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:

Do you like to solve advanced and complex computer science problems? Do you want to be part of a team that values user success and where you can have intellectually honest discussions?

We are looking for a backend engineer that is able to solve technical challenges and deliver high-quality code to join our talented, innovative Kernel team. You will be part of a brilliant, energetic, and fun team of engineers working on the development of the storage engines, transaction handling, indexes, and page cache in order to build the core of the graph database!
You will be part of an international team based in Malmö, Sweden, and London.

What you will do:

Build and ship new features for the core of the leading graph database
Write high-quality, testable, and efficient code
Promote new ideas, take an active part in features discussions and roadmap prioritization
Integrate research and technologies into the database core - the team regularly reads research papers to see if there are some new ideas to incorporate into the product
Work closely with our customers and collaborate with other teams
“Do what you want weeks” to work on your own product enhancements and integrations

You’ll thrive in this role if:
You have experience designing multi-threaded systems and algorithms
You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
You are proficient in Java or a C-style programming language
You have strong troubleshooting skills
You have knowledge about performance profiling and optimization
You are humble. Being able to discuss ideas and, challenge each other to build better solutions together
You have good communication skills and a sense of humor!

You may also have experience and interest in the following:

Database management systems
Deep JVM experience
Experience with large codebases

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)

Neo4j is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read theprivacy notice regarding Neo4j’s recruitment process to understand how we will handle the personal data that you provide.

More information atwww.neo4j.com.

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