Senior Backend Engineer (AI Platform)

• 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
• 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)
• 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

Benefits

• Company stock options provided to every role
• Career advancement opportunities
• Dynamic international culture

• Comfortable working alongside Python-based AI services and bridging stacks
• Familiarity with LLM/AI tools (LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, MCP servers)
• Nice to have: experience with PHP + Golang
• Strong Python proficiency
• 5+ years in backend engineering, ideally SaaS
• Strong collaboration skills - able to integrate work with platform and product teams
• Experience with REST APIs and SaaS integrations

• If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied