Software Engineer - Developer Surface

Neo4j; Malmö kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,150,000; Full time

Job summary

Neo4j is seeking an engineer to maintain and enhance our developer interfaces and APIs, shaping how developers interact with Neo4j and Aura. You will participate in the full software lifecycle and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver high-quality tooling.

The role emphasizes production-grade software, API design, and writing clean, well-tested code, with a hybrid work setup allowing collaboration from office and home.

Qualifications

• Production-grade software experience.
• Proficient in Go and TypeScript.
• Interest in API design/development.
• Desire to write high-quality, well-tested code.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve our developer interfaces to enhance the Neo4j developer experience.
• Be part of designing and architecting new tools and APIs that define how developers interact with Neo4j and Aura.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including support.
• Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to ensure high product quality.
• Be curious and willing to learn.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

API design

Testing

Kubernetes

Public cloud

Terraform

Frontend experience

Neo4j

Job description

About Neo4j

Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter.

About Neo4j

Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. It includes enterprise-ready knowledge graphs for accurate, explainable, and governed AI; the most comprehensive, trusted, and easy-to-deploy graph capabilities across any environment and data source; and an unmatched ecosystem trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100 and supported by the world’s largest graph community. Intelligence that works. Results that matter.

Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems. We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business.

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 Team

The team owns the surface used by developers to build, manage, and experiment with Neo4j and Aura, our managed cloud service.

We Build

• The open-source @neo4j/graphql library and the managed GraphQL Data API in Aura, helping developers create full‑stack applications using Neo4j
• MCP servers that let developers interact with Neo4j and Aura using natural language
• The Aura API and CLI, which enable users to manage their Aura resources programmatically and integrate Neo4j Aura into their workflows

We are a hybrid team with seven engineers working from the office and from home in varying amounts. We’re quite a sociable bunch and enjoy getting together in person whenever possible. We’re on the lookout for an eighth engineer to join on helping us build amazing developer tooling!

The Role

What you’ll do

• Maintain and improve our existing developer interfaces to enhance the Neo4j developer experience
• Be part of designing and architecting new tools and APIs that define how developers interact with Neo4j and Aura
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including support
• Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to ensure high product quality
• Be curious and willing to learn

What you’ll bring

• Experience developing production level software
• Proficient in Go and TypeScript
• An interest in API design/development
• A desire to write high-quality, well tested code

Bonus points for the following

• Proficient at building and running systems on Kubernetes
• Knowledge of major public cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)
• Experience with Terraform
• Frontend experience
• Experience with graph databases, or better yet, Neo4j!