Software Engineer - Design System
Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.
At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.
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:
Join our Design System team as a Front-end Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in crafting delightful user experiences for our users. We are passionate about innovation and building upon Neo4j, our native graph database. If you thrive in an environment where creativity meets technical excellence, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop Delightful User Experiences: Your primary focus will be to create elegant and user-friendly components that teams can use to enhance the user experience of our products.
- Research, Ideate, and Iterate: Think of the Design System as your playground, where you can explore new ideas, contribute to feature ideation, and bring your innovative concepts to life.
- Obsess Over Details: Attention to detail is at the core of our design philosophy. Get lost in pixels as you meticulously craft pixel-perfect interfaces.
- Ownership and Autonomy: Join our small and highly collaborative team where you'll have the autonomy to take ownership of features from ideation through release and maintenance. Your contributions will make a tangible impact on our product.
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Neo4j Browser, Aura and many more teams. Currently we have a portfolio of more than 7 user facing products.
- Continuously learn, experiment, and specialize in areas that pique your interest, contributing to both your personal growth and the team's success.
- Work with our stack that includes but not limited to TypeScript, React, Storybook and Style Dictionary
Qualifications:
- Proficiency in front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Angular or Vue.js).
- Strong attention to detail and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
- Ability to work independently and thrive in a flexible software development environment.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate on complex technical topics.
- Prior experience in front-end development, UI/UX design, or related roles.
- A desire to learn and contribute to the evolution of our Design System.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with design systems or component libraries.
- Familiarity with design tokens, and libraries like Style Dictionary.
- Familiarity with design tools such as Figma or Sketch.
- Previous exposure to database software, as contributor or user.
- Familiarity with monorepos.
If you are passionate about front-end development, obsessed with creating exceptional user experiences, and ready to make a meaningful impact within a collaborative team, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of our Design System and the Neo4j database.
More about our Design System at Neo4j.design
Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry across the globe, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.
- Neo4j is one of the fastest scaling technology companies in this industry. Well over $100M ARR and still rapidly growing.
- Raised biggest round of funding in all of database history ($325M Series F).
- Backed by world class investors like Google Ventures (GV), Neo4j has raised over $582M in funding and is currently valued at $2Bn. This puts them among the most well-funded database companies in history.
- 75% of Fortune 100 use Neo4j with more than 800 enterprise customers including Comcast, eBay, Adobe, Lyft, UBS, IBM, Volvo Cars and many more.
- Emil Eifrem (CEO) has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation and customer success.
- Countless awards in the industry. Massive Enterprises and individual developers/ data scientists love Neo4j. Strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
- A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact Study pegged Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all of the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.
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. We look forward to receiving your application.
Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core 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)
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