Software Engineer - Graph Data Science - Neo4j

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Job Title

Software Engineer - Graph Data Science

Job Location

Malmö

Job Listing URL

https://boards.greenhouse.io/neo4j/jobs/4426189006?gh_jid=4426189006

Job Description

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 Role

Do you enjoy thinking about algorithms and data structures? Are you passionate about performance? Interested in graphs? Here at Neo4j, we’re building a comprehensive and high-performance platform for graph algorithms and machine learning methods to help the world make sense of data. This is an opportunity to work on cutting edge technology of machine learning and applied graph theory.

Our users want to analyze data relationships and structures to develop answers, insights and predictions about their data. You will work on products that will go directly into the hands of our customers who are using Neo4j products to identify financial crimes, perform real-time recommendation, and power knowledge graph applications.

What You'll Do

Improve Neo4j’s Graph Data Science (GDS) platform, including its integrations in Neo4j Aura and Snowflake
Write high-performance Java and Python code with a strong focus on usability, efficiency, and scalability
Apply data- and benchmark-driven practices to drive decision-making and design
Work in a highly collaborative and friendly team of skilled and motivated engineers
Identify and integrate new areas of research that can solve our customers’ most difficult problems
Partner with software engineers from other teams in Neo4j to ensure interoperability with the core database

What You'll Bring

Strong experience with JVM languages or with system programming languages, such as C, C++, Rust and willingness to learn Java
Experience in developing software with a focus on performance and scalability
Experience with the Python ecosystem, preferably through writing products in Python
Creativity and motivation to drive your own ideas
Master's degree in Computer Science or another related field or 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer

Bonus Points

Experience in GPU programming, SIMD / vectorization or other hardware-level optimization techniques
Experience with cloud databases, especially Snowflake
Familiarity with graph theory
Experience with working in a distributed / remote team
Experience with GenAI tools and MCP servers

#Li-Hybrid

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. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.

Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.

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)

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

More information at www.neo4j.com.

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