Senior Middleware Engineer AI (m/f/d)

Festanstellung, Vollzeit • Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany remote


At Jedox, we offer cutting-edge Performance Management Platform and Solutions that enable businesses to plan, analyze, and optimize their financial and operational performance. Our B2B Platform as a Service Offering consists of various components, such as sophisticated data representation and data collection, a powerful planning engine, and data integration, developed by our specialized product teams.

To drive our Digital Business Partner” vision, our AI team focuses on leveraging AI across all areas of our platform. We are now looking for a Senior Middleware Engineer AI (m/f/d) to help shape the future of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) through modern AI capabilities.


As a Senior Middleware Engineer AI, you will be a key technical leader responsible for the architecture, development, and integration of robust middleware solutions that connect and optimize our AI/ML services within the Jedox platform.

You will play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless, secure, and high-performance communication between data pipelines, AI services, and core platform components. Your expertise will help transform raw data and AI outputs into accessible, actionable insights for our customers, supporting both operational excellence and innovation.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and develop middleware: Build and maintain scalable middleware components that integrate AI/ML services with core platform modules, ensuring reliability, security, and high performance. Architect and optimize communication protocols and APIs between data pipelines, AI/ML services, and user-facing applications.
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Cloud teams to deliver robust, end-to-end AI-driven solutions.
• Automate and monitor: Implement automation and observability for middleware components, supporting continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) and real-time monitoring.
• Ensure security and compliance: Maintain adherence to security protocols and regulatory requirements across all middleware and integration layers.
• Mentor and inspire: Guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing.
• Innovate and evolve: Stay current with AI/ML and middleware technologies, advocating for the adoption of impactful innovations and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement: Refine middleware architectural standards and integration frameworks to enhance performance and scalability.

• 8+ years of experience in middleware engineering, software engineering, or a related field, with a strong focus on AI/ML system integration.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing robust, production-ready middleware architectures (including API gateways, message brokers, and service meshes).
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration (e.g., Airflow), big data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Kafka), and integration of AI/ML services.
• Proficient in Python and familiar with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of security best practices and regulatory requirements for middleware and data integration.
• Proficient working in agile environments and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Passion for mentoring and driving technical innovation in AI/ML middleware solutions.

About us

Jedox is a leading software solution that enables business planning, budgeting, and forecasting for finance, sales, and other business functions with leading-edge technology to drive Digital Transformation and provide tangible customer value. Constant innovation has made us a leader in the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) sector.

Our Values

At Jedox, we pride ourselves on our core corporate values, which drive our success as a team.
Our growth mindset encourages us to constantly learn, evolve and innovate, pushing ourselves to new heights. We work together as #OneTeam OneJedox, with a shared passion for achieving excellence in everything we do. We execute with precision and hold ourselves to the highest standards of excellence, ensuring that we deliver impactful results that exceed our customers' expectations. Our focus on people centricity ensures that our employees are at the heart of everything we do, enabling us to attract and retain top talent. We believe that effective communication and engagement are key to building strong relationships, both internally and with our customers, partners and stakeholders.

Why should you join our team?

At Jedox, we want our customers to achieve #Superplännen. It is that exhilarating feeling when an organization performs how it envisioned it.
When you plan for the future and achieve your goals, we call it Superplännen, and we want you to achieve the same. This is why at Jedox our culture is shaped by our global collaboration, passion for people and development, diversity, and commitment to innovation. We refer to it as our #OneTeam mantra, which is ingrained in everything we do.

We believe in lifelong learning and encourage team members to pursue personal and professional development, including internal & external training and certifications. We also enjoy meeting regularly (online or in persona) with each other all across the world for work, team events, to spend quality time together & have fun, or even do sports together.

The same effort and attention are being given to ensure employee satisfaction in an out of the office. Some of those perks include:

• Flexible work: we love to work together in the offices as #Oneteam, but we also enjoy the possibility of working from everywhere and owning working hours.
• Take time to care for yourself: We offer generous vacation time and comprehensive health benefits plans, including Pension plans.
• Plan for your future: Planning means something different to everyone. Work with your Line Manager to implement a career growth plan that suits your path.
• Reduce your footprint: All offices are centrally located and can be easily reached via public transportation. Most Jedox offices offer public transit reimbursement or other perks like bike leasing.
• High-impact working environment: we enjoy flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes.
• Get corporate discounts across many brands and products.

Jedox is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and does not discriminate based on color, religion or belief, nationality, social or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the laws and regulations in the geographic locations in which we operate.