Software Engineer

Cypher Composite

Posted on 7/19/2023

INACTIVE

501-1,000 employees

Graph database and analytics platform for connected data

Company Overview

Neo4j stands as a leader in the Graph Database & Analytics sector, providing organizations with the tools to uncover hidden relationships and patterns in vast data connections, thereby enabling them to address their most critical business challenges. The company's full graph stack and robust community of developers, data scientists, and architects serve hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. Additionally, Neo4j offers flexible deployment options, including cloud-based or on-premise solutions, to meet stringent data security requirements, demonstrating their commitment to customer needs and data integrity.

Data & Analytics

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$581.6M

Founded

2007

Headquarters

San Mateo, California

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 4%

1 year growth

↑ 2%

2 year growth

↑ 21%

Locations

London, UK

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Java

Scala

CategoriesNew

Software Engineering

Requirements

Experience developing production level software
Knowledge of Java, Scala or similar languages
Ability to work independently within a flexible software development organization
Ability to communicate about, and collaborate on, complex topics

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing features in different parts of the database stack, from the Cypher language implementation down to cluster networking
Participating in daily stand-ups, frequent pair programming, design meetings, and retrospectives
Tracking down and fixing bugs, fixing downstream test failures, documenting features, and studying the latest in database research
Learning, thinking, and experimenting to specialize in topics of interest and help grow yourself, the team, and the product

Desired Qualifications

Understanding of the internals of databases, compilers or query languages
Experience with asynchronous and reactive programming
Experience of distributed systems though usage, administration or development
An interest in recent distributed systems developments (academic or industrial)

About Neo4j:

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.

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 Role:

We are looking for a software engineer to join the Neo4j Cypher Composite Engineering Team. Cypher Composite is the technology behind distributed query execution in the Neo4j Database Management System. Distributed query execution is a complex and interesting topic, involving query language design and implementation, as well as performant networking and concurrency.

As part of an energetic and fun team of engineers you will be working at the frontier of designing and implementing new capabilities for the Neo4j database. The amount of data handled by our customers is ever growing, and distributed query execution is more important than ever.

What The Work Is Like:

Designing and implementing features in different parts of the database stack, from the Cypher language implementation down to cluster networking. We have a development process focused on taking time to achieve quality and correctness. However, there is plenty of room for pragmatism and fast paced problem solving
Out methodology involves daily stand-ups, frequent pair programming, design meetings and retrospectives
Apart from coding features, we also track down both easy and tough bugs, fix downstream test failures, document features, participate in cross-team design meetings, and study the latest in database research
You will also spend time learning, thinking and experimenting. Specializing in topics that interest you and helping to grow yourself, the team and the product

What You Will Bring:

Experience developing production level software
Knowledge of Java, Scala or similar languages
Ability to work independently within a flexible software development organization
Ability to communicate about, and collaborate on, complex topics

Nice to Bring:

Understanding of the internals of databases, compilers or query languages
Experience with asynchronous and reactive programming
Experience of distributed systems though usage, administration or development
An interest in recent distributed systems developments (academic or industrial)

Why Join Neo4j?

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry across the globe, 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. Well over $100M ARR and still rapidly growing.
Raised biggest round of funding in all of database history ($325M Series F).
Backed by world class investors like Google Ventures (GV), Neo4j has raised over $582M in funding and is currently valued at $2Bn. This puts them among the most well-funded database companies in history.
75% of Fortune 100 use Neo4j with more than 800 enterprise customers including Comcast, eBay, Adobe, Lyft, UBS, IBM,Volvo Cars and many more.
Emil Eifrem (CEO) has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation and customer success.
Countless awards in the industry. Massive Enterprises and individual developers/ data scientists love Neo4j. Strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact Study pegged 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 of 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 atwww.neo4j.com.