Software Engineer, Neo4j
Build Systems
1-3 days a week in office
Graph-based data analysis
Be an early applicant
Graph-based data analysis
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
1-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help the world make sense of big data by enabling businesses and organizations to harness the power of connections and relationships in data.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Innovation in database models has developed gradually over the past decade, from scale-out SQL, to key-value stores. Every now and again, something comes along to change the game, and such is the case with Neo4j.
Offered as either a self-hosted database or cloud service, Neo4j is a graph database development platform that focuses on the connections between individual data entities. This offers insights into how systems, people, locations, and seemingly unrelated data points are related so that users can address complex data questions, such as business recommendations, AI, fraud detection, and more. The company is seen as a leader in graph technology with unlimited scaling, which was demonstrated when, in 2021, it produced a record-breaking graph database with over a trillion relationships.
Graph-based data models are now crucial components for AI and machine learning applications, and Neo4j has achieved an impressive number of funding rounds and amassed hundreds of enterprise customers using its product. These include Airbnb, eBay, Lyft, and NASA, the latter of which used graph database technology from Neo4j during the development of the Orion spacecraft.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Nov 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Nov 2021
$66m
SERIES F
Total funding: $633.3m
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Emil Eifrem
(CEO)Having studied at Linköping University, they spent over 3 years as Chief Architect at Windh AB, before working as CTO for almost 5 years. They left this position in January 2007 to found Neo4j, where have worked since as CEO.
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