We are hiring

Nextcloud is looking for people who want to join our team.

Our company

We are a modern, distributed, open source company. It is our mission to provide our users and customers with the means for data storage, access and communication under their control, protecting their privacy and security.

We pursue a fully-open strategy, keeping internal communication to a minimum while aiming to work, discuss and develop in public. We are a thriving, quickly growing company with a solid customer base. An open source background or experience contributing to Nextcloud is a big plus for job applicants! Especially for developers we pursue a strong “hire from the community” strategy.

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FAQs applying with Nextcloud

Contact us at jobs@nextcloud.com with your resume, the role you’re interested in and your motivation. We post new vacancies regularly, so it is worth having a look every now and then, if you don’t find a suitable vacancy first time around.

It is not necessary to apply multiple times when you see more than one vacancy that is of interest to you. In this case please let us know which positions are of interest to you, we will then be able to consider your application for all positions listed. Multiple applications just cause additional administrative burden.

In case you have been rejected in the past, we encourage you to reapply if your qualifications or experience have changed in the meantime, or if you see a new role more suitable to your skills.

Thanks for your interest in Nextcloud! We will reach out if we need more information from you.
If your experience is a good fit for our vacancy, we will be in touch soon. Please note that it’s not possible for us to respond to every candidate, but we review every application.

Please always include your CV in PDF format, detailing relevant skills, keywords, and experience. You might want to consider writing a short note about who you are and why you want to join Nextcloud. Additional information that is valuable to us and you can, but don’t have to include availability (when can you start and how many hours per week to you want to work?) and salary desired.

Our goal is to continue to grow Nextcloud and build a more diverse team in the most efficient way possible. Diversity and inclusion are some of our core values.
Nextcloud’s people policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment and career development aim to ensure that we welcome people from all walks of lives in their individuality and do not discriminate.

At Nextcloud, we do not accept solicitations from recruitment agencies, headhunters, or outsourcing organizations. Please refrain from sending us information or profiles as they will not be considered.

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Nextcloud actively strives for diversity

We would like to especially encourage applications by people from underrepresented groups in tech.
As a very international, distributed company with employees in over 30 countries and on most continents, our company language is English, most of us work from home or a local co-working space and working hours are very flexible. We try to bring everyone in the company together for a week 2-3 times a year, with once being our yearly conference in Berlin. The teams also organize their own, separate meetings throughout the year as working together is fun and productive!

Open positions

At Nextcloud we help our users achieve a safe home for all their data. Secure, under your control and developed in an open, transparent and trustworthy way. Our Team of 140 is distributed in 25 countries worldwide.

We work remotely and our work culture is shaped by mutual trust, enthusiasm and a strong belief in the principles of open source.

We are seeking a proactive, detail-oriented Accountant / Finance Executive Assistant to join our team and play a crucial role in our financial operations. In this position, you will work closely with our financial executives, providing them with the support they need to drive our company’s success.

Responsibilities

  • Receivables management
  • Notification of reportable foreign payments
  • Dunning process
  • Account clarification/reconciliation
  • Contact person for customers/ debtors (regarding payment modalities)
  • Processing of travel expenses
  • Assistance in Financial Planning processes
  • General back office tasks

Requirements

  • Experience in customer receivables management
  • Experience in travel expense management
  • Experience with reportable foreign payments
  • Understanding of general accounting
  • Experience in financial planning
  • Commercial training, ideally education in financial accounting
  • Fluent in English, ideally German speaker
  • Reliability, excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to work in a team and independently

What we offer

  • A distributed, open team with a passion for working on and within the open source community
  • A fun and diverse team
  • A product which pushes the boundaries of technology with a global user and contributor community
  • A competitive salary
  • Remote work and flexibility for a healthy work-life balance
  • Time for personal growth and education

Contact

We are looking for somebody with ambition and drive who would like to grow and learn. Send your resume to jobs@nextcloud.com if you are interested in this role. We especially encourage applications by people from under-represented groups.

We are seeking a passionate Account Manager to focus on cultivating and maintaining long-term relationships with our existing customers, ensuring their continued success and satisfaction with our solutions.

Your responsibilities will center around nurturing these relationships, connecting with key business executives and stakeholders, and acting as the primary point of contact for your assigned customers. You will work closely with cross-functional internal teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of solutions that meet our customers’ needs.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the lead point of contact for all matters specific to existing customers
  • Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships
  • Identify and develop growth opportunities within your existing customer portfolio
  • Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives
  • Collaborate with our partners to deliver the best solutions to our customers
  • Communicate clearly the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives internally
  • Forecast and track key account metrics, negotiate tender and contract terms and conditions to meet both client and company needs
  • Assist with high severity requests or issue escalations as needed

Required skills

  • Experience in account management or other relevant roles focused on existing customer relationships
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level
  • Experience in delivering client-focused solutions based on customer needs
  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining strict attention to priorities
  • Excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills

What we offer

  • A distributed, open team with a passion for working within the open-source community
  • The opportunity to promote and support a product that pushes the boundaries of technology, with a global user and contributor community
  • A competitive salary
  • Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance
  • Time for personal growth and an annual educational budget
  • Opportunities for growth and learning, even if you don’t meet all the requirements yet but have the ambition to learn and develop

Contact

If you are interested in this role, please contact us at jobs@nextcloud.com with your resume. We are excited to hear from you!

