Back-end Engineer Integration and AI (PHP/Python)

Nextcloud; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open source culture

Competitive salary

Work-life balance

Personal growth

Job summary

Nextcloud is seeking engineers with PHP back-end and AI integrations experience to join the integrations team. You’ll work with the engineering team to add features and improvements to the server back-end, including new authentication or storage mechanisms, and integrate AI into Nextcloud with LLMs, speech-to-text, and image processing services.

You should have open source experience, be comfortable with Git/GitHub, and enjoy collaborative, project-based development in a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Technical experience with PHP back-end development.
• Experience with Python for AI/ML integrations.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and Docker.
• Open source experience and Git/GitHub proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Feature development for the server back-end.
• Integration of AI services and models.
• Database design and systems design.
• Quality assurance and project-based development.
• Collaborate with multiple teams on defined timeframes.

Skills

PHP

Python

JavaScript

Frontend frameworks

Open source

Tools

Docker

Git/GitHub

REST APIs

Job description

We’re looking for engineers with experience in PHP/ back-end development and AI integrations to join our integrations team! You would work with the engineering team to bring new features and improvements to the server back-end like new authentication or storage mechanisms, audio/video chat and more, as well as integrating AI into the Nextcloud platform (e.g. LLMs, speech-to-text, and image processing services). You ideally have open source experience, know your way around git and Github.

Tasks

• Feature development
• Integration of AI services and models (Python / APIs / microservices)
• Database design
• Systems design
• Quality assurance
• Project-based development, working on one project for a defined timeframe

Requirements

• Technical experience with PHP and bit of HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Experience with Python for AI/ML integrations
• Experience with one or more frontend frameworks like VueJS or React, Angular, Svelte
• Familiarity with AI/LLM frameworks (e.g. Hugging Face, LangChain)
• Familiarity with REST APIs and REST-based AI services
• Understanding of containerization (Docker) and model deployment workflows
• Experience with speech, vision, or NLP integrations (e.g. Whisper, OCR, embeddings)
• Knowledge around open source technology
• Ideally experience with Nextcloud AI features or similar platforms
• Reliability, independent and self-reliant working style

Benefits

• A distributed, open team with a passion for working on and within the open source community
• Developing a product which pushes the boundaries of technology and with a global user and contributor community
• A competitive salary
• Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance
• Time for personal growth and education
• We are looking for somebody with ambition and drive who would like to grow and learn.
• A distributed, open team with a passion for working on and within the open source community
• Developing a product which pushes the boundaries of technology and with a global user and contributor community
• A competitive salary
• Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance
• Time for personal growth and education
• We are looking for somebody with ambition and drive who would like to grow and learn.