Software Engineer - Build Systems

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About Neo4j

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. Over 84% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

About Neo4j

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. Over 84% 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 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 it’s 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.

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 Teams

You will be joining the ReleaseOps team – a multi-functional team that covers wide areas related to building, testing, and delivering code. However, initially, you will also be onboarded by the Build Systems team – a newly formed virtual group with a mission to improve the build infrastructure used by over 100 engineers across Neo4j. As this team consists of experienced developers who usually work in other teams, the interaction will only be temporary, and the ReleaseOps team is the long-term home of you and your work.

The Code

Our build system is currently based on Maven and supports a large repository using both Java and Scala. We face unique technical challenges around incremental builds, IDE integrations (especially with IntelliJ), and reliable packaging.

The Role

We’re looking for a Build Systems Engineer to take ownership of Neo4j’s build system and drive its evolution. This role offers the opportunity to go beyond maintenance, bringing fresh ideas and long-term solutions to how we build software at scale. You will be active in a highly collaborative environment with a big impact on day-to-day engineering productivity. You will work closely with the broader engineering organization to identify pain points, provide tooling improvements, and maintain a fast, reliable developer workflow.

As Our Build Systems Engineer, You Will

• Own and evolve our Maven-based build system for a large JVM-based repository
• Improve speed, reliability, and maintainability across both local and CI/CD build environments
• Collaborate closely with developers to identify bottlenecks, pain points, and opportunities for improvement
• Introduce and enforce best practices around dependency management, versioning, packaging, and licensing
• Contribute to better IDE experiences and development workflows, especially in IntelliJ
• Help shape architectural decisions related to build tooling, and lead the design of new build features
• Take a service-minded approach, supporting other engineers in building faster and more efficiently

What You\’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on build systems or developer tooling
• Hands-on experience with JVM build tools such as Maven, Gradle, or Bazel
• Experience working with large repositories and complex dependency structures
• Software development experience in Java or Scala.
• Familiarity with build performance tuning, incremental compilation, and CI optimization

Nice To Have

• Experience with Scala compiler behavior and Maven integration
• Familiarity with IntelliJ or Eclipse plugin/tooling ecosystems
• Knowledge of software packaging pipelines and license/header enforcement
• Contributions to open-source build tools or plugin ecosystems

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Software Development

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