Contract: Senior FastAPI Backend Engineer

✨ About us ✨

Photoroom was launched in 2020 after being accepted into Y Combinator and has become the world's most popular AI photo editor over the past four years. Our mission is clear: to create the best visuals for your commerce.

Photoroom puts the power of great images into more people's hands through our powerful and innovative features, from our best-in-the-world background remover to our generative AI model and tools: AI Images, AI Backgrounds and Shadows, AI Expand, and many more.

Processing over 5 billion images a year and downloaded over 200 million times, Photoroom is now the world's #1 AI photo-editing app, available across mobile, web, and via an API in over 180 countries.

We are at an exciting stage of our journey. Having successfully raised our Series B, we aim at sustaining 80% YoY growth.

Photoroom is a profitable, remote-friendly company headquartered in Paris with a global team of over 80 world-class deep learning, product, and marketing experts with backgrounds at the world's best companies. We are a diverse team of entrepreneurs building for entrepreneurs.

TL;DR

Who: We are looking for a FastAPI contractor/freelancer, expert in async Python to help us add new AI features in Photoroom.

Project: 6 months, renewable. You will build and enhance AI features, improve private API speed, and integrate multiple services to deliver high-quality images to our users

Day rate: €500—€800*

Location: remotely from anywhere in Europe

*We can go higher for outstanding profiles and adapt to the cost of living if it is higher than in Paris.

About the project

• You’ll collaborate with the AI Tools squad implement and improve AI features in the Photoroom app (Logo maker, AI Images and other features available on the homepage of the app)

• You’ll design and architect new features, chaining a mix of internal and external services to generate breathtaking images for our users

• You’ll monitor and scale the growing load on the FastAPI service, leveraging Datadog to find optimizations and bottlenecks or implementing smart caching of pipeline steps

About you

• You have experience designing and updating internal REST APIs, collaborating with other teams to gather their requirements and monitoring and improving the performance of existing services, ideally with Datadog.

• You have work experience with FastAPI or a similar async Python http framework (has to be async).

• You have experience with integration testing in a large Python project and wiring multiple external services or APIs together reliably

• You have worked in a fast-paced startup in the past

• Bonus: You have experience with image libraries in Python (Pillow, OpenCV)

• Bonus: you have worked with Server Side Events

If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still apply. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.

🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at the workplace. We believe both the company and its culture are strongest when composed of diverse experiences and backgrounds.

That's why:

- We have flexible working hours

- We trust people to work remotely

- We extended the length of the parental leave

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, family, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.