Senior Web Engineer

About us

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 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 exceptional impact for entrepreneurs and businesses worldwide.

TL;DR

Build the web platform that powers 5 billion image transformations every year.

As a frontend engineer at Photoroom, you’ll join a 10-person web team where you'll architect scalable solutions for millions of users, integrate cutting-edge AI features, and directly shape the product that entrepreneurs worldwide rely on to create stunning visuals.

Compensation: 80k€-100k€* + Stock-Options/BSPCE

Location: Remote across Europe with monthly Paris office visits (fully reimbursed)

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

About the role 

Build the future of visual commerce at unprecedented scale.

Imagine writing code that directly impacts millions of entrepreneurs creating their next big product launch. You’ll work on real-time canvas manipulation, WebAssembly integration, AI-powered workflows, and performance optimization for massive visual datasets.

What makes this role extraordinary:

• AI at the core: You'll have the best AI tools at your disposal, and the ability to focus on problem solving while AI manages what is automatable, redundant, and repetitive. You’ll also build breakthrough features based on our proprietary genAI models. Not just consuming APIs, but building the interfaces that make complex AI feel effortless

• Technical depth: From sophisticated state management patterns with MobX to brand new features for our AI photo editor, you'll solve problems that push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser

• Product ownership: You’ll go beyond implementation, and partner closely with our ML and product teams to help shape product strategy and build features from planning to launch and beyond

• Real-life impact: Your work will empower millions of small businesses and creators to compete visually with major brands

Key projects you might tackle: Real-time collaborative editing, AI-powered background generation interfaces, complex image composition rendering, internal developer tools, design system architecture.

Your technical playground: React.js, TypeScript, MobX, Canvas API, WebAssembly, TailwindCSS, Turborepo, Vite, Playwright. Plus, you'll be encouraged to experiment with cutting-edge web technologies as they emerge.

About you

You're a senior (8 years+) engineer excited about complex, high-impact challenges.

You've built large-scale web applications that real people depend on. Think SaaS platforms serving 1M+ users monthly with teams of 10+ developers. You know how to maintain performance when every millisecond (and pixel!) count

What we're looking for:

• React mastery: Deep expertise in React and component-based architecture

• State management expertise: Strong understanding of MobX or the observer pattern, and how to use it to manage complex application state elegantly

• Proven scale experience: You've architected applications serving 1M+ users monthly

• Startup mindset: You favor fast iteration over perfection, can work autonomously, and understand that in a scaling startup, adaptability beats rigid process

• AI enthusiasm: You actively use AI tools to amplify your productivity

Bonus points for: WebAssembly experience, visual tools background, Canvas/WebGL knowledge, product photography interest.

If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still apply. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.

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 (monthly during probation period), 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 personalised 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.

Hiring Process

• Screening call with recruiting

• Technical interview with the team lead

• Home technical assignment, followed by a review with the web team

• Ways of working interviews 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're committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at work. We believe our company and culture are strongest when composed of diverse experiences and backgrounds.

That's also why we have flexible working hours, trust people to work remotely, and extended parental leave.

All qualified applicants 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.