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

Nextcloud · Stuttgart - Remote · 2026-09-14

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.