Helius is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own the systems that determine how customers adopt, upgrade, and pay for Helius, at the intersection of product, engineering, and revenue. The goal is to design and build intuitive foundations for billing, metering, pricing, and entitlements to accelerate the development of internet capital markets.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend/full-stack engineering experience with scalable APIs or distributed systems
- Experience building & maintaining billing systems in high-growth environments
- Proficient with database design, microservice architecture, and strongly-typed programming languages (e.g. Golang)
- Strong instincts around correctness, data integrity, and operational reliability
- Frontend development experience (React, TypeScript, and Next.js preferred)
- Prior startup and/or web3 experience
- Solana development experience
Responsibilities
- Design and build monetization-critical systems, including billing, metering, and entitlements
- Own backend logic powering free trials, upgrades, usage-based pricing, quotas, and upsell flows
- Collaborate with the Full-Stack team on features that directly impact revenue and adoption
- Ensure correctness, reliability, and auditability across pricing and billing systems
- Drive long-term architecture for metering, quota enforcement, and product enablement
- Move quickly, make strong product calls, and keep systems simple and resilient
Other
- Ability to connect engineering decisions to real revenue outcomes
- Comfort owning broad, ambiguous problem areas and driving clarity
- Understanding of web security best practices
- Remote-first flexibility
- Competitive comp & perks: Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel
