Hostaway
Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform - 100% Remote - EMEA
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Found 5h ago
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Timezone
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Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote job, Vienna, Austria, Zagreb, Prague, Tallinn, Helsinki, Paris, Berlin, Athens, Dublin"
- Job description states: "FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within EMEA to collaborate with their"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected
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About the role
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:
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.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
- ·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.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Hostaway, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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