Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Helius is a developer platform focused on building crypto-powered software on the Solana blockchain. The Staff Backend Engineer will own a core infrastructure system, set technical direction, make architectural decisions, and build high-performance products and services. The role also emphasizes production optimization, operational excellence, collaboration with engineering leadership, and mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- • 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
- • Deep Rust experience in a production, performance-critical environment
- • Experience with distributed systems, storage engines, or streaming infrastructure
- • Familiarity with profiling tools - flamegraphs, perf, valgrind
- • Interest in Solana, blockchain infrastructure, or real-time financial systems
- • On-call experience and operational ownership of production services
- Mix of large and small company experience strongly preferred - you've built the habits and can operate at both speeds
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Generous vacation
- Wellness budgets
- Support for learning and travel
- Remote-first flexibility with a fully distributed team
- Lead critical initiatives, influence architecture and product direction, and take on more responsibility as the company scales
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