PhotoRoom is hiring a
Senior Django Backend Lead

Summary

Photoroom is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with leadership experience to join their team. The engineer will manage a team of 2, work on a high-traffic backend, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role offers competitive salary, stock options, remote work flexibility, relocation support, and other benefits.

Requirements

• You have actively participated in scaling a Django codebase to a similar throughput than ours or above
• You have 5+ years of experience in backend development, part of it is with Django and/or Django Rest Framework
• You have a track record of managing teams to an exceptionally high level of performance
• You have experience working with a relational database at scale, designing schemas, and running migrations with minimal downtime
• You have a hands-on experience with a PostgreSQL/MySQL database larger than 100 GB
• You have experience working on products requiring complex architectures
• You have experience with using design patterns and writing clean Python code
• You are always the most pragmatic person in the room. You favor speed of iteration over perfect, always leverage frameworks and libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel
• You have a strong sense of ownership. You take initiative and you are at ease to make product & technical decisions
• You are fluent in English (French is not required!)

Benefits

• 90k€-120k€* depending on experience + Stock-Options/BSPCE
• We are flexible: you can work from anywhere in Europe and come once a month to Paris (fully reimbursed), or come to the office more often
• We offer substantial support for relocation (up to 10k€), including finding an apartment in Paris and supporting you with the visa procedure
• We currently sponsor visas for individuals relocating to France or already based here. We are unable to sponsor visas for remote positions outside of France at this time
• Technology - new MacBook Pro, monitor, keyboard, etc
• Socials - Biannual company retreats, weekly Happy Hour & Game Time
• Photoroom is an international team and we work in English. We offer language lessons for those who need them (English & French)