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

Hostaway; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Hostaway is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer on the AI Team for fully remote work. You will design AI-enabled backend services and APIs, turning AI insights into customer-facing features within our SaaS platform.

Work closely with product and platform teams to ensure smooth AI integration, scalability, and robust observability across deployments. This role emphasizes collaboration and delivering AI-powered customer value.

Qualifications

• Experience designing AI-enhanced backend systems.
• Proficient in Python and API design.
• Strong background in scalable backend services and observability.

Responsibilities

• 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).

Skills

Python

APIs

Backend

SaaS

Observability

Tools

Python SDKs

LLM orchestration

Job description

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within EMEA 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 EMEA.

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:

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Design and build services that integrate AI into customer-facing features.

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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).