remains reliable, scalable, and easy to integrate.

• You will own the API surface end-to-end: from design decisions (naming, versioning, structure) to implementation, performance, and long-term maintainability.

• You will iterate quickly based on real usage — we ship multiple times per week — using data and user feedback to prioritise what matters most.

• 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.

You will join a small, senior team with high ownership and direct product impact from day one.

About You

• You have strong 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.

• You have owned or significantly contributed to the design of public-facing APIs — thinking about versioning, consistency, and long-term evolution.

• You care deeply about reliability, performance, and developer experience.

• You are pragmatic and product-minded — you prioritise impact and speed, and avoid over-engineering.

• You take ownership and are comfortable making decisions, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.

• You have worked in high-performing teams, ideally in fast-paced or start-up environments.

• You communicate clearly and can translate technical decisions into something others can understand.

Bonus Points

• 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

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 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, including apartment finding and visa assistance

• Access to personalised mental health support, including 1:1 sessions with therapists or coaches, self-care tools, and well-being resources via MokaCare

• Sports and cultural activities reimbursement

Note: Visa sponsorship and relocation support are only available for positions based in France. We cannot sponsor visas for remote positions outside of France.