Go Developer - London
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From our technology to our team members, Neo4j is built on relationships.
As part of Neo4j product engineering, you will work together with a diverse team of talented colleagues from around the world. Our culture encourages engineers who want to become deep experts in a particular field – or to build broad expertise across several technologies. Our engineers regularly work with peers in field engineering and experience the full lifecycle of the systems they build.
We build technology that helps cure cancers, addresses diabetes, and gets humans to Mars. We're proud to fight fraud, crush pandemics, and even help journalists uncover the truth. Neo4j’s engineering teams are located in Malmö, Sweden and London, UK.
The Role
We are on the lookout for an experienced developer to join our Driver Engineering Team.
You’ll primarily be responsible for the Go Driver, which interacts with the server through the Bolt binary protocol transmitted over the network and exposes an idiomatic API consumed by client applications. You will also be involved with development work on other language drivers, the Neo4j server networking component, our build and test infrastructure, and technical documentation.
This role will give you the opportunity to influence the strategic direction for connectivity with Neo4j and the drivers together with our product managers. There will be functional and technical design work, for instance protocol and API design. As well as software development, should you wish you can become involved in supporting community projects, writing blog posts and helping with training and other events.
You must have 2+ years' practical experience in:
- Go
- API Design
You will ideally have experience and interest in:
- Network communication and protocols, and how to reduce latency and overhead
- Database management systems, Database design, and server-side consumption of data.
You may have also worked with some or all of:
- Working in distributed/clustered environments (Docker, kubernetes, etc.)
- Other backend languages and layers, or generally find system design interesting
- Worked with CGO to interact with C/C++ programs
- The Python programming language
Country
- GB
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented groups apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Neo4j encourages everyone interested in a role to apply. We look forward to your application!
Neo4j Values:
Our work in Neo4j Engineering is guided by our company 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)
Why Join Neo4j?
Neo4j is one of the 20 most popular databases in the world, and the leader in the rapidly emerging Graph Database category. We’re building the technology that enables connected data to solve the world’s most pressing problems. You’ll work on unique engineering projects that challenge what’s possible.
We have customers in every industry across the globe, and our products a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics.
We pride ourselves on being a welcoming team. Most of us would agree that one of the best parts of working at Neo4j is the people we get to work with.
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t 100% fit the qualifications above. Why? Because we are committed to building an environment that fosters belonging, which means valuing intellectually honest discussions and being receptive to new ideas and perspectives.
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.
About Neo4j:
Neo4j is the leader in graph database technology. As the world’s most widely deployed graph database, we help organizations – including NASA, UBS and Volvo Cars – to reveal and predict how people, processes and systems interrelate. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built using Neo4j tackle connected data challenges such as analytics and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and knowledge graphs.
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.
