Senior FastAPI Engineer (asyncio heavy)

✨ 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

🤓 We are looking for a FastAPI engineer expert in async Python to help us add new AI features in Photoroom. You will use asyncio heavily to build and enhance AI features, improve private API speed, and integrate multiple services to deliver high-quality images to our users

🇪🇺 Flexible location: you can work remotely from anywhere in Europe with monthly visits to Paris (fully reimbursed), or come to the office more often

✈️ If needed, relocation support (up to 10k€), including finding an apartment in Paris and supporting you with the visa procedure. Notice: We are currently unable to sponsor visas for remote positions outside of France.

🏖️ Socials - Biannual company retreats, monthly gatherings

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

About the role

• 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 …