Founding Backend Engineer - Product Analytics Platform (Go)

Neo4j, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Neo4j, Inc. in London is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Product Analytics Platform team. You’ll help define the Analytics API and the ingestion surface across Neo4j Aura, building reliable Go services and a clean integration contract for multiple product teams.

Collaborating with Product Management and other engineering groups, you’ll drive architectural decisions, RFCs, documentation, and adoption, while keeping data contracts simple, scalable, and well-documented for broad use.

Qualifications

• Strong backend experience with Go building APIs or ingestion systems.
• Experience designing well-defined APIs and integration contracts.
• Production Go services experience, from utilities to microservices.
• Familiarity with event-driven data pipelines and ingestion tooling.
• Ability to work independently and drive work forward with limited direction.
• Comfort writing RFCs and technical documentation and collaborating across teams.
• Clear, concise communication for contract definitions and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the Analytics API and the underlying infrastructure, defining the schema and integration contract used by teams across Aura.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions around event ingestion, data contracts, reliability, and scalability as the platform grows.
• Build a simple, well-defined integration layer that makes it easy for product teams to send analytics events without coupling them to the underlying data infrastructure.
• Drive adoption across the Engineering organisation, working with teams to integrate with the API and providing the guidance and documentation they need.
• Keep product analytics and billing concerns cleanly separated, even where the underlying data flows or infrastructure may be similar.
• Evaluate build vs. buy across the existing analytics and data stack, including tools such as Segment and BigQuery, keeping the API focused on collection rather than reimplementing downstream capabilities.
• Partner closely with the team building the downstream data pipeline to ensure raw events are reliable, well-structured, and usable for analytics.
• Define and evolve the platform through RFCs, technical documentation, and close collaboration with Product Management and other engineering teams.

Skills

Go

APIs

API design

Event-driven

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Segment

BigQuery

Cloud platforms

Job description

Neo4j, Inc. in London is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Product Analytics Platform team. You’ll help define the Analytics API and the ingestion surface across Neo4j Aura, building reliable Go services and a clean integration contract for multiple product teams.

Collaborating with Product Management and other engineering groups, you’ll drive architectural decisions, RFCs, documentation, and adoption, while keeping data contracts simple, scalable, and well-documented for broad use.