Senior Backend Engineer - Graph Analytics & AI (Remote)

Neo4j; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Neo4j is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape the core intelligence of GraphAware Hume, our graph-powered analytics platform. You will own API design, security, and scalable data workflows in a remote-first team.

Join a world-class engineering group across Europe, contributing to architecture decisions and performance optimization while delivering reliable enterprise-grade graph analytics.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend experience with large-scale applications.
• Fluency in Java with solid software engineering principles: Clean Architecture, DDD, and TDD.
• Spring or similar frameworks for secure, modular APIs.
• Experience modeling relational and graph data (Neo4j or similar).
• Knowledge of CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and automated deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build APIs for intuitive interaction with complex data.
• Design secure, scalable access control for mission-critical environments.
• Orchestrate workflows to automate graph analytics, inference, and real-time insights.
• Optimize application performance and collaborate to ensure seamless user experiences.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design with the team.

Skills

Java

Backend systems

Spring Framework

DDD

TDD

Security mindset

APIs

CI/CD

Remote collaboration

Tools

Docker

PostgreSQL

Neo4j

Job description

Neo4j is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape the core intelligence of GraphAware Hume, our graph-powered analytics platform. You will own API design, security, and scalable data workflows in a remote-first team.

Join a world-class engineering group across Europe, contributing to architecture decisions and performance optimization while delivering reliable enterprise-grade graph analytics.