{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"fc13fef3a3d11d61652d703d","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/fc13fef3a3d11d61652d703d","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/fc13fef3a3d11d61652d703d","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Backend","description":"About Helius\n\nHelius 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.\n\nWe’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.\n\nRead our Helius Manifesto to see how we work and what we value.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe'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.\n\nAt 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.\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\nDesign, build, and release novel, performance-sensitive products that transform the developer experience on Solana\n\nOptimize production systems - profiling, benchmarking, and improving latency and throughput\n\nCollaborate with staff engineers and founders on architectural and product decisions\n\nImprove operational excellence - observability, incident response, and making systems easier to run\n\nMentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar across the team\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n\n5+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale\n\nStrong systems-level intuition - you understand what's happening beneath the abstractions\n\nProficiency in Rust (strongly preferred), C++, or Go\n\nExperience debugging and optimizing latency-sensitive or high-throughput systems\n\nDemonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end with minimal direction\n\nHigh intensity, high ownership - you hold yourself to an exceptional standard\n\nPrior exposure to engineering cultures that prioritize operational excellence, reliability, and customer impact\n\nNice to Have\n\nDeep Rust experience in a production, performance-critical environment\n\nExperience with distributed systems, storage engines, or streaming infrastructure\n\nFamiliarity with profiling tools - flamegraphs, perf, valgrind\n\nInterest in Solana, blockchain infrastructure, or real-time financial systems\n\nOn-call experience and operational ownership of production services\n\nMix of large and small company experience strongly preferred - you've built the habits and can operate at both speeds\n\nWhy Helius?\n\nHigh-impact work: Your code will power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem, including Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom.\n\nSerious engineering: Build fast, reliable systems and user experiences across distributed infra, high-throughput backends, and modern frontend stacks.\n\nOwnership & growth: Lead critical initiatives, influence architecture and product direction, and take on more responsibility as the company scales.\n\nRemote-first flexibility: Work where you’re most effective with a flexible, fully distributed team.\n\nCompetitive comp & perks: Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel.\n\nMission-driven team: Join ambitious builders who move fast, take ownership, and are shaping the future of decentralized apps.","company":"Helius","rawCompany":"helius","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-22T10:55:17.230Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1299.07","title":"Blockchain Engineers","slug":"blockchain-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Engineer, Backend","description":"About Helius\n\nHelius 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.\n\nWe’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.\n\nRead our Helius Manifesto to see how we work and what we value.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe'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.\n\nAt 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. 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