About PDFShift
What is PDFShift?
PDFShift is a developer-focused API for converting HTML and websites into pixel-perfect PDFs, screenshots and banners. Verbatim from the homepage: "Our always-up-to-date API for developers automates your document conversion tasks - effortlessly." Founded in 2018, the company is based in Paris, France and is a bootstrapped operation led by founder Cyril Nicodème.
PDFShift publishes the headline scale stats prominently: 63+ million conversions made, 37,500+ developers using the service, an average conversion time of 1.5 seconds and 99.99% uptime. The platform serves teams converting invoices, reports and customer data into PDFs from raw HTML, plus alternative use-cases like generating Open Graph banner images for blog posts and producing screenshots of any website via a single API call. SDKs are published for Python, NodeJS, PHP, Ruby, C# and cURL. The service is HIPAA-compliant with a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) available for healthcare customers — verbatim: "We don't store your documents (unless specifically requested in the API), so we can ensure the privacy of your data."
Beyond raw HTML-to-PDF conversion, PDFShift offers a template engine for storing reusable templates, integrations targeted at Wordpress / Next / Nuxt blog stacks, automatic banner-image generation, webhook-driven async conversion and a parallel conversion system for generating many documents from a single request. Customer testimonials on the homepage from Parker M., Greg P. and Donna P. (all via Capterra) cite quick onboarding, responsive support and reliable bulk-invoice regeneration as the main draws.
Where will I work?
PDFShift is fully remote within Europe. The DB sidebar verbatim: "We work 100% remotely within Europe." The registered HQ is Paris, Île-de-France, France. No physical office is publicised on the website.
What is the PDFShift team like?
Based on Cyril Nicodème's public interviews with Starter Story, GetLatka and Superframeworks, PDFShift operates as a small bootstrapped team — Crunchbase and GetLatka both record the company at 1–10 employees with 2 total team members. There is no /team or /about page on the current site, so first-party headcount detail isn't published. The product, scale stats and feature set make clear that the team prioritises a developer-experience-focused, low-overhead engineering model with significant focus on reliability (99.99% uptime).
Work-Life Balance
The DB-recorded schedule policy is a 4-day, 32-hour work week at 100% salary, with 18 days vacation plus public holidays as a baseline. However, no current primary source on pdfshift.io references this 4-day schedule — the company has no careers or team page. The schedule_type field has been retained as a protected DB value but is flagged for review: language is consistent with a self-reported directory submission from a 2-person bootstrapped founder-led operation, not an enforced HR policy.
Perks and Benefits
PDFShift does not publish an employee benefits page or careers section. As a small bootstrapped European operation, we've retained no benefit bullets in the absence of any first-party source.