Helius
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
North America
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
North America
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in North America.
What the employer says
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About the role
About Helius
Helius is a leading developer platform on the Solana blockchain, dedicated to inspiring and accelerating the creation of crypto-powered software. Customers like Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom use Helius to power their applications on Solana.
We’ve raised over $34m from Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, Foundation Capital, 6th Man Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Chapter One and angel investors including Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, and Balaji Srinivasan. Our team members have previously built mission-critical, scalable infrastructure at AWS, Coinbase, Stripe, Google, Digital Ocean, and more.
Read our Helius Manifesto to see how we work and what we value.
About the Role
We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to take ownership of one of our core systems - Gatekeeper, Data Streaming, Historical APIs, or Account Index. These are the foundational layers of Helius's infrastructure, operating at the intersection of extreme performance requirements and real-world scale. Each system sits in the critical path of the Solana ecosystem.
At this level, you're not just building - you're setting technical direction, making architectural decisions that shape the platform for years, and raising the bar for everyone around you. You'll work directly with founders and engineering leadership to define what we build and how we build it. Small team, enormous scope, and the expectation that you'll own your domain end-to-end.
What You'll Do
Own the technical direction for a core backend system - architecture, reliability, performance, and roadmap
Design and implement solutions to the hardest problems in your domain - distributed systems, storage engines, streaming pipelines, or edge infrastructure
Drive performance engineering across your system - profiling, benchmarking, and pushing latency and throughput to the limit
Set standards for operational excellence - observability, incident response, and making systems simpler and safer to operate
Partner with founders and engineering leadership on long-term technical strategy
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, drive technical consensus, and influence without authority
Identify and solve complex, ambiguous problems that span multiple systems
What You'll Bring
8+ years of backend engineering with a strong track record building large-scale, production-grade systems
Deep systems-level expertise - you operate comfortably at the layer where software meets hardware
Proficiency in Rust (strongly preferred) or equivalent systems programming language (C++, Go)
Demonstrated ability to own and evolve complex systems end-to-end, from architecture to production operations
Experience leading ambiguous, cross-team technical initiatives and driving them to completion
Performance engineering instincts - you've profiled hot paths, understood the root cause, and fixed it at the code level
High ownership, high intensity - you thrive in fast-moving environments and hold yourself to an exceptional standard
Prior exposure to engineering cultures that prioritize operational excellence, performance, and customer reliability at scale
Requirements
- ·8+ years of backend engineering with a strong track record building large-scale, production-grade systems
- ·Deep systems-level expertise - you operate comfortably at the layer where software meets hardware
- ·Proficiency in Rust (strongly preferred) or equivalent systems programming language (C++, Go)
- ·Demonstrated ability to own and evolve complex systems end-to-end, from architecture to production operations
- ·Experience leading ambiguous, cross-team technical initiatives and driving them to completion
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Helius, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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