202510 Senior Django Backend Engineer

Job Overview

Job Title:

202510 Senior Django Backend Engineer

Company Name:

Photoroom

Location:

Paris | Remote

Department:

General

Description:

Photoroom 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 goal is to create the technology allowing anyone to create studio-level product images in minutes.

With over 300 million downloads and processing 5+ billion images annually, we serve both individual creators and major enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through our B2C app and B2B API solutions.

We're a profitable, remote-friendly company that has raised Series B funding and aims for 40% year-over-year growth. Our team of 100+ passionate builders focuses on craft, innovation, and collaboration, creating an exceptional impact for entrepreneurs and businesses worldwide.

Role Summary

We're looking for a Senior Django Backend Engineer to help deliver exciting new features for our users and improve the quality of existing ones while collaborating closely with other engineers (both frontend and backend) and product owners.

Compensation: 100k £/€ + Stock-Options/BSPCE Location: Remote across Europe with monthly Paris office visits (fully reimbursed)

Responsibilities

• Own your work from A to Z, including architecture, coding features, and monitoring releases' performance (we use Datadog for monitoring).
• Receive fast feedback from users and iterate quickly (we update the backend multiple times a week). Make decisions based on product usage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., product, front-end) to actively help design and deliver seamless user experiences.
• Optimize existing endpoints, driving down latency and ensuring scalability for increased usage.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend development with Django and Django Rest Framework.
• Experience working with a relational database at scale, designing schemas, optimizing Django queries, and running migrations with minimal downtime.
• Hands-on experience with a PostgreSQL/MySQL database larger than 100 GB.
• Experience designing endpoints in collaboration with frontend engineers, delivering both Open API and developer manuals/supporting documentation.
• Always maintain a pragmatic approach, favoring speed of iteration over perfection and leveraging frameworks and libraries.
• Strong sense of ownership; take initiative and make product and technical decisions.
• Fluent in English (French is not required!).

Benefits

• Work flexibly from anywhere in Europe within a 3-hour flight from Paris (HQ).
• **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 like winter party and hackathons.
• 30 days annual leave plus local public holidays.
• Competitive equity package with stock options/BSPCE, giving you ownership in our growing company.
• €1000 one-time home office grant OR €400 per month co-working space stipend.
• €1, 000 annual learning and development budget for training, courses, books, and skill development.
• Private health insurance.
• **Access to personalized 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.
• Relocation support (up to 10k) available for those choosing to move to France, including apartment finding and visa assistance.

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

About the Company

Photoroom is a vibrant and innovative tech company committed to enhancing the capabilities of individuals and businesses through our powerful AI tools. We celebrate diversity and aim to create an inclusive environment reflecting various backgrounds and experiences. Our forward-thinking culture encourages flexible working hours and remote opportunities, promoting a healthy work-life balance for all employees.