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 Team
Cypher is the query language of the Neo4j Graph Database. It is similar to SQL, but designed specifically for graph databases and for finding patterns in the graph. In 2024 ISO released the first database query language standard since SQL, called GQL, which was heavily influenced by Cypher. Cypher is mostly GQL compliant already and the goal is to be fully compliant.
The Cypher Surface team is one of five Cypher teams and handles the first part (the surface) of the Cypher stack including things like parsing and semantic analysis of the incoming query. The team is also responsible for the procedure framework, and maintains some of the default procedure libraries shipped with Neo4j.
The Role
We are looking to strengthen the Cypher Surface team with two additional software engineers. The main purpose of the recruitment is to put more focus on developing and extending the procedures for using external Gen AI tools from Neo4j, but you will be part of the team like everyone else and not dedicated just to that library.
The Cypher stack is mostly written in Scala, while the procedures are written in Java.
The teams are self-organised and set up their own ways of working, within the guidelines of the overall ways of working in Engineering. As an engineer, you have a lot of freedom in how you carry out the tasks ahead of you.
Skills
- 3-5 years of relevant work experience
- Proficient in either Java or Scala and willing to learn the other
- Version control (preferably git)
- Experience of Databases
- Experience of consuming API’s (e.g. REST, GraphQL or similar)
- An interest in Gen AI and what can be done with it
- Experience of secure development practices, and writing security sensitive code
Nice to have
- Scala, or another functional language.
- Query language design and implementation
- Neo4j experience
- Experience in building Gen AI based applications
