Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform - 100% Remote - EMEA
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What we know
Is it still open?
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How old is it?
Posted 37d ago
The date the source published, not the day we noticed it (2026-09-03). Last seen at its source just now.
We have tracked this listing since 5 Oct 2026 (5 days). The employer's own board has carried it every time we have read it, most recently just now.
Is it remote?
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Who may apply?
Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom
The description agrees: it names EMEA.
What the ad says
…remote role, but the candidate must be within EMEA to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers…
Pay not stated
Similar roles pay CZK 126.9k–168.8k/yr
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The listing
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.
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 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.
Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.
Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).
Thank you for your interest. 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.