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

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