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Senior Backend Engineer, AI Integrations
Full time|Remote|EMEA
Senior Backend Engineer, AI Integrations
Full time | Remote | EMEA
About Company
Hostaway is a SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry with innovative integrations and partnerships with major platforms like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking. The company provides a powerful property management system and API ecosystem used globally by property managers to streamline operations and improve performance. Hostaway values a remote-first culture and offers global collaboration within its engineering teams.
Job Description
Hostaway is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer focused on integrating AI services into its SaaS product. The role involves designing and building scalable backend services and APIs that connect AI outputs to customer-facing features, partnering with product and platform teams to embed AI into existing workflows and ensure seamless integration across the ecosystem. This role is fully remote but requires the candidate to be located within the EMEA region.
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 the evolution of the AI integration stack (TypeScript SDKs, MCP servers, and LLM orchestration).
Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in SaaS.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js or Python.
- Experience with REST APIs and SaaS integrations.
- Familiarity with LLM/AI tools in the JS or Python ecosystem (e.g., LangChain, Vercel AI SDK, MCP servers).
- Comfort working alongside Python-based AI services and bridging stacks.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
Skills
Backend EngineeringTypeScriptNode.jsPythonREST APIsAI/ML IntegrationSaaS IntegrationObservabilityLLM Tools