Photoroom
Technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineer(FastAPI&AsyncPython)
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“Senior Software Engineer (FastAPI & Async Python) at Photoroom. Skills: FastAPI, Async Python, AI features. Implement AI features. Improve AI features”
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting
Monthly Paris office visits
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years production Python, 5+ years FastAPI, Practical understanding of FastAPI, Experience designing REST APIs, Experience updating REST APIs, Experience gathering requirements, Experience monitoring performance, Experience improving performance, Experience with integration testing, Experience wiring external services, Experience wiring external APIs, Experience in fast-paced startup, Experience in high-autonomy environments
Nice to Have
Experience working with AI APIs
What You'll Do.
Implement AI features
Architect new features
Chain internal services
Chain external services
Implement smart caching
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with AI Tools squad
Full Job Description
ABOUT US Founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's 2020 cohort, Photoroom https://www.photoroom.com is the leading visual solution for e-commerce. We've raised Series B funding and reached 300+ million users worldwide, processing over 5 billion images annually and serving both small businesses and major enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through our mobile app, web platform, and API. We're a remote-friendly team of 100+ passionate builders giving e-commerce businesses superpowers to create visuals that help them grow, making the hardest parts of selling online disappear. We focus on craft, innovation, and collaboration, creating exceptional impact for e-commerce businesses worldwide. We are looking for a Senior FastAPI engineer 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 and videos to our users Compensation: 100k to 110k* + Stock-Options/BSPCE (Local currency) Location: Remote with with monthly Paris office visits (fully reimbursed). We can hire people already based in selected countries only: France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK, Poland. ABOUT THE ROLE - You'll collaborate with the AI Tools squad implement and improve AI features in the Photoroom app (Logo maker, AI Images, AI Videos, 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 and videos for our users. - You'll monitor and scale the growing load on the FastAPI service, leveraging Datadog to find optimisations and bottlenecks or implementing smart caching of pipeline steps. ABOUT YOU - You have experience designing and updating internal REST APIs operating at scale, collaborating with other teams to gather their requirements and monitoring and improving the performance of existing services, ideall
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