Senior Backend + AI Systems (Strategy Cues)

If you want to build “just another backend,” this isn’t it.

The concept and shell is in place - we need a team that takes it to the next level and make it GTM ready.

We’re building an AI‑driven intelligence engine for the global short‑term rental industry — something that thinks, analyzes, and reasons across hundreds of properties per operator. If that excites you, keep reading.

What you’ll actually own (high‑stakes, high‑impact):

Architect async Python systems (FastAPI + background workers) built for high‑concurrency scraping, API ingestion, and nonstop AI processing.
Build authenticated ingestion pipelines that merge scraping (Playwright) + APIs into a fault‑tolerant, auto‑recovering data engine.
Model and normalize multi‑source OTA data into clean canonical schemas with versioned snapshots and multi‑tenant isolation (MongoDB).
Design AI reasoning pipelines, not chatbots — multi‑stage LLM + vision workflows that produce structured, deterministic JSON and operator‑ready insights.
Run image understanding, semantic matching, comparative analytics, and review sentiment clustering at scale using OpenAI’s latest text + vision models.
Orchestrate complex background systems with cron-driven pipelines, idempotent jobs, progress tracking, and event-driven enrichment queues.
Deploy cloud-native microservices (Azure Container Apps) that autoscale under burst loads from scraping, AI inference, and analytics generation.
Transform high-dimensional OTA + market data using pandas/NumPy into metrics, forecasts, benchmarks, and export-ready analytics.