Software Engineer – Connectors

Neo4j Inc
The Role

Here is your chance to be an early joiner of our recently formed team within our Engineering organization for building connectors, data ingestion tools and streaming APIs between the Neo4j database and other platforms! We are now looking for an experienced engineer who would like to be a major contributor to the design and development of new Neo4j data integration solutions with us.

We are in the process of designing and building a new generation of connectors for Neo4j, making our database accessible from a wider range of environments including widely used big data and data warehouse products in the cloud and on-premises, while also helping improve the core database’s data ingestion capabilities with new features.

What You’ll Do:

• Be part of designing and architecting how to build future connectors for the Neo4j database
• Build and maintain new connectors for various technologies
• Design new streaming/data ingestion APIs to make Neo4j faster and easier to use for our customers
• When necessary work across teams to enhance our core database features

What You’ll bring to this role:

• You have 3+ years of experience developing production level software
• You have experience designing multi-threaded systems and algorithms
• You are proficient in at least one C-style programming language and willing to learn Java, which is the language that the Neo4j database is built in.
• You ideally have professional experience developing software systems, either in cloud or on-premises, involving either of the following;
  • Distributed event streaming platforms, such as Apache Kafka or similar products,
  • Data processing and analytics platforms, such as Apache Spark, Apache Beam or their derivatives,
  • Data warehouses in the cloud, such as AWS Redshift, GCP Bigquery and Azure Synapse, etc.

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.