Neo4j
Graph Intelligence Platform
SoftwareEngineer-VectorIndex
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“Software Engineer - Vector Index at Neo4j. Skills: Java, Algorithm development, Database indexes. Build and ship features. Evolve vector search capabilities”
Industry & Context.
Solve advanced computer science problems; Solve technical challenges
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proficient in algorithm development, Proficient in Java or a C-style programming language
Nice to Have
Interest in how indexes in databases work, Interest in Lucene, Interest in Multi-threaded systems, Interest in Performance profiling and optimization, Interest in Database management systems, Interest in Large codebases
What You'll Do.
Build and ship features
Evolve vector search capabilities
Design and optimize indexing subsystem
Write high-quality code
Work with scale and performance challenges
Integrate research and technologies
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work together with product managers; Promote new ideas; Take active part in feature discussions; Discuss ideas and challenge each other
Communication Scope
Good communication skills
Full 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. 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 Role: Do you like to solve advanced and complex computer science problems? We are looking for a backend engineer with a special interest in database indexes and algorithm development who likes to solve technical challenges and deliver high-quality code to join our newly formed Index team! You will be part of a brilliant, energetic, and fun team of engineers working on building core functionality for the graph database. You will be part of an international team based in Malmö, Sweden, and London, UK. What you will do: Build and ship features related to index, constraint and schema Evolve vector search capabilities to support graph, similarity search and GenAI use cases Design and optimize the indexing subsystem to support complex graph queries and a variety of workloads Write high-quality, testable, and efficien
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