Helius
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
North America
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added 4 days ago
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still checked daily, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
North America
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
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 building the core infrastructure for Solana - empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Our mission is to accelerate the development of internet capital markets by making it easier, faster, and more intuitive to build on-chain.
Thousands of teams - from early-stage startups to industry leaders like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter - rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools to power their products. Backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, we’re a small, senior team obsessed with performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.
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
Design, build, and release novel, performance-sensitive products that transform the developer experience on Solana
Optimize production systems - profiling, benchmarking, and improving latency and throughput
Collaborate with staff engineers and founders on architectural and product decisions
Improve operational excellence - observability, incident response, and making systems easier to run
Mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar across the team
What You'll Bring
5+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale
Strong systems-level intuition - you understand what's happening beneath the abstractions
Proficiency in Rust (strongly preferred), C++, or Go
Experience debugging and optimizing latency-sensitive or high-throughput systems
Demonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end with minimal direction
High intensity, high ownership - you hold yourself to an exceptional standard
Prior exposure to engineering cultures that prioritize operational excellence, reliability, and customer impact
Nice to Have
Deep Rust experience in a production, performance-critical environment
Experience with distributed systems, storage engines, or streaming infrastructure
Requirements
- ·5+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale
- ·Strong systems-level intuition - you understand what's happening beneath the abstractions
- ·Proficiency in Rust (strongly preferred), C++, or Go
- ·Experience debugging and optimizing latency-sensitive or high-throughput systems
- ·Demonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end with minimal direction
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.
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