About the company
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.
Job Summary
What You'll Do
📍Architect and lead the development of ingestion, indexing, and retrieval systems across our archival infrastructure 📍Drive technical strategy for API performance, reliability, and scalability across high-throughput services 📍Design and optimize data models and query patterns for ClickHouse, Postgres, and RocksDB at scale 📍Lead system design discussions and make architectural decisions on caching, distributed data patterns, and performance trade-offs 📍Set standards for operational excellence, debugging methodologies, and performance profiling across production systems 📍Mentor senior engineers and elevate the team's technical capabilities 📍Partner with leadership on long-term technical roadmap and infrastructure investments 📍Identify and drive solutions to complex, ambiguous problems that span multiple systems
What You'll Bring
📍7+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of building large-scale, high-performance systems 📍Deep expertise in Rust (strongly preferred), C++, or equivalent systems programming languages 📍Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, and performance-critical infrastructure at scale 📍Expert-level knowledge of database internals, schema design, and optimization patterns for large datasets
The future of finance is here — whether you’re interested in blockchain, cryptocurrency, or remote web3 jobs, there’s a perfect role waiting for you.
