Senior Backend Engineer — AI Platform (Remote, Europe/MENA)

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

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.