Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform

About the Position

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform - 100% Remote - EMEA

Hostaway, an industry-leading AI-powered vacation rental management platform, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our AI Team. This is a fully remote role, but the candidate must be within EMEA to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers.

Trusted by 20,000+ property managers worldwide, Hostaway brings everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth. Join us at our most exciting stage yet!

Responsibilities

As a Senior Backend Engineer on our AI Team, you’ll focus on integrating AI services into Hostaway’s product. You’ll turn raw data and models into polished, customer-facing features by working in Python, building APIs, services, and UIs together with the Frontend engineers that make AI useful for property managers and guests.

• Design and build services that integrate AI into customer-facing features.
• Develop performant and scalable APIs and backend services that connect AI outputs to SaaS functionality.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to create intuitive AI-driven user experiences.
• Partner with platform and integration teams to embed AI into existing systems and workflows.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and error handling for AI services in production.
• Contribute to evolving our AI integration stack (Python SDKs, MCP servers, LLM orchestration).

Requirements

• 5+ years in backend engineering, ideally SaaS.
• Strong Python proficiency.
• Experience with REST APIs and SaaS integrations.
• Familiarity with LLM/AI tools (LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, MCP servers).
• Comfortable working alongside Python-based AI services and bridging stacks.
• Strong collaboration skills - able to integrate work with platform and product teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with PHP + Golang.

We Offer

• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
• 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence-be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours.
• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company.
• Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.
• Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.
• Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.
• Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.
• Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).

About the Company

Hostaway is an industry-leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators. We bring everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth. Join us at our most exciting stage yet!