Senior Django Backend Lead [Remote in Europe]

<p><strong>✨ About us ✨</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.photoroom.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Photoroom</u></a> was launched in 2020 after getting accepted into Y Combinator and, over the past 4 years, has become the world's most popular AI photo editor. <strong>Our mission is clear: to elevate businesses through amazing photography.</strong></p><p>Photoroom puts the power of great images into more people's hands through our powerful and innovative features, from our best-in-class background remover to our generative AI model and tools: AI Images, AI Backgrounds and Shadows, AI Expand, and many more.</p><p>Processing over 5 billion images a year and downloaded over 150 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.</p><p>We are at an exciting stage of our journey, having successfully raised our Series B and looking to scale to $100M ARR in 2024.</p><p>Photoroom is a profitable, remote-friendly company headquartered in Paris with a global team of over 50 world-class deep learning, product, and marketing experts with backgrounds at the world's leading companies. We are a diverse team of entrepreneurs building for entrepreneurs.</p><p></p><p><strong>✨ About us ✨</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.photoroom.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Photoroom</a> was launched in 2020 after getting accepted into Y Combinator and, over the past 4 years, has become the world's most popular AI photo editor. <strong>Our mission is clear: to elevate businesses through amazing photography.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>Photoroom puts the power of great images into more people's hands through our powerful and innovative features, from our best-in-class background remover to our generative AI model and tools: AI Images, AI Backgrounds and Shadows, AI Expand, and many more.</p><p><br/></p><p>Processing over 5 billion images a year and downloaded over 150 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.</p><p><br/></p><p>We are at an exciting stage of our journey, having successfully raised our Series B and looking to scale to $100M ARR in 2024.</p><p><br/></p><p>Photoroom is a profitable, remote-friendly company headquartered in Paris with a global team of over 50 world-class deep learning, product, and marketing experts with backgrounds at the world's leading companies. We are a diverse team of entrepreneurs building for entrepreneurs.</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>TL;DR</strong></p><p>🤓 PhotoRoom is seeking a talented Backend Engineer (she/her, he/him, they/them) with technical and people leadership skills to join our team. Leading a team of 2 people, you will work on a backend millions of users rely on: up to 300 QPS, 900 GB PostgreSQL DB, and 1000s of TB of content. Working hand in hand with the mobile &amp; web team, your impact will be tremendous. It is the opportunity to work on the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matthieurouif_photoroom-is-the-1-genai-photo-product-activity-7107790573272453120-XxB3/?trk=public_profile_like_view" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">number one GenAI image editor </a>and an app downloaded more than 150+ million times, solve complex backend challenges, and make a decisive difference to our users.</p><p>💰90k€-140k€* depending on experience + Stock-Options/BSPCE</p><p>🇪🇺 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.</p><p>✈️ We offer substantial support for relocation (up to 10k€), including finding an apartment in Paris and supporting you with the visa procedure.</p><p>🛂 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.</p><p>💻 Technology - new MacBook Pro, monitor, keyboard, etc.</p><p>🏖️ Socials - Biannual company retreats, weekly Happy Hour &amp; Game Time</p><p>🇬🇧 Photoroom is an international team and we work in English. We offer language lessons for those who need them (English &amp; French).</p><p><em>*We can go higher for outstanding profiles and adapt to the cost of living if it is higher than in Paris.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>✨ About the role ✨</strong></p><p></p><ul><li><p>You will provide technical leadership as well as manage the team: one senior full time + one senior part time (and growing)</p></li><li><p>You will have <strong>ownership</strong> of the backend: used by millions of users to sync their content across apps and share it across devices.</p></li><li><p>You provide <strong>technical leadership</strong> and guidance to the backend development team, defining <strong>technical vision</strong> and roadmap for the backend infrastructure.</p></li><li><p>You will own your work from A to Z: it goes from working on the <strong>