Contract FastAPI Engineer

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 strong Python engineer to take ownership of the public API that powers how developers integrate Photoroom into their products. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of developer experience and applied AI, where you’ll shape the interface used by both self-serve users and large enterprise customers.

💰 Day rate: Negotiable
🇪🇺 Duration: 3/6 months

✨ ABOUT THE ROLE ✨

- You will design, build, and evolve our public API product — the core interface through which developers access Photoroom’s AI capabilities.

- You will ship features used by both self-serve developers and large enterprise customers, ensuring the API remains reliable, scalable, and easy to integrate.

- You will own the API surface end-to-end: from design decisions (naming, versioning, structure) to implementation, performance, and long-term maintainability.

- You will iterate quickly based on real usage — we ship multiple times per week — using data and user feedback to prioritise what matters most.

- You will work at the intersection of backend engineering and AI, abstracting complex image models into simple, elegant developer-facing interfaces.

- You will collaborate closely with product, machine learning, backend, and sales teams to ensure the API delivers r...