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

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.

Hostaway is a SaaS scale-up that is transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.

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 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 (TypeScript SDKs, MCP servers, LLM orchestration).

Requirements

• 5+ years in backend engineering, ideally SaaS.

• Strong Python or PHP proficiency, ideally both.

• Experience with REST APIs and SaaS integrations.

• Familiarity with LLM/AI tools in the JS or Python ecosystem (LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, MCP servers).

• Comfortable working alongside Python-based AI services and bridging stacks.

• Bonus: experience with 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: 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. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one).

• 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 no