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

Hostaway; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Remote policy

Yearly Team Offsite

Equity

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Hostaway is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the AI Team, focused on integrating AI into our SaaS platform. You will design Python-based APIs, services, and UIs with frontend colleagues to deliver AI-powered features for property managers and guests.

You’ll collaborate with product and platform teams to embed AI components across workflows, ensuring scalable, observable, and robust solutions in a fully remote, Europe- or MENA-based environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services that integrate AI into customer-facing features.
• Develop scalable APIs and backend services connecting AI outputs to SaaS functionality.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to create 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.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

SaaS integrations

LLM/AI tools

Team collaboration

Tools

LangChain

Vercel AI SDK

MCP servers

PHP

Golang

Job description

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within Europe OR MENA to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within Europe OR MENA.

Trusted by 20,000+ property managers worldwide, Hostaway is an industry leading, AI-powered vacation rental management platform designed for professional short-term rental operators. Hostaway brings everything together for greater efficiency and faster growth.

Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental Property Management System unicorn . Join us at our most exciting stage yet! Learn more about our recent valuation and story here.

About the role

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.

You’ll work closely with product and platform teams to ensure AI components slot seamlessly into our SaaS ecosystem - from automation workflows to customer insights dashboards.

What you’ll do:

• 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).

• 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.

• Nice to have: experience with PHP + Golang

• Strong collaboration skills - able to integrate work with platform and product teams.

What success looks like:

• AI-powered features are seamlessly embedded into Hostaway’s SaaS product.

• Customer workflows feel smarter, faster, and more personalized thanks to your integrations.

• AI services are stable, observable, and easy to maintain.

• You become a go-to engineer for AI product integration across Hostaway.

What we offer

• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.

• 100% Remote: We have no physical offices. Work from your home office, a co-working space, or a dining room table anywhere in your country of residence. Visiting family or travelling? You can work from another country for a temporary stay with your lead’s approval. All of this is set out in our Remote Working Policy.

• Yearly Team Offsite: Once a year, every department gets together in person to connect, build closer bonds, sharpen our strategy, and improve how we work together; often exploring a new location every year!

• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.

• 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 residence.

• 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).