Senior API Engineer (Node.js)

✨ 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 are looking to scale to $150M ARR in 2025.

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

🤓 Photoroom is looking for a seasoned engineer who has experience building easy-to-use public web APIs. You will work on an API used by dozens of companies, leveraging Photoroom's technology to power their apps. Our Image Editing API enables anyone to easily create high-quality images with a variety of AI-powered features including background removal, AI shadows, AI backgrounds…

💰70k€-110k€* depending on experience + Stock-Options/BSPCE

💻 Technology - new MacBook Pro, monitor, keyboard, etc.

🏖️ Socials - Biannual company retreats, weekly Happy Hour & Game Time

🇬🇧 Photoroom is an international team, and we work in English. We offer language lessons for those who need them (English & French).

✨ About the role ✨

• You will be responsible for the design and development of our public API product (photoroom.com/api/) , used by dozens of companies to integrate Photoroom's technology in their products (Doordash, Warner Bros, etc...). Our Image Editing API enables anyone to easily create high-quality images with a variety of AI-powered features including background removal, AI shadows, AI backgrounds…

• You will collaborate with the product team to prioritize and implement the most impactful features for the API. This includes adding new features, ensuring robustness of existing ones, minimizing downtime, and ensuring our documentation is top-notch.

• You will get fast feedback from API users and will iterate quickly (we update the API several times a week). You will follow the usage of the API and make decisions based on that.

• You will work within a small multicultural team composed of ~80 passionate, friendly & committed folks.

✨ You might thrive in this role if: ✨

• You have 3+ years of experience in designing and implementing APIs used by external partners (not just internal APIs).

• You have a thorough experience with the OpenAPI standard.

• You have experience with Node.js and TypeScript.

• You are always the most pragmatic person in the room. You favor speed of iteration over perfection, always leveraging frameworks and libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel.

• You have a strong sense of ownership and collaboration. You take initiative and are at ease making product & technical decisions while working effectively with the product team.

• You have a deep understanding of API reliability and are committed to maintaining high standards of uptime, performance, and consistency.

• You have worked as part of a talented team and have experience in a fast-growing startup.

• Bonus point if you have worked on image editing pipelines.

• Bonus point if you have created integrations for an API (no-code, custom integrations).

• You are fluent in English (French is not required!).

✨ Hiring Process ✨

• Screening call

• Home technical assignment, followed by a review with the team (can be compensated and does not take more than 3 hours)

• Culture fit interview and meet the team!

• Reference check & Offer

Support - If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best - please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

🌈 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.