Software Engineer - Connectors

Software Engineer - Connectors

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding of their business and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems.

At Neo4j, we're proud to build the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers. These solutions have helped NASA get to Mars two years earlier, broke the Panama Papers for the ICIJ, and are helping Transport for London to cut congestion by 10% and save $750M a year. Some of our other notable customers include Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, UBS, and Walmart.

Neo4j experienced rapid growth this year as organizations looking to deploy generative AI (GenAI) recognized graph databases as essential for improving its accuracy, transparency, and explainability. Growth was further fueled by enterprise demand for Neo4j's cloud offering and partnerships with leading cloud hyperscalers and ecosystem leaders. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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.

In the Connectors team, we have six engineers. Our work enables Neo4j to connect with the data ecosystem, facilitating the movement of data from other systems into a graph for analysis and returning the results to various business systems. We build on a vast variety of technological stacks, from building products on top of Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and Apache Beam to integrating Neo4j into Google Dataflow Templates and Microsoft Fabric. We also build backend components for our Data Importer product, including deployment of those into our Kubernetes-based infrastructure. At times, we also need to build frontends for our customers to interact with what we build.

As a software engineer in the Connectors team, you'll:

• Be part of designing and architecting connectors for the Neo4j database
• Build and maintain new and existing connectors for various technologies
• Design new streaming/data ingestion APIs to make Neo4j faster and easier to use for our customers
• When necessary, work across teams to enhance our core database features
• Occasionally, build front-ends for connectors or integrations that require user interaction

What you'll bring to this role:

• You have 3+ years of experience developing production-level software
• You have experience designing multi-threaded systems and algorithms
• You have hands-on experience with backend programming languages, such as Kotlin, Java, or Go
• You ideally have professional experience developing software systems, either in cloud or on-premises, involving either of the following:
• Distributed event streaming platforms, such as Apache Kafka or similar products
• Data processing and analytics platforms, such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam, or their derivatives
• Data warehouses in the cloud, such as AWS Redshift, GCP BigQuery, and Azure Synapse etc.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j or other SQL/NoSQL databases
• Experience in frontend development, ideally with React and TypeScript

We encourage you to apply even if you don't have experience across all of these areas, since the team will have a mix of different skills.

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database 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.
• Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.

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 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: relationships, user success, open and inclusive culture, positive intent, intellectually honest discussions, and delivering on our commitments.