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Overview
Join Helius as a Staff Backend Engineer to own core systems on the Solana blockchain, driving technical direction and performance engineering in a remote-first environment.
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.
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
Why Helius?
- •High-impact work: Your code will power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem, including Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom.
- •Serious engineering: Build fast, reliable systems and user experiences across distributed infra, high-throughput backends, and modern frontend stacks.
- •Ownership & growth: Lead critical initiatives, influence architecture and product direction, and take on more responsibility as the company scales.
- •Remote-first flexibility: Work where you’re most effective with a flexible, fully distributed team.
- •Competitive comp & perks: Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel.
- •Mission-driven team: Join ambitious builders who move fast, take ownership, and are shaping the future of decentralized apps.
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