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We focus on craft, innovation, and collaboration to create exceptional impact for e-commerce businesses worldwide.\nRole Summary\nWe're looking for a Senior backend engineer to own the pricing system for all apps at Photoroom. You'll help deliver Product Growth initiatives and pricing architecture while collaborating closely with other engineers (both frontend and backend) and product owners.\nCompensation: 95k to 105k + Stock-Options/BSPCE\nLocation: Paris (hybrid)\nAbout the Role\nYou will own your work from A to Z: it goes from working on the architecture & coding features to monitoring releases' performance (we use Datadog for monitoring).\n\nYou will own the delivery and the architecture of the pricing system used by all our products (iOS, Android, Web, API) and millions of users.\n\nYou will get fast feedback from our users and will iterate quickly (we update the backend multiple times a week). 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