Software Engineer - Developer Surface in London

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 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 owns the surface used by developers to build, manage, and experiment with Neo4j and Aura, our managed cloud service.

We build:

• The open‐source @neo4j/graphql library and the managed GraphQL Data API in Aura, helping developers create full‐stack applications using Neo4j
• MCP servers that let developers interact with Neo4j and Aura using natural language
• The Aura API and CLI, which enable users to manage their Aura resources programmatically and integrate Neo4j Aura into their workflows

We are a hybrid team with seven engineers working from the office and from home in varying amounts. We’re quite a sociable bunch and enjoy getting together in person whenever possible. We’re on the lookout for an eighth engineer to join us in building amazing developer tooling!

What you’ll do:

• Maintain and improve our existing developer interfaces to enhance the Neo4j developer experience
• Be part of designing and architecting new tools and APIs that define how developers interact with Neo4j and Aura
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including support
• Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to ensure high product quality
• Be curious and willing to learn

What you’ll bring:

• Proficient in Go and TypeScript
• A desire to write high-quality, well tested code

Bonus points for the following:

• Proficient at building and running systems on Kubernetes
• Knowledge of major public cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)
• Experience with Terraform
• Frontend experience
• Experience with graph databases, or better yet, Neo4j!

Why Join Neo4j?

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.

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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