Senior Web Engineer, Frontend [Europe, remote]

Photoroom; London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI photo editing company is seeking a senior frontend engineer to build scalable solutions for millions of users. The role emphasizes integrating advanced AI features and working on real-time image manipulation. Candidates should have extensive experience in React, architecture for high-demand applications, and a passion for leveraging AI tools. This position offers remote work opportunities across Europe and competitive compensation.

Benefits

Stock options

Annual company retreats

Quarterly gatherings

Qualifications

• Senior (8 years+) engineer excited about complex, high-impact challenges.
• Experience building large-scale web applications serving 1M+ users monthly.
• Ability to maintain performance when every millisecond (and pixel) counts.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable solutions for millions of users.
• Integrate cutting-edge AI features directly into the product.
• Work on real-time canvas manipulation and performance optimization.

Skills

React mastery

State management expertise

Proven scale experience

Startup mindset

AI enthusiasm

Tools

React.js

TypeScript

MobX

WebAssembly

TailwindCSS

Job description

About us

Photoroom was 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 mission is to create the best visuals for your commerce.

Photoroom puts the power of great images into more people's hands through our powerful and innovative features, from our best-in-the-world background remover to our generative AI model and tools: AI Images, AI Backgrounds and Shadows, AI Expand, and many more.

Processing over 5 billion images a year and downloaded over 200 million times, Photoroom is now the world\'s #1 AI photo-editing app, available across mobile, web, and via an API in over 180 countries.

Photoroom is a profitable, remote-friendly company headquartered in Paris with a global team of over 100 world-class deep learning, product, and marketing experts with backgrounds at the world\'s best companies. We are a diverse team of entrepreneurs building for entrepreneurs.

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.

You\'ll work autonomously across squads, tackling challenges from real-time image manipulation to AI-powered generative tools.

• 80k€-100k€* + Stock-Options/BSPCE
• Fully remote: you can work from anywhere in Europe within a 3-hour flight from Paris (HQ) and come to our office once per quarter (fully reimbursed).
• We are currently unable to sponsor visas outside of France.
• Socials - Annual company retreats, quarterly gatherings, GameTime

*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. 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) counts.

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.

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

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.