We’re looking for developers with experience in Javascript/front-end development to join our server team!

You would work with the engineering team to bring new features and improvements to the server user interface like our File management app or one of the many other applications like Calendar and Contacts, Announcements and more. You ideally have open source experience, know your way around git and Github.

Responsibilities:

  • Front end development (JS, PHP)
  • Cross platform testing
  • Quality assurance

Required skills:

  • Deep technical experience with Javascript
  • Experience with TechStack Canvas is desirable
  • PHP experience a plus
  • Teamworking capabilities
  • Independence and self-reliance
  • Knowledge around open source technology

What we offer:

  • 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. That means that if you don’t fulfill the requirements yet but want to learn, apply!

Contact us at jobs@nextcloud.com with your resume if you are interested in this role.

We’re looking for engineers with experience in PHP back-end development to join our server 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. You ideally have open source experience, know your way around git and Github.

Responsibilities:

  • Back end development (PHP)
  • Database design
  • Systems design
  • Quality assurance

Required skills:

  • Technical experience with PHP and bit of HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • Teamworking capabilities
  • Independence and self-reliance.
  • Knowledge around open source technology

What we offer:

  • 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. That means that if you don’t fulfill the requirements yet but want to learn, apply!

Contact us at jobs@nextcloud.com with your resume if you are interested in this role.

Technical sales engineers use their technical knowledge along with sales skills to provide advice and support on a range of products, for which a certain level of expertise is needed.
You work close together with sales and engineering and assist colleagues with bids and tenders for new clients from a technical perspective, working on proof of concept deployments and answering questions.

You like to work independently and self responsible on dedicated projects but like to also to exchange your knowledge with your colleagues.

Responsibilities:

  • persuading clients that a product or service best satisfies their needs in terms of quality, price and delivery
  • working closely together with sales on customer projects
  • calculating client quotations
  • providing pre-sales technical assistance and product education
  • working on after-sales support services and providing technical backup as required
  • arranging and carrying out product training
  • support POC and Pilots at the customers together with support and engineering
  • supporting sales and marketing activities by attending trade shows, conferences and other marketing events
  • making technical presentations and demonstrating how a product meets client needs
  • liaising with other members of the sales team and other technical experts
  • helping in the design of custom-made products
  • providing training and producing support material for other members of the sales team

Required skills:

  • Solid technical background for infrastructure set-ups in medium and large organizations
  • Sales skills
  • Sound judgement and good business sense
  • Organizational skills
  • Teamworking capabilities
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Independence and self-reliance.
  • Problem solving
  • Product knowledge around open source technology
  • General programming skills in PHP, HTML, CSS

What we offer:

  • A distributed, open team with a passion for working on and within the open source community
  • Promoting and selling 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. That means that if you don’t fulfill the requirements yet but want to learn, apply!

Contact us at jobs@nextcloud.com with your resume if you are interested in this role.

We’re looking for developers with experience in WebRTC development to join our server team!

You would work with the engineering team to bring new features and improvements to the server user interface like our File management app or one of the many other applications like Calendar and Contacts, Announcements and more. You ideally have open source experience, know your way around git and Github.

Responsibilities:

  • Front end development (JS, PHP, WebRTC)
  • Cross platform testing
  • Quality assurance

Required skills:

  • Deep technical experience with WebRTC, Javascript and perhaps a bit of PHP
  • Teamworking capabilities
  • Independence and self-reliance.
  • Knowledge around open source technology

What we offer:

  • 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. That means that if you don’t fulfill the requirements yet but want to learn, apply!

Contact us at jobs@nextcloud.com with your resume if you are interested in this role.

Internship at Nextcloud

At Nextcloud, we believe in providing opportunities for individuals to gain valuable skills and experience as they enter the workforce. Our internship program offers a diverse range of opportunities, not only in areas where we are currently hiring, but also in roles that may not currently have open positions.

If you’re interested in an internship at Nextcloud, we encourage you to reach out to us with your areas of interest and the skills or education you bring to the table. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, including recent graduates, career changers, and individuals who may have taken a break from working. Join our team and take the first step in building a great open source work experience.

Internship at Nextcloud

Benefits

We’re a small company looking to change the world and you can change it with us.

Do you have any questions?

Contact us at jobs@nextcloud.com and tell us how we can help you!