Job Description
About Neo4j:
Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter.
Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems. We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business.
Our Vision:
At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.
As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.
The Team:
Do you have a passion for large-scale cloud systems, graph technology, and robust system design? Are you eager to build scalable infrastructure while creating seamless developer experiences? Here at Neo4j, we are building a high-performance cloud platform for graph algorithms and machine learning to help the world make sense of data—from detecting financial fraud and driving real-time recommendations to powering cutting-edge knowledge graphs.
As a Developer on our team, you will sit at the intersection of our entire platform ecosystem. You will gain hands-on experience bridging cloud infrastructure, robust backend services, and user-facing client code. In this role, you will actively contribute to:
Telemetry & User Observability: Building tools and metrics that give users clear insights into platform health and job execution.
Data Transfer & Performance: Optimizing pipelines for seamless data ingestion and streaming between client environments and our cloud backend.
Developer UX Improvements: Refining client interfaces and integration points to ensure our platform is intuitive, fast, and easy to adopt.
This is an opportunity to directly impact the tools our global customer base relies on every day, working alongside a supportive team that will help you sharpen your skills across the full technology stack.
What You'll do:
Improve Neo4j’s Graph Data Science platform, focusing on its integrations in Neo4j Aura
Write new features that bridge the gap between on-premise and cloud solutions
Write Java, Go and Python code with a strong focus on usability, efficiency, and scalability
Work on and improve the observability of our cloud systems
Work in a highly collaborative and friendly team of skilled and motivated engineers
Identify and integrate new areas of research that can solve our customers’ most difficult problems
Partner with software engineers from other teams in Neo4j to ensure interoperability with the core database
What You'll Bring:
Interest in JVM languages or system programming languages, such as C, C++, Rust and willingness to learn Java, Go, Python
Interest or Experience in Kubernetes and cloud computing
Familiarity with graph theory
Creativity and motivation to drive your own ideas
Willingness to work in a distributed and remote-first team
Master's degree in Computer Science or another related field or 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
#Li-Hybrid
Why Join Neo4j?
Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph intelligence platform in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.
Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.
One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.
Neo4j Values:
Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:
(we)-[:VALUE]->(relationships)
(we)-[:FOCUS_ON]->(userSuccess)
(we)-[:THRIVE_IN]->(:Culture {type: [‘Open’, ‘Inclusive’]})
(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:’Positive’})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: ‘IntellectuallyHonest’})
(we)-[:DELIVER_ON]->(ourCommitments)
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More information at www.neo4j.com.
